Fall 2025

Words as tools for discovering properties of the human mind. How words are formed of and form various units. Experiments exploring judgments about word interpretation.

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.

Familiarization with ASL and fingerspelling. Covers visual and gestural communication, comprehension through receptive language skills, basic conversational proficiency, general insights into American Deaf culture.

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

Study of human linguistic competence and technologies that simulate it. Phonetics, vibration and signal processing, speech recognition, neural networks.

A survey of topics in syntax.

Introduction to meaning in natural language and the methods from logic applied to its study.

Introduces the breadth of possible communication disorders with a particular focus on the duties of the professionals who assist people with these disorders. Explores both the diagnostic criteria and common interventions for disorders such as Language Impairment, stuttering, swallowing and dementia.

Study of language as a complex natural system that requires elaborate mental computation.

Experimental and theoretical aspects of how spoken and written language is produced and understood, learned during childhood, and affected by brain damage.

Linguistic principles which bear on the interpretation of government statutes and the litigation of legal disputes. Speech act theory; ambiguity; courtroom discourse; contracts and advertisements; jury instructions; the Plain Language Movement.

Principles of cognitive development, learning, and motivation applied to the development of literacy; includes tutoring a child 2 hours per week. Prerequisite: PSYC 336L.

Topics of current interest at the crossroads of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and linguistics.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

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

(LING-505abc) Exploration of the professional world of linguistics for first semestr graduate students.Graded CR/NC.

Preparation and presentation of M.A./Ph.D. screening papers; discussion of student research. Graded CR/NC.

Colloquium for presentation and discussion of student research paper. Graded CR/NC.

Professional development in phonetics and phonology. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Professional development in syntax and semantics. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Professional development in psycholinguistics. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Introduction to syntax ; transformational-generative syntax.

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

Original literature, focusing whenever possible on issues in comparative syntax and their implications for universal grammar. Course complements LING 530.

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

Theories of acquisition; sentence and discourse processing; language and thought.

Familiarization with articulation, transcription, production, and acoustic analysis of the speech sounds found in the world's languages. Also speech technology, perception, and disorders. Includes laboratory exercises.

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Graded CR/NC. Open only to doctoral students.

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

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.