Fall Term Schedule
Fall 2024
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LING 104-1
James Wamsley
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course investigates the relationship between language and culture at the interface of linguistics and anthropology. It examines the ways in which language reflects the perception of the world, ways of life and beliefs of its speakers, creates rituals and maintains social ties, and is used by people of different ages, genders, social classes, and ethnicities.We will discuss hypotheses that try to explain the nature of relationship between language and culture and then turn to a wide variety of topics which are relevant for both linguists and anthropologists. These include, for instance, kinship systems, language of perception (e.g. colors, spatial relations), politeness across languages and cultures, and writing systems.
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LING 105-2
Solveiga Armoskaite
MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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The course examines the use advertisers make of language in selling their products and how it affects our perceptions of the product and ourselves. The emphasis is on learning about linguistic practice. The course will appeal to those who are curious about the central role language plays in the art of persuasion presented as advertising. The course touches upon the structure of language only insofar as it is relevant for understanding advertising as a form of social action. The acquired linguistic tools will help us to understand how commercial messages achieve their effect, regardless of their origins: business, culture or grass roots movements.
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LING 110-1
Maya Abtahian
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 110-10
Jeremy Coburn
R 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 110-11
Jeremy Coburn
R 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 110-12
Jeremy Coburn
R 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 110-13
Jeremy Coburn
F 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 110-14
Jeremy Coburn
F 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 110-2
Jeremy Coburn
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 110-3
Maya Abtahian
F 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-4
Maya Abtahian
F 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-5
Maya Abtahian
F 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-6
Maya Abtahian
M 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-7
Maya Abtahian
M 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-8
Maya Abtahian
T 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section).
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LING 110-9
Jeremy Coburn
W 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section).
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LING 160-1
Deb Rossen-Knill
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course investigates and plays with the sentence, revealing its incredible potential to shape meaning, identity, voice, and our relationship with our readers. Drawing on work in functional linguistics (e.g., Aull, Hyland, Vande Kopple) and voice (e.g., Palacas, Young), we’ll see how different sentence-level choices create different meanings and effects. Assignments will regularly involve analyzing texts chosen and written by students, playing purposefully with language, and testing the effects of different choices. To aid analysis, generative AI (eg., GPT) and our imaginations will be used to generate different versions of the “same” text; An easy-to-use corpus analysis tool (AntConc) will help reveal textual patterns across large amounts of text. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of the sentence in a medium and context of their choice or address an interesting theoretical question about the sentence. This course is ideal for those interested in any kind of writing, writing education, or editing. Background in linguistics or grammar is not necessary. Open to undergraduates and graduate students.
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LING 205-1
Maya Abtahian
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the principles of linguistic variation and change, and to examine their practical application in the interdisciplinary subfields of historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Topics covered include diachrony and synchrony, genetic relations, the comparative method and language classification, sound change, morphological, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing, types of language contact, areal linguistics, and linguistic variation and social stratification. Prereq: LING 110
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LING 210-01
Joyce McDonough
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. Prerequisites: LING 110
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LING 210-02
Joyce McDonough
F 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 210-1.
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LING 210-03
Joyce McDonough
M 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 210-1.
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LING 210-04
Joyce McDonough
W 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210-1.
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LING 210-05
Joyce McDonough
W 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210-1.
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LING 210-06
Joyce McDonough
F 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 210-07
Joyce McDonough
R 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 210W-01
Joyce McDonough
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LING 210 or as LING 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. Prerequisites: LING 110
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LING 210W-02
Joyce McDonough
F 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1.
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LING 210W-03
Joyce McDonough
M 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1.
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LING 210W-04
Joyce McDonough
W 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210W-1
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LING 210W-05
Joyce McDonough
W 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1.
