LINGUIST 1:
Introduction to Linguistics
This course introduces students to the cognitive organization of linguistic structure and the social nature of language use. We will investigate language as it is used in our everyday lives, highlighting both the variability and systematic nature of all levels of linguistic structure. In doing so, we will discover how to approach language from a scientific perspective, learn the fundamentals of linguistic analysis, and understand the foundational concepts of the field of Linguistics. Sample topics to be explored across a variety of languages include language and advertising, language change, dialect variation, and language and technology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 3:
Glamour of Grammar
In this course, we will dispel many a mystery of English grammar, often presented as a dull and dreary subject in schools: we will see that the words 'glamorous' and 'grammar' come from the same root meaning 'mysterious or occult' and we will ask: Why is there 'stupidity' but not 'smartity'? Why can we 'blacken' fish or 'whiten' teeth, but not 'pinken' or 'greenen' anything? Who makes up new words anyway? How do we put words together into meaningful sentences? And how do we understand the nuances of English without much direct instruction? While the focus of this course is on English grammar, we will also see that other languages possess grammars that are based on the same principles and constraints.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 5N:
What's Your Accent? Investigations in Acoustic Phonetics
Preference to freshmen. Phonetic variation across accents of English; experimental design; practical experience examining accents of seminar participants; acoustic analysis of speech using Praat.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 10N:
Experimental Phonetics
Everyday, we face variation in language. As readers, we see words printed in different fonts, sizes, and typefaces, typically static on a page. As listeners, we hear a speech signal riddled with variation. We are exposed to words, but a single word is produced differently each time it is uttered. These words stream by listeners at a rate of about 5 syllables per second, further complicating the listeners' task. How listeners map a speech signal into meaning despite massive variation is an issue central to linguistic theory. The field of experimental phonetics investigates how listeners take words that often vary drastically and understand them as quickly and adeptly as they do. This class introduces students to acoustic and auditory phonetics. As a class, we will carry out a project in experimental phonetics aimed at understanding how different realizations of words are able to be understood by listeners. Throughout the course, students will read background literature, become familiar with the Stanford Linguistics Lab, and learn to use software integral to the design, data collection, and data analysis of experiments. Each week, we will have two meetings,one in a seminar setting and one in the lab.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 21N:
Linguistic Diversity and Universals: The Principles of Language Structure
The human capacity for language is able to support a staggering diversity of languages. But is anything possible in a human language, and is there anything that is common to all languages? Looking past the vast surface differences, linguists have discovered deep commonalities among the languages of the world as well as strict limits on the observed variation and on what a possible human language is. In this seminar, we will seek to uncover the building blocks of language and the laws that govern their interactions. Our goal will be to reach an understanding of the ways in which languages are systematically alike and different, as well as of the nature of language in general. We will investigate a variety of topics, including crosslinguistic differences and similarities with respect to word order, the grammatical structure of questions, and how languages mark subjects and objects. We will explore the structure of both sentences and words, identifying and studying their fundamental properties. In this pursuit, we will rely on data from a range of languages, such as English, Navajo, Zulu, and many others. This seminar will teach you how to view language as an object of scientific study, introducing you to central concepts and methods of linguistics (with a particular emphasis on syntax) along the way. It will give you the tools to describe and analyze even unfamiliar languages, and will teach you to construct explicit hypotheses about how language works and to test them empirically. There are no prerequisites for this course and no experience with linguistics will be assumed; the course is Socratically taught and there will be no textbook.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 35:
Minds and Machines (PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 1)
(Formerly SYMSYS 100). An overview of the interdisciplinary study of cognition, information, communication, and language, with an emphasis on foundational issues: What are minds? What is computation? What are rationality and intelligence? Can we predict human behavior? Can computers be truly intelligent? How do people and technology interact, and how might they do so in the future? Lectures focus on how the methods of philosophy, mathematics, empirical research, and computational modeling are used to study minds and machines. Undergraduates considering a major in symbolic systems should take this course as early as possible in their program of study.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 36:
The Arabic Language and Culture (LINGUIST 270)
(Formerly AMELANG 36). Arabic language from historical, social, strategic, and linguistic perspectives. History of the Arabic language and the stability of classical Arabic over the last 15 centuries. Why the functionality of classical Arabic has not changed as Latin, Old English, and Middle English have. Social aspects of the Arabic language, Ferguson¿s notion of diglossia. The main varieties of Arabic, differences among them, and when and where they are spoken. Role of Arabic and culture in current world politics, culture, and economy. Linguistic properties of Arabic such as root-based morphology, lexical ambiguity, and syntactic structure relating it to current linguistic theories.
