LING6750 - Language and Cognition

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Language and Cognition
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
301
Section ID
LING6750301
Course number integer
6750
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Anna Papafragou
Description
This is a seminar on how language relates to perception and cognition. The seminar pays particular attention to the question of whether and how language might affect (and be affected by) other mental processes, how different languages represent the mental and physical world, and how children acquire language-general and language-specific ways of encoding human experience. The course incorporates cross-linguistic, cognitive and developmental perspectives on a new and rapidly changing research area.
Course number only
6750
Use local description
No

LING6500 - Topics in Natural-Language Syntax

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Topics in Natural-Language Syntax
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
301
Section ID
LING6500301
Course number integer
6500
Meeting times
M 1:45 PM-3:44 PM
Level
graduate
Description
Detailed study of topics in syntax and semantics, e.g., pronominalization, negation, complementation. Topics vary from term to term.
Course number only
6500
Use local description
No

LING6200 - Topics in Phonetics

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Topics in Phonetics
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
301
Section ID
LING6200301
Course number integer
6200
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-3:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Jianjing Kuang
Description
Topics in Phonetics
Course number only
6200
Use local description
No

LING5810 - Semantics I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Semantics I
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
401
Section ID
LING5810401
Course number integer
5810
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Florian Schwarz
Description
This course provides an introduction to formal semantics for natural language. The main aim is to develop a semantic system that provides a compositional interpretation of natural language sentences. We discuss various of the aspects central to meaning composition, including function application, modification, quantification, and binding, as well as issues in the syntax-semantics interface. The basic formal tools relevant for semantic analysis, including set theory, propositional logic, and predicate logic are also introduced.
Course number only
5810
Cross listings
LING3810401
Use local description
No

LING5740 - Neurolinguistics

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Neurolinguistics
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
LING
Section number only
401
Section ID
LING5740401
Course number integer
5740
Meeting times
R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Kathryn Schuler
Description
This course is an upper level undergraduate/graduate seminar in neurolinguistics. We will explore language in the brain through readings and discussions.
Course number only
5740
Cross listings
LING3740402
Use local description
No

LING5620 - Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
LING
Section number only
301
Section ID
LING5620301
Course number integer
5620
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Meredith J Tamminga
Description
This course provides students with the opportunity to hone their statistical, computational, and organizational skillsets while conducting original linguistic research on data gathered in continuing fieldwork in the speech community. Topics include forced alignment and vowel extraction, auditory and automated variable coding, the application of linear and logistic regression, and techniques for effective data visualization.
Course number only
5620
Use local description
No

LING5600 - Language Variation & Change

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Language Variation & Change
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING5600001
Course number integer
5600
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Marlyse Baptista
Description
Speech communities as a focus for the understanding of language evolution and change: language variation in time and space. The relationship between language structure and language use; between language change and social change. Populations as differentiated by age, sex, social class, race, and ethnicity, and the relationship of these factors to linguistic differentiation.
Course number only
5600
Use local description
No

LING5510 - Syntax I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Syntax I
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING5510001
Course number integer
5510
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Julie Legate
Description
A general introduction at the graduate level to the analysis of sentence structure. The approach taken is that of contemporary generative-transformational grammar.
Course number only
5510
Use local description
No

LING5500 - Introduction to Syntax

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Introduction to Syntax
Term
2024C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
401
Section ID
LING5500401
Course number integer
5500
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
graduate
Description
This course is an introduction to current syntactic theory, covering the principles that govern phrase structure (the composition of phrases and sentences), movement (dependencies between syntactic constituents), and binding (the interpretation of different types of noun phrases). Although much of the evidence discussed in the class will come from English, evidence from other languages will also play an important role, in keeping with the comparative and universalist perspective of modern syntactic theory.
Course number only
5500
Cross listings
LING2500401
Use local description
No