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LING 210W-06
Joyce McDonough
F 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 210W-07
Joyce McDonough
R 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
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LING 215-1
Nadine Grimm
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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About 2,000 of the world’s 7,000 languages are spoken in Africa. The diversity that characterizes these languages is exceptional, but little known to non-specialists. In this course, we will learn about the languages of Africa: the diversity of their linguistic structures (including famous features that are found nowhere else, e.g. click consonants), their history and the history of their speakers (from ca 10,000 BP to the (post-) colonial period), and their cultural contexts, among other topics. We will explore the wealth and diversity of African cultures through the lens of language. This course also incorporates a variety of other disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history, archaeology, human genetics, as well as the arts, to bring to light the variety of institutions, norms, and social practices produced by African societies which have historically been excluded from dominant cultural narratives. The focus will be on the role played by language in these institutions, norms and practices, and their representation. This course has no prerequisites and is open to anyone with an interest in African languages or the African continent.
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LING 217-1
Chung-Lin Yang
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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Overviews the nature and processing of human languages, including comparisons between language and animal communication systems, the biological bases of human language, and the cognitive mechanisms used in producing, understanding, and learning language. Prerequisite: BCSC 110, BCSC 111, or LING 110
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LING 225-1
Mary Moroney
MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course introduces students to the basics of the analysis of meaning in natural language. The first section focuses on devices that motivate certain forms to take on the meanings they have. The second section of the course moves on to discuss how meanings combine to form meanings for larger unitshow words and phrases combine to form sentences meanings. Using logical notation we illustrate the formal analysis of natural language meaning in terms of truth-conditions. We will discuss the basics of set theory, and investigate how meanings represented in these terms correlate with the syntactic and lexical structures of sentences of natural language. Students of graduate standing or those with strong formal backgrounds may consider starting with LING 265/465 instead, for which this course is ordinarily a prerequisite. This course counts towards satisfying the core course requirement for majors. Prerequisites: LING 110
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LING 225-3
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
R 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 225-1.
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LING 225-4
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
R 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Peer led workshop for LING 225-1.
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LING 225-5
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
F 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 225-1.
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LING 225-7
Mary Moroney
F 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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Peer-led workshop for LING 225-1.
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LING 226-01
Mary Moroney
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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The course examines the structure and definition of the linguistic unit 'word'' its typology and the relationship of the morphological component to other levels in the grammar. The course includes an introduction to analytical techniques with emphasis placed on an examination of data from a range of languages. The building blocks of words will be analyzed and topics such as affixation, reduplication and inflectional and derivational morphology will be covered. We will examine the properties of words and how they fit into the larger structure of linguistic knowledge, including the relationship between words and syntactic structure (ex., phrases and sentences) and the relationship between words and phonological structure (ex., phonological rules and prosodic structure).
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LING 241-01
Florian Jaeger
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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Explores the cognitive mechanisms used to speak and understand language, with a special focus on contextually situated language use. Studies the moment-by-moment processes underlying language production and comprehension, including how speakers choose words and phrases and how listeners understand them.
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LING 245-1
Jens Kipper
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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[Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy Phil 110 is recommended prior to taking this course) General nature of language and specific puzzles about language: the nature of truth and meaning, speech acts, reference, propositional attitudes, metaphor, understanding, interpretation, indeterminacy, etc.
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LING 260-1
Joanna Pietraszko
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This course picks up where LING 220 leaves off, though focusing more on topics in natural language syntax from a cross-linguistic perspective. The goal of the course is an approach to syntax that accounts for both language-particular as well as universal constraints on language. Among the topics studied are head and phrase movement, constraints on co-reference (anaphora), elipsis, and agreement (phi features).
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LING 260W-1
Joanna Pietraszko
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This course builds on LING 220, introducing more advanced topics in syntactic theory from a cross-linguistic perspective. The goals are (i) to gaina better understanding of what aspects of natural language syntax are universal and what aspects are subject to cross-linguistic variation, and ii) to develop a theorythat explains why the observed variation is exactly what is it. Some topics covered include: wh-movement, A-movement, case, ergativity, agreement (phi features), embedding, ellipsis, nominalization. Prerequisites: LING 110, LING 220 or permission of instructor.
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LING 261-01
Ash Asudeh
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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This syntactic theory course examines syntactic phenomena from the perspective of phrase structure and lexicalist grammar as opposed to transformational grammar. The course will examine and develop phrase structure grammar (specifically Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) approaches to standard syntactic problems, contrasting them where appropriate with transformational approaches. No background in non-transformational approaches will be assumed. This course can be taken as LIN 261 or as LIN 461 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. Prerequisites: LING 110 & LING 220 or instructor permission.