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 40S:
Lab in Scientific and Critical Thinking: The Emergence of Language
This course introduces students to the basic skills of critical thinking and provides a venue to apply these skills to a controversial topic: the emergence of human language. We discuss the following questions: what is language? Do animals have it? How did humans begin to talk? How do children learn to speak? In discussing these questions, we cover the basics of the scientific method and critical thinking. Students practice how to read scientific articles, find their main claims, differentiate between factual and theoretical claims, assess the evidence supporting the factual claims, and critically evaluate the arguments. Students practice small scale data collection, hypothesis formation, and hypothesis testing as part of their final project. We discuss the problems that researchers face in each of these phases of research.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 44N:
Living with Two Languages
Preference to freshmen. The nature of bi- and multilingualism with emphasis on the social and educational effects in the U.S. and worldwide, in individual versus society, and in child and adult. The social, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and neurological consequences of bilingualism. Participation in planning and carrying out a research project in language use and bilingualism.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 47N:
Languages, Dialects, Speakers
Preference to freshmen. Variation and change in languages from around the world; language and thought; variation in sound patterns and grammatical structures; linguistic and social structures of variation; how languages differ from one another and how issues in linguistics connect to other social and cultural issues; the systematic study of language.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 50Q:
Life and Death of Words (CSRE 50Q, ENGLISH 50Q, FEMGEN 50Q, NATIVEAM 50Q)
In this course, we explore the world of words: their creation, evolution, borrowing, change, and death. Words are the key to understanding the culture and ideas of a people, and by tracing the biographies of words we are able to discern how the world was, is, and might be perceived and described. We trace how words are formed, and how they change in pronunciation, spelling, meaning, and usage over time. How does a word get into the dictionary? What do words reveal about status, class, region, and race? How is the language of men and women critiqued differently within our society? How does slang evolve? How do languages become endangered or die, and what is lost when they do? We will visit the Facebook Content Strategy Team and learn more about the role words play in shaping our online experiences. Together, the class will collect Stanford language and redesign the digital dictionary of the future. Trigger Warning: Some of the subject matter of this course is sensitive and may cause offense. Please consider this prior to enrolling in the course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 51S:
Language, Society, and Media
How do people use language to construct identities and achieve interactional goals? How is that language use represented, circulated, and discussed in the media? This course will explore the way that language operates in society with a particular focus on popular and new media. The media, as both a platform for the display and dissemination of linguistic creativity as well as a site for explicit commentary about language, is ripe for analysis of both language use and language attitudes. To do this, we'll examine specific contexts: how public figures, actors, and corporations use language in movies, television, and advertising, and how individuals use language in new media (e.g. YouTube) and on social media (e.g. Twitter). We'll discuss the function of linguistic variation in the construction, recognition, and circulation of social types and conventionalized notions about language.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 52N:
Spoken Sexuality: Language and the Social Construction of Sexuality (FEMGEN 52N)
The many ways language is used in the construction of sexuality and sexual identity. How language is used as a resource for performing and perceiving sexual identity. Drawing on linguistic analyses of pronunciation, word choice, and grammar, questions such as: Is there a gay accent? Why isn't there a lesbian accent? How do transgendered people modify their linguistic behavior when transitioning? How are unmarked (heterosexual) identities linguistically constructed? Sexuality as an issue of identity, as well as of desire. Iconic relations between elements of language such as breathy voice quality and high pitch, and aspects of desire such as arousal and excitement. How language encodes ideologies about sexuality; how language is used to talk about sexuality in public discourses about gay marriage and bullying, as well as in personal narratives of coming out. How language encodes dominant ideologies about sexuality, evident in labels for sexual minorities as well as terminology for sex acts. Discussions of readings, explorations of how sexuality is portrayed in popular media, and analyses of primary data. Final research paper on a topic of student choice.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 53N:
Language and Adolescence
Adolescents are arguably the most creative age group in our society. They are the leaders in linguistic change, introducing innovations that eventually spread to the entire population. Not only do adolescents create new speech styles such as "valley girl" and "cholo", and new forms such as the quotative "I'm like", they also accelerate the phonetic changes that differentiate regional and ethnic dialects. This seminar will explore the diversity and creativity of adolescent language, and the role of adolescents in linguistic and social change.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 63N:
The Language of Comics
