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.

Increased development of inflectional and non-manual behavior patterns presented with incorporation of selected aspects of Deaf culture and community within receptive and expressive conversations.

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. 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.

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

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

Overview of methods used to identify voices on the basis of their characteristic speech patterns.

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.

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.

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.

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.