Spring 2020

Words as a gateway to the human mind. How words are stored, comprehended and retrieved. How words are constructed. Words and concepts. Words and social constructs. The processing and the acquisition of words in normal and atypical children and adults.

Discourse patterns among diverse social groups in institutional and interpersonal settings; interrelationships among language practices and gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity; social structures and cultural values as reflected in language policies and practices.

Empirical study of the sounds and structures of human language;syntax and semantics; language change; linguistic universals.

Language within cognitive science: speech physiology and acoustics, language acquisition, reading, language disorders, perception and mental representation of words, linguistic diversity and computer analysis of speech.

Study of human linguistic competence and technologies that simulate it. Grammar, parsing, text generation; semantics, pragmatics, sense disambiguation; phonetics, speech synthesis, speech recognition.

A survey of topics in phonetics and phonology.

Introduction to meaning in natural language and the methods from logic applied to its study. Prerequisite: LING 210.

Advanced study of topics in syntax.

Familiarization with the articulation and transcription of speech sounds. Also vocal tract anatomy, acoustics, speech technology, non-English sounds, perception. Includes laboratory exercises.

Introduction to modern neural network approaches to natural language processing, based on Deep Learning. Recursive and recurrent neural networks; backpropagation; Ngram models.

Introduction to speech synthesis and speech recognition technologies from both a phonetics point of view and a computational point of view.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of the honors thesis. Registration is restricted to honors students.

Traditional views of phonology; generative phonology; current developments in phonological research and theory.

Principles and comparison of modern theories of grammar with special reference to syntax.

Current linguistic approaches to the semantics of natural language; analysis of concepts of meaning and reference.

Topics in advanced formal phonology; theoretical issues in the interface of phonology with other areas of linguistics; literature study on themes of current theoretical relevance. Recommended Preparation LING 531ab.

Current issues in psycholinguistic theory.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.

Readings in phonetic theory and current research as the framework for a discussion-oriented class.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.