This seminar will explore language as represented in cartoons and comics such as Bizarro, Dilbert and Zits, how we interpret it, and why we find comics funny. We will explore and analyze language play, genderspeak and teenspeak; peeving about usage; new and spreading usages.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
LINGUIST 64Q:
These languages were here first: A look at the indigenous languages of California (ANTHRO 64Q, NATIVEAM 64Q)
Stanford was built on land originally inhabited by the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, and Native American students have always held an important place in the university community from the writer and journalist John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) who graduated in 1894 to current enrolments of over three hundred students who represent over fifty tribes. Two hundred years ago, the Muwekma language was one of a hundred languages that made California one of the most linguistically-diverse places on earth. Today, less than half of these languages survive but many California Indian communities are working hard to maintain and revitalize them. This is a familiar pattern globally: languages around the world are dying at such a rapid rate that the next century could see half of the world's 6800 languages and cultures become extinct unless action is taken now. Focusing especially on California, this course seeks to find out how and why languages die; what is lost from a culture when that occurs; and how `sleeping¿ languages might be revitalized. We will take a field trip to a Native American community in northern California to witness first-hand how one community is bringing back its traditional language, songs, dances, and story-telling. We will learn from visiting indigenous leaders and linguistic experts who will share their life, language, and culture with the class. Through weekly readings and discussion, we will investigate how languages can be maintained and revitalized by methods of community- and identity-building, language documentation and description, the use of innovative technologies, writing dictionaries and grammars for different audiences, language planning, and data creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination. Finally, the course will examine ethical modes of fieldwork within endangered-language communities.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 65:
African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21, CSRE 21)
The English vernacular spoken by African Americans in big city settings, and its relation to Creole English dialects spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The history of expressive uses of African American English (in soundin' and rappin'), and its educational implications. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 66:
Vernacular English and Reading (LINGUIST 266)
Discusses some of the literature on the relation between use of vernacular English varieties (e.g. African American Vernacular English, Chicano English) and the development of literacy (especially in Standard English). But our primary focus is on improving the reading skills of African American and Latino students in local schools through the Reading Road program developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Students must commit to tutoring one or more elementary students weekly, using the program. L65 AAVE recommended, but not required.
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 4-5
LINGUIST 83N:
Translation
Preference to Freshman. What is a translation? The increased need for translations in the modern world due to factors such as tourism and terrorism, localization and globalization, diplomacy and treaties, law and religion, and literature and science. How to meet this need; different kinds of translation for different purposes; what makes one translation better than another; why some texts are more difficult to translate than others. Can some of this work be done by machines? Are there things that cannot be said in some languages?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 90:
Teaching Spoken English
Practical approach to teaching English to non-native speakers. Teaching principles and the features of English which present difficulties. Preparation of lessons, practice teaching in class, and tutoring of non-native speaker.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 105:
Phonetics (LINGUIST 205A)
Phonetics is the systematic study of speech. In this class, we will learn about the physical gestures and timing involved in the articulation of spoken language and about the resulting acoustic signal that is decoded into linguistic units by the human auditory system. The class is structured into two parts: A practical lab component, and a class component. This course highlights both the complexity of the physical nature of producing spoken language, and the highly variable acoustic signal that is interpreted by listeners as language. By the end of this course, you should: (1) Understand the process of preparing an utterance to articulating it; (2) Understand the basic acoustic properties of speech; (3) Provide detailed phonetic transcriptions of speech; (4) Produce and understand the gestures involved in nearly all of the world¿s speech sounds, and (5) Understand the ways this knowledge can be used to advance our understanding of spoken language understanding by humans and machines.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SMA
LINGUIST 106:
Introduction to Speech Perception
Basics of acoustic phonetics and audition. What do listeners perceive when they perceive speech. Examine current research including: the categorical perception of speech, cross-language speech perception, infant speech perception. Theoretical questions of interest to speech perception researchers and experimental methods used in the field.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 110:
Introduction to Phonology