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LING 270-1
Nadine Grimm
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This class is addressed to anyone interested in fieldwork involving data collection of spoken language, including for instance linguists, anthropologists, or historians. Languages and cultures are currently disappearing on an unprecedented level due to the effects of globalization and displacement of people. Minority groups are often the most affected. As languages and cultures die, we lose entire knowledge systems and communities an integral part of their identity. This class introduces you to major techniques and tools of collecting and curating language data, using it for your research purposes, and making it useful to speech communities and other scholars. We will investigate the importance of language as a social convention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including, e.g., issues in intercultural research and ethics in fieldwork. Students will design their own projects, depending on their personal interests, and receive hands-on training in audio and video recording, time-aligned annotations, data management, and archiving. Prerequisites: LING 110 or permission from instructor.
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LING 270W-1
Nadine Grimm
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This class is addressed to anyone interested in fieldwork involving data collection of spoken language, including for instance linguists, anthropologists, or historians. Languages and cultures are currently disappearing on an unprecedented level due to the effects of globalization and displacement of people. Minority groups are often the most affected. As languages and cultures die, we lose entire knowledge systems and communities an integral part of their identity. This class introduces you to major techniques and tools of collecting and curating language data, using it for your research purposes, and making it useful to speech communities and other scholars. We will investigate the importance of language as a social convention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including, e.g., issues in intercultural research and ethics in fieldwork. Students will design their own projects, depending on their personal interests, and receive hands-on training in audio and video recording, time-aligned annotations, data management, and archiving. Prerequisites: LING 110 or permission from instructor.
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LING 282-01
C.M. Downey
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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This course covers advanced topics in computational linguistics, with a focus on the deployment of deep learning methods for advancing linguistic theory as well as the use of linguistic theory for designing deep learning models. Topics include phonotactic, morphological, and syntactic grammar induction as well as morphological, syntactic and semantic parsing. Prereq: LING 281/481.
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LING 391-1
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7:00PM - 7:00PM
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
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LING 395-1
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7:00PM - 7:00PM
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
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Fall 2024
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LING 110-6
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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LING 210-03
Joyce McDonough
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Peer led workshop for LING 210-1. |
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LING 210W-03
Joyce McDonough
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1. |
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LING 110-7
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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| Monday and Wednesday | |
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LING 210-01
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. Prerequisites: LING 110 |
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LING 210W-01
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LING 210 or as LING 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. Prerequisites: LING 110 |
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LING 282-01
C.M. Downey
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This course covers advanced topics in computational linguistics, with a focus on the deployment of deep learning methods for advancing linguistic theory as well as the use of linguistic theory for designing deep learning models. Topics include phonotactic, morphological, and syntactic grammar induction as well as morphological, syntactic and semantic parsing. Prereq: LING 281/481. |
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LING 105-2
Solveiga Armoskaite
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The course examines the use advertisers make of language in selling their products and how it affects our perceptions of the product and ourselves. The emphasis is on learning about linguistic practice. The course will appeal to those who are curious about the central role language plays in the art of persuasion presented as advertising. The course touches upon the structure of language only insofar as it is relevant for understanding advertising as a form of social action. The acquired linguistic tools will help us to understand how commercial messages achieve their effect, regardless of their origins: business, culture or grass roots movements. |
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LING 225-1
Mary Moroney
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This course introduces students to the basics of the analysis of meaning in natural language. The first section focuses on devices that motivate certain forms to take on the meanings they have. The second section of the course moves on to discuss how meanings combine to form meanings for larger unitshow words and phrases combine to form sentences meanings. Using logical notation we illustrate the formal analysis of natural language meaning in terms of truth-conditions. We will discuss the basics of set theory, and investigate how meanings represented in these terms correlate with the syntactic and lexical structures of sentences of natural language. Students of graduate standing or those with strong formal backgrounds may consider starting with LING 265/465 instead, for which this course is ordinarily a prerequisite. This course counts towards satisfying the core course requirement for majors. Prerequisites: LING 110 |
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LING 226-01
Mary Moroney
