Graduate Courses

The courses listed on this page are for Fall 2024. LING 59x courses are offered every academic quarter but not listed here.

If a course has the “Instructor Consent” enrollment restriction, please contact the instructor to request a Permission to Enroll (PTE) number. For LING 275, please contact both the instructor and the Graduate Student Affairs Officer.

Not every class is offered every quarter. To see if a class meets in the current quarter or future quarter in the current academic year, as well as the time and location, please go to the Linguistics Department’s Course Schedule page.

A number of courses, particularly proseminars, have content that varies from one offering to the next. Please see the pages below for descriptions.

Fall 2024

  • LING 200A - Phonological Theory I

    Instructor(s): Jonah Katz

    Lecture, four hours. Preparation: graduate linguistics student or grade of A in course 120A or equivalent course in phonology. Courses 200A and 201A form two-course survey of current research in phonological theory. Interaction of phonology with morphology and syntax, syllable structure, stress. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 200B - Syntactic Theory I

    Instructor(s): Ethan Poole

    Lecture, four hours. Preparation: graduate linguistics student or grade of A in course 120B or equivalent course in syntax. In-depth introduction to selected topics in theory of constituent structure and syntax of predicates, arguments, and grammatical relations. Topics include levels of representation, X-bar theory, case theory, thematic roles, the lexicon, grammatical function-changing rules, head-complement relations. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 200C - Semantic Theory I

    Instructor(s): Dylan Bumford

    Lecture, four hours. Overview of current results and research methods in linguistic semantics. Topics include generalized quantifiers and semantic universals, predicate argument structures, variable binding and pronominalization, formal semantic interpretation, syntax and LF, tense, ellipsis, and focus. Letter grading.

  • LING 204B - Speech Production

    Instructor(s): Margaret Cychosz

    Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 104 or 204A. Survey of topics in speech production research, especially as related to linguistic phonetics. Topics include physiology of vocal tract and models of speech production and articulatory/acoustic relations. Emphasis on use of laboratory methods such as aerodynamic transducers, electroglottography, static and electropalatography, electromagnetic articulography, and imaging techniques. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 260A - Seminar: Phonetics

    Instructor(s): Megha Sundara

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 261A - Seminar: Phonology

    Instructor(s): Claire Moore-cantwell

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 262A - Syntax Seminar

    Instructor(s): Michelle Yuan

    Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 264A - Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics

    Instructor(s): Timothy Hunter

    Seminar, three hours. Special topics may include child language, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, etc. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 265A - American Indian Linguistics Seminar

    Instructor(s): Pamela Munro

    Seminar, two hours; fieldwork, four hours. Presentation of research on American Indian linguistics. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 1 unit. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

  • LING 275 - Linguistics Colloquium

    Instructor(s): Megha Sundara

    Preparation: completion of requirements. Varied linguistic topics, generally presentations of new research by students, faculty, and visiting scholars. S/U grading.

  • LING 276 - Linguistics Colloquium

    Instructor(s): Megha Sundara

    Designed for graduate students. Same as course 275, but taken without credit by students not presenting a colloquium. S/U grading.

  • LING 403 - Practical Phonetics Training

    Instructor(s): Elise Bell

    Extensive practice in production, perception, and transcription of sounds from a wide range of languages. Concurrently scheduled with practical sections of course 103. S/U grading.

  • LING 422 - Practicum: Phonetic Data Analysis

    Instructor(s): Sun-ah Jun

    Designed for graduate students. Workshop in examination of phonetic data, such as sound spectrograms, oscillographic records, and computer output. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.

  • LING 444 - MA Thesis Preparation Seminar

    Instructor(s): Stefan Keine

    Seminar, two hours. Regular student presentations of MA thesis topics and progress, with discussion and criticism by other students and faculty. Presentations by faculty and guest speakers on topics relevant to professional development, such as abstract writing and conference presentations, preparing manuscripts for publication, curriculum vitae and personal websites, academic and non-academic careers in linguistics. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.