Introduction to the sound systems of the world's languages, their similarities and differences. Theories that account for the tacit generalizations that govern the sound patterns of languages.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 112:
Seminar in Phonology (LINGUIST 212A)
Topics vary each year. Previous topics include variation in the phonology of words according to their contexts within larger expressions and the place of these phenomena in a theory of grammar. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 116:
Morphology
A survey of words including their structures, pronunciations, meanings, and syntactic possibilities in a wide sampling of languages to provide a laboratory for investigating the nature of morphology.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 120:
Introduction to Syntax
Grammatical constructions, primarily English, and their consequences for a general theory of language. Practical experience in forming and testing linguistic hypotheses, reading, and constructing rules.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 121A:
The Syntax of English
Course description: A data-driven introduction to the study of generative syntax through an in-depth investigation of the sentence structure of English. Emphasis is on central aspects of English syntax, but the principles of theory and analysis extend to the study of the syntax of other languages. The course focuses on building up syntactic argumentation skills via the collective development of a partial formal theory of sentence structure, which attempts to model native speaker knowledge. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics and the WAY-FR requirement. Prerequisites: none (can be taken before or after Linguistics 121B). The discussion section is mandatory.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 121B:
Crosslinguistic Syntax
Course description: A data-driven introduction to the study of syntax through the investigation of a diverse array of the world's languages, including but not limited to English. Emphasis is on understanding how languages are systematically alike and different in their basic sentence structure. The course focuses on building up syntactic argumentation skills via the collective development of a partial formal theory of sentence structure, which attempts to model native speaker knowledge. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics and the WAY-FR requirement. Prerequisites: none (can be taken before or after Linguistics 121A). The discussion section is mandatory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 124:
Introduction to Lexical Function Grammar (LINGUIST 224)
Presentation of a formal model of grammar designed to allow precise, computationally tractable descriptions of cross-linguistic variation in syntactic structure. Concentration on the formal properties of the model, its flexibility in teasing out language specific and possibly universal characteristics of natural languages and the place of syntax as a component within a larger linguistic architecture. Prerequisite: 120 or consent of instructor
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 130A:
Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 230A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include ambiguity, vagueness, presupposition, intonational meaning, and Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Applications to issues in politics, the law, philosophy, advertising, and natural language processing. Those who have not taken logic, such as PHIL 150 or 151, should also enroll in 130C. Pre- or corequisite: 120, 121, consent of instructor, or graduate standing in Linguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 130B:
Introduction to Lexical Semantics
Introduction to basic concepts and issues in the linguistic study of word meaning. The course focuses on the core semantic properties and internal organization of the four major word classes in natural languages: nouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs. This course draws on material from English and other languages to illustrate the range of word meanings found across languages and to investigate possible word meanings. Prerequisites: Linguist 1 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. Linguist 130A is not a prerequisite for this course.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 130C:
Logic Laboratory (LINGUIST 230E)
Typically taken in conjunction with 130A/230A.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 134:
Seminar on Language and Deception (PSYCH 134)
Deceptive, exploitative, and other noncooperative uses of language. How is language used to deceive or exploit? Where are these techniques practiced and why? What are the personal, ethical, and social consequences of these practices? Prerequisite: 131, LINGUIST 1, or PHIL 181.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 134A:
The Structure of Discourse: Theory and Applications (LINGUIST 234)
In this course we will address the structure of language above the sentence concentrating initially on: nn(1) defining the minimal units of discourse structuren(2) recursive rules of combination of minimal units (i.e. discourse ¿syntax¿)n(3) representations of discourse level phenomenan(4) the nature and structure of spoken and written formal and informal discourse genres and Speech events in English and other languages including stories, explanations, literary works etc. on the one hand, and socially constructed occasions of speaking such as classes, doctor patient interactions, and informal conversation on the other.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 140:
Language Acquisition I (LINGUIST 240)
Processes of language acquisition in early childhood; stages in development; theoretical issues and research questions. Practical experience in data collection. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics if requested.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 141:
Language and Gesture