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The course examines the structure and definition of the linguistic unit 'word'' its typology and the relationship of the morphological component to other levels in the grammar. The course includes an introduction to analytical techniques with emphasis placed on an examination of data from a range of languages. The building blocks of words will be analyzed and topics such as affixation, reduplication and inflectional and derivational morphology will be covered. We will examine the properties of words and how they fit into the larger structure of linguistic knowledge, including the relationship between words and syntactic structure (ex., phrases and sentences) and the relationship between words and phonological structure (ex., phonological rules and prosodic structure). |
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LING 110-2
Jeremy Coburn
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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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| Tuesday | |
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LING 110-8
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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| Tuesday and Thursday | |
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LING 241-01
Florian Jaeger
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Explores the cognitive mechanisms used to speak and understand language, with a special focus on contextually situated language use. Studies the moment-by-moment processes underlying language production and comprehension, including how speakers choose words and phrases and how listeners understand them. |
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LING 245-1
Jens Kipper
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[Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy Phil 110 is recommended prior to taking this course) General nature of language and specific puzzles about language: the nature of truth and meaning, speech acts, reference, propositional attitudes, metaphor, understanding, interpretation, indeterminacy, etc. |
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LING 261-01
Ash Asudeh
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This syntactic theory course examines syntactic phenomena from the perspective of phrase structure and lexicalist grammar as opposed to transformational grammar. The course will examine and develop phrase structure grammar (specifically Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) approaches to standard syntactic problems, contrasting them where appropriate with transformational approaches. No background in non-transformational approaches will be assumed. This course can be taken as LIN 261 or as LIN 461 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. Prerequisites: LING 110 & LING 220 or instructor permission. |
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LING 260-1
Joanna Pietraszko
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This course picks up where LING 220 leaves off, though focusing more on topics in natural language syntax from a cross-linguistic perspective. The goal of the course is an approach to syntax that accounts for both language-particular as well as universal constraints on language. Among the topics studied are head and phrase movement, constraints on co-reference (anaphora), elipsis, and agreement (phi features). |
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LING 260W-1
Joanna Pietraszko
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This course builds on LING 220, introducing more advanced topics in syntactic theory from a cross-linguistic perspective. The goals are (i) to gaina better understanding of what aspects of natural language syntax are universal and what aspects are subject to cross-linguistic variation, and ii) to develop a theorythat explains why the observed variation is exactly what is it. Some topics covered include: wh-movement, A-movement, case, ergativity, agreement (phi features), embedding, ellipsis, nominalization. Prerequisites: LING 110, LING 220 or permission of instructor. |
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LING 110-1
Maya Abtahian
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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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LING 160-1
Deb Rossen-Knill
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This course investigates and plays with the sentence, revealing its incredible potential to shape meaning, identity, voice, and our relationship with our readers. Drawing on work in functional linguistics (e.g., Aull, Hyland, Vande Kopple) and voice (e.g., Palacas, Young), we’ll see how different sentence-level choices create different meanings and effects. Assignments will regularly involve analyzing texts chosen and written by students, playing purposefully with language, and testing the effects of different choices. To aid analysis, generative AI (eg., GPT) and our imaginations will be used to generate different versions of the “same” text; An easy-to-use corpus analysis tool (AntConc) will help reveal textual patterns across large amounts of text. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of the sentence in a medium and context of their choice or address an interesting theoretical question about the sentence. This course is ideal for those interested in any kind of writing, writing education, or editing. Background in linguistics or grammar is not necessary. Open to undergraduates and graduate students. |
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LING 217-1
Chung-Lin Yang
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Overviews the nature and processing of human languages, including comparisons between language and animal communication systems, the biological bases of human language, and the cognitive mechanisms used in producing, understanding, and learning language. Prerequisite: BCSC 110, BCSC 111, or LING 110 |
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LING 270-1
Nadine Grimm
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This class is addressed to anyone interested in fieldwork involving data collection of spoken language, including for instance linguists, anthropologists, or historians. Languages and cultures are currently disappearing on an unprecedented level due to the effects of globalization and displacement of people. Minority groups are often the most affected. As languages and cultures die, we lose entire knowledge systems and communities an integral part of their identity. This class introduces you to major techniques and tools of collecting and curating language data, using it for your research purposes, and making it useful to speech communities and other scholars. We will investigate the importance of language as a social convention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including, e.g., issues in intercultural research and ethics in fieldwork. Students will design their own projects, depending on their personal interests, and receive hands-on training in audio and video recording, time-aligned annotations, data management, and archiving. Prerequisites: LING 110 or permission from instructor. |
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LING 270W-1
Nadine Grimm
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This class is addressed to anyone interested in fieldwork involving data collection of spoken language, including for instance linguists, anthropologists, or historians. Languages and cultures are currently disappearing on an unprecedented level due to the effects of globalization and displacement of people. Minority groups are often the most affected. As languages and cultures die, we lose entire knowledge systems and communities an integral part of their identity. This class introduces you to major techniques and tools of collecting and curating language data, using it for your research purposes, and making it useful to speech communities and other scholars. We will investigate the importance of language as a social convention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including, e.g., issues in intercultural research and ethics in fieldwork. Students will design their own projects, depending on their personal interests, and receive hands-on training in audio and video recording, time-aligned annotations, data management, and archiving. Prerequisites: LING 110 or permission from instructor. |
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LING 104-1
James Wamsley
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This course investigates the relationship between language and culture at the interface of linguistics and anthropology. It examines the ways in which language reflects the perception of the world, ways of life and beliefs of its speakers, creates rituals and maintains social ties, and is used by people of different ages, genders, social classes, and ethnicities.We will discuss hypotheses that try to explain the nature of relationship between language and culture and then turn to a wide variety of topics which are relevant for both linguists and anthropologists. These include, for instance, kinship systems, language of perception (e.g. colors, spatial relations), politeness across languages and cultures, and writing systems. |
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LING 215-1
Nadine Grimm
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About 2,000 of the world’s 7,000 languages are spoken in Africa. The diversity that characterizes these languages is exceptional, but little known to non-specialists. In this course, we will learn about the languages of Africa: the diversity of their linguistic structures (including famous features that are found nowhere else, e.g. click consonants), their history and the history of their speakers (from ca 10,000 BP to the (post-) colonial period), and their cultural contexts, among other topics. We will explore the wealth and diversity of African cultures through the lens of language. This course also incorporates a variety of other disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history, archaeology, human genetics, as well as the arts, to bring to light the variety of institutions, norms, and social practices produced by African societies which have historically been excluded from dominant cultural narratives. The focus will be on the role played by language in these institutions, norms and practices, and their representation. This course has no prerequisites and is open to anyone with an interest in African languages or the African continent.
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LING 205-1
Maya Abtahian
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the principles of linguistic variation and change, and to examine their practical application in the interdisciplinary subfields of historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Topics covered include diachrony and synchrony, genetic relations, the comparative method and language classification, sound change, morphological, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing, types of language contact, areal linguistics, and linguistic variation and social stratification. Prereq: LING 110 |
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LING 210-04
Joyce McDonough
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210-1. |
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LING 210W-04
Joyce McDonough
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210W-1 |
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LING 110-9
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 210-05
Joyce McDonough
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Peer-led workshop for LING 210-1. |
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LING 210W-05
Joyce McDonough
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1. |
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LING 110-10
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 110-11
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 225-3
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
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Peer led workshop for LING 225-1. |
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LING 210-07
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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LING 210W-07
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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LING 110-12
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 225-4
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
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Peer led workshop for LING 225-1. |
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LING 110-13
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 110-3
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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LING 110-4
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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LING 210-06
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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LING 210W-06
Joyce McDonough
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. |
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LING 210-02
Joyce McDonough
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Peer led workshop for LING 210-1. |
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LING 210W-02
Joyce McDonough
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Peer led workshop for LING 210W-1. |
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LING 225-5
Mary Moroney; James Wamsley
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Peer-led workshop for LING 225-1. |
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LING 110-14
Jeremy Coburn
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-2 (lecture section). |
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LING 110-5
Maya Abtahian
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Peer-led workshop for LING 110-1 (lecture section). |
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LING 225-7
Mary Moroney
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Peer-led workshop for LING 225-1. |
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