History of work on gesture, gestural systems associated with particular languages/cultures, and with specific activities - music, sports, traffic management, stock exchanges, etc. Examination of how gesture is represented in painting and animation, and the role it plays in early adult-child interaction.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 142:
Heritage Languages (LINGUIST 242)
The linguistic and cultural properties of Heritage languages, which are partially acquired and supplanted by a dominant language in childhood. Topics: Syntactic, phonological and morphological properties of heritage languages, implications from experimental HL research for language universals, cultural vs. linguistic knowledge, the role of schooling in HL competence, influence of the dominant language on the HL, and pedagogical issues for HL learners in the classroom.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 143:
Sign Languages
The linguistic structure of sign languages. How sign languages from around the world differ, and what properties they share. Accents and dialects in sign languages. How sign languages are similar to and different from spoken languages. How and why sign languages have emerged.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 145:
Introduction to Psycholinguistics (PSYCH 140)
How do people do things with language? How do we go from perceiving the acoustic waves that reach our ears to understanding that someone just announced the winner of the presidential election? How do we go from a thought to spelling that thought out in a sentence? How do babies learn language from scratch? This course is a practical introduction to psycholinguistics -- the study of how humans learn, represent, comprehend, and produce language. The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of both the research methodologies used in psycholinguistic research and many of the well-established findings in the field. Topics covered will include visual and auditory recognition of words, sentence comprehension, reading, discourse and inference, sentence production, language acquisition, language in the brain, and language disorders. Students will conduct a small but original research project and gain experience with reporting and critiquing psycholinguistic research.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 148:
Language of Advertising
A good ad takes the language we all share and manipulates it in creative, sometimes unique ways to influence our thoughts and our behavior. This course explores the range of techniques that advertisers use to express propositions that we consumers will notice, enjoy, and accept. Because advertising is quick to pick up on new trends, tracing the changes over the past century will allow us to re-experience the huge shifts in culture and media that have happened since then. The most effective advertisers understand us really well. Their choice of words, structure, image, and sometimes sound together form a careful composition. By taking apart some great past ads, we'll indirectly be looking at ourselves, as seen by the advertiser. Many of the techniques in ads are adapted from our own normal linguistic behavior. For example, think of how you adjust your vocabulary and tone to the person you're talking to, whether a friend, a professor, or a parent. This lecture course will include weekly input from students, who will present examples to form the basis for discussion and discovery.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
LINGUIST 150:
Language and Society
How language and society affect each other. Class, age, ethnic, and gender differences in speech. Prestige and stigma associated with different ways of speaking and the politics of language. The strategic use of language. Stylistic practice; how speakers use language to construct styles and adapt their language to different audiences and social contexts. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units to be eligible for Ways credit
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 152:
Sociolinguistics and Pidgin Creole Studies (LINGUIST 252)
Introduction to pidgins and creoles, organized around the main stages in the pidgin-creole life cycle: pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. Focus is on transformations in the English language as it was transported from Britain to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Resultant pidginized and creolized varieties such as Nigerian Pidgin English, Chinese Pidgin English, New Guinea Tok Pisin, Suriname Sranan, and the creole continua of Guyana, Jamaica, and Hawaii. Also French, Dutch, Portugese, Chinook, Motu, and Sango.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 153:
Language, Power & Politics
The integral role language plays in politics; how power operates in linguistic practices and political interaction. Critical examination of how language is used to articulate, maintain and subvert relations of power in society, emphasizing language in the media, the political rhetoric associated with war, and the construction of `truth¿ in politics. The role of ethnographic analysis in aiding sociolinguistic understandings of how social actors use and (re)interpret political language.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 155:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AFRICAAM 121X, AMSTUD 121X, ANTHRO 121A, CSRE 121X, EDUC 121)
Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 156:
Language and Gender (FEMGEN 156X)
The role of language in the construction of gender, the maintenance of the gender order, and social change. Field projects explore hypotheses about the interaction of language and gender. No knowledge of linguistics required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 157:
Sociophonetics (LINGUIST 257)
The study of phonetic aspects of sociolinguistic variation and the social significance of phonetic variation. Acoustic analysis of vowels, consonants, prosody, and voice quality. Hands-on work on collaborative research project. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 159:
American Dialects
What is a dialect, and who speaks one? This course will focus on the fundamentals of linguistic study and dialectology through examinations of regional, social and ethnic dialects in the United States. The course will examine dialect variation on many linguistic levels, from variation in individual words (pop v. soda) to variation in how vowels are pronounced. Historical development of U.S. dialects, linguistic change, perceptual dialectology, and prestige and stigma of dialects will be discussed. Students will participate in real variation research to gain experience with quantitative data in examining the influence of social factors on dialect variation.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 160:
Introduction to Language Change
Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 162:
History Through Language
What we can learn about the human past through human language, especially where proper historical records are absent. Studying population migrations through language spread. Different types of change in different social environments: grammatical "simplification" of imperial languages vs. complexity of tribal languages. Effects of contact on languages. Methods for reconstructing linguistic past: comparative method, linguistic paleontology, computational phylogenetic methods.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 163A:
Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (ANTHRO 163A, ANTHRO 263A, LINGUIST 263, NATIVEAM 163)
Languages around the world are dying at such a rapid rate that the next century could see half of the world's 6800 languages and cultures become extinct unless action is taken now. This course looks at how and why languages die, and what is lost from a culture when that occurs. We will investigate how this trend can be reversed by methods of language documentation and description, the use of innovative technologies, multimodal fieldwork, writing dictionaries and grammars for different audiences, language planning, and data creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination. We will focus on a number of current programs around the world to revitalize languages. Finally, the course will examine ethical modes of fieldwork within endangered language communities, and the possibilities of successful collaborations and capacity building, focusing especially on Northern California Indian peoples and their languages.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 167:
Languages of the World
The diversity of human languages, their sound systems, vocabularies, and grammars. Tracing historical relationships between languages and language families. Parallels with genetic evolutionary theory. Language policy, endangered languages and heritage languages. Classification of sign languages.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 171:
Iberian Languages: Structure, Variation & Context
The course will center on Iberian languages with a special focus on Catalan. We will consider the relation between language structure and other factors, such as language variation in space and time, and sociological and political factors. Topics will include a contrastive analysis of selected features of Iberian languages, a survey of dialectal variation in some of the languages of the area and of their external linguistic history.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 173:
The Structure of Russian (LINGUIST 273)
A synchronic overview of contemporary standard Russian, including its sound system, word formation and grammatical structure. Emphasis is on problems presented by Russian for current linguistic theory. The acquisition of Russian as a first language.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 180:
From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 280)
Extracting meaning, information, and structure from human language text, speech, web pages, genome sequences, social networks. Methods include: string algorithms, edit distance, language modeling, the noisy channel, naive Bayes, inverted indices, collaborative filtering, PageRank. Applications such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, text classification, social network models, chatbots, genomic sequence alignment, spell checking, speech processing, recommender systems. Prerequisite: CS103, CS107, CS109.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 182:
Computational Theories of Syntax (LINGUIST 282)
Salient features of modern syntactic theories, including HPSG, LFG, and TAG, motivated by computational concerns. Impact of work within these frameworks on the design of algorithms in computational linguistics, and its influence in both linguistics and computer science. Topics include: notions of unification; unification algorithms and their relation to linguistic theory; agenda-driven chart processing for analysis and synthesis; the interface with morphology, the lexicon, and semantics; and applications, notably machine translation.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 183:
Programming and Algorithms for Natural Language Processing
Construction of computer programs for linguistic processes such as string search, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis and generation, and simple machine translation. Emphasis is on the algorithms that have proved most useful for solving such problems.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
LINGUIST 184:
Syntactic Theory and Implementation (SYMSYS 184)
Analysis and implementation of grammatical phenomena of English. Introduction to a theory of formal grammar, and its computational realization. Practical experience in forming linguistic hypotheses and testing them via implementation using state-of-the-art language technology.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 185:
Writing Systems in a Digital Age (LINGUIST 284A)
Introduction to the variety of writing systems and their behaviors. Classification of all existing scripts as alphabetic, syllabic, ideographic; unifying and differentiating features within each group. How writing captures human language in various ways. The development of the alphabet, from ancient Semitic scripts to modern times. How writing systems are extended to additional languages. Chinese writing, its characteristics and sphere of influence. Japanese writing as a hybrid system that includes Chinese. Korean writing as an ideally designed script. The Indian system of writing as the foundation of numerous Asian syllabic scripts. Unicode as global standard for encoding text in all languages. Font technology: the emulation of human writing in the digital realm. nBasic knowledge of phonetics recommended. Knowledge of foreign languages helpful.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 188:
Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U)
Project-oriented class focused on developing systems and algorithms for robust machine understanding of human language. Draws on theoretical concepts from linguistics, natural language processing, and machine learning. Topics include lexical semantics, distributed representations of meaning, relation extraction, semantic parsing, sentiment analysis, and dialogue agents, with special lectures on developing projects, presenting research results, and making connections with industry. Prerequisites: one of LINGUIST 180, CS 124, CS 224N, CS224S, or CS221; and logical/semantics such as LINGUIST 130A or B, CS 157, or PHIL150
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 191:
Linguistics and the Teaching of English as a Second/Foreign Language (LINGUIST 291)
Methodology and techniques for teaching languages, using concepts from linguistics and second language acquisition theory and research. Focus is on teaching English, but most principles and techniques applicable to any language. Optional 1-unit seminar in computer-assisted language learning.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 192:
Language Testing (LINGUIST 292A)
Performance with language (speaking, reading, writing, listening, translating or interpreting) is used to measure a person's proficiency or achievement level in the language. Language performance is also used to measure other human characteristics, including psycho-social states and traits. The course will review basic methods in language measurement and cover their use as applied in education, psychology, and commerce. Topics include both traditional and automatic methods for assessing speaking, reading, writing, affect, and language disorders. Students will develop, apply, and evaluate a language test.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 195A:
Undergraduate Research Workshop
Designed for undergraduates beginning or working on research projects in linguistics. Participants present and receive feedback on their projects and receive tips on the research and writing process.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
LINGUIST 196:
Introduction to Research for Undergraduates
Introduction to linguistic research via presentations by Stanford linguistics faculty and graduate students. Open to undergraduate students interested in linguistics. Required for linguistics majors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 197A:
Undergraduate Research Seminar
Senior capstone seminar. Joint readings in an annually varying topic, exploring the implications and importance of linguistic research for other domains of knowledge or practice.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 9 units total)
LINGUIST 198:
Honors Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 199:
Independent Study
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 200:
Foundations of Linguistic Theory
Theories that have shaped contemporary linguistics; recurrent themes and descriptive practice. Strong background in Linguistics or permission of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 204:
Philosophy of Linguistics (PHIL 369, SYMSYS 204)
Philosophical issues raised by contemporary work in linguistics. Topics include: the subject matter of linguistics (especially internalism vs. externalism), methodology and data (especially the role of quantitative methods and the reliance on intuitions), the relationship between language and thought (varieties of Whorfianism and anti-Whorfianism), nativist arguments about language acquisition, and language evolution.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 205A:
Phonetics (LINGUIST 105)
Phonetics is the systematic study of speech. In this class, we will learn about the physical gestures and timing involved in the articulation of spoken language and about the resulting acoustic signal that is decoded into linguistic units by the human auditory system. The class is structured into two parts: A practical lab component, and a class component. This course highlights both the complexity of the physical nature of producing spoken language, and the highly variable acoustic signal that is interpreted by listeners as language. By the end of this course, you should: (1) Understand the process of preparing an utterance to articulating it; (2) Understand the basic acoustic properties of speech; (3) Provide detailed phonetic transcriptions of speech; (4) Produce and understand the gestures involved in nearly all of the world¿s speech sounds, and (5) Understand the ways this knowledge can be used to advance our understanding of spoken language understanding by humans and machines.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 205B:
Advanced Phonetics
In this course, we will read and discuss literature relating broadly to issues of attention in speech perception. This course will illuminate the complexity of speech perception, identify where we are as a field in understanding human behavior with respect to speech perception, pinpoint specific areas of research that might be informed by considering attention, and to understand the impact an attentional component in current models would have on the structure and organization of language and on our current understanding of linguistic experience.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 207:
Seminar in Phonetics: The perception and recognition of clear and casual speech.
Through readings and discussion, we will focus on two questions in this seminar:n(1) Is the balance of top-down versus bottom-up information different when processing careful vs. casual speech?n(2) What provides more information to a listener - Half of a clearly-articulated word, or an entire reduced word?nThis is not a project-based seminar, but the seminar is linked to an ongoing research project, and we will use that project to ground how a researcher might go about addressing the above questions. We will refer to our in-progress project to provide concrete examples of (a) testable, theoretically-grounded hypotheses, (b) appropriately matched methods/design, (c) benefits/costs of different types of statistical methods, and (d) supported vs. speculative accounts. The seminar is heavily based on reading and discussion, but will be supplemented by the practical issues associated with a related project. At the end of the seminar, students will have a basic understanding of the literature related to the topic, what gaps/inconsistencies exist in that work, and how to pursue those gaps, if interested. A research proposal is required at the end of the quarter.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 210A:
Phonology
Introduction to phonological theory and analysis based on cross-linguistic evidence. Topics: phonological representations including features, syllables, metrical structure; phonological processes; phonological typology and universals; the phonology/morphology interface; Optimality Theory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 210B:
Advanced Phonology
New developments in phonological theory, in particular Optimality Theory, primarily on the empirical basis of stress, syllable structure, prosodic organization, and phonological variation.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 211:
Metrics
Principles of versification from a linguistic point of view. Traditional and optimality-theoretic approaches. The canonical system of English metrics, and its varieties and offshoots. The typology of metrical systems and its linguistic basis. Meter and performance.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 212A:
Seminar in Phonology (LINGUIST 112)
Topics vary each year. Previous topics include variation in the phonology of words according to their contexts within larger expressions and the place of these phenomena in a theory of grammar. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 212B:
Seminar in Phonology
May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 213:
Corpus Phonology
An introduction to constructing and using phonologically annotated corpora to test phonological hypotheses. Hands-on experience in corpus manipulation and phonological modeling.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 214:
Phonology Workshop
May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 216:
Morphology
Major contemporary approaches to morphology. Word-based vs. morpheme-based morphol- ogy. Realizational vs. generative morphology. Affix ordering and morphological constituency. The mirror principle. The morphology/syntax boundary and the lexicalist hypothesis. Compound- ing: synthetic and phrasal compounds, incorporation. Prosodic morphology. The semantics of inflection and derivation. Feature decomposition of inflectional categories: markedness, blocking, underspecification. Gaps and periphrasis. Inheritance hierarchies. Valence-changing operations. This is a 4-unit course. May be taken for fewer units with prior approval of the instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 217:
Morphosyntax
The role of morphology in grammar: how word structure serves syntax in the expression of meaning. Lexical semantics, Theta-roles, argument structure, and grammatical relations. Licensing: case, agreement, word order, and their interaction.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 218:
Seminar on Morphological Theories
Word formation and the lexicon: empirical generalizations and theoretical approaches. Lexicalist and Distributed Morphology. How words are built and interpreted: constituency and headedness, morpheme order and scope, the mirror principle, bracketing paradoxes, the hierarchy of functional categories. Paradigms, blocking, gaps, periphrasis, syncretism. Locality, head movement vs. selection, constraints on allomorphy, incorporation, polysynthesis, cliticization and prosodic re-ordering phenomena.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 219:
Frequency and the Grammar of Alternations
Variationist, and psycholinguistic studies of how syntactic alternations (for example, the English dative, genitive, and passive) develop in time and space.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 221A:
Foundations of English Grammar
A systematic introduction to the formal analysis of English grammar using the framework of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG). Topics: feature structure modeling, lexical and phrasal organization in terms of type hierarchies and constraint inheritance, clausal types, patterns of complementation, the auxiliary system, extraction dependencies, wh-constructions, and the syntax-semantics interface.
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 221B:
Studies in Universal Grammar
Focus is on grammatical analysis of individual languages. Builds directly on the theoretical foundations presented in 221A. Topics vary each year.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 222A:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory I
The roles of the verb and the lexicon in the determination of sentence syntax and their treatment in modern grammatical theories. Empirical underpinnings of core phenomena, including the argument/adjunct distinction, argument structure and argument realization, control and raising, operations on argument structure and grammatical function changing rules. Motivations for a lexicalist approach rooted in principles of lexical expression and subcategorization satisfaction. Prerequisite: 120 or permission of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 222B:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory II
The nature of unbounded dependency constructions such as constituent questions, topicalization, relative clauses, and clefts, among others. Topics include A-bar movement, constraints on extraction, successive cyclicity, as well as variation in the way unbounded dependencies are established crosslinguistically. Prerequisite: 222A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 222C:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory III - Topics
This course introduces contemporary approaches to syntactic theory. Focus is on a few central topics of current interest such as ellipsis, binding, locality, movement, case and agreement, among others. Prerequisites: Linguist 222B or permission of the instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 223:
Introduction to Minimalist Syntax
Introduces the basics of Minimalist architecture and structure-building operations, with attention to the communication of syntax with the phonological and semantic interfaces. Topics include phrase structure, locality and phases, phrasal and head movement, functional categories, and features. A previous graduate-level syntax course, or permission of the instructor required.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 224:
Introduction to Lexical Function Grammar (LINGUIST 124)
Presentation of a formal model of grammar designed to allow precise, computationally tractable descriptions of cross-linguistic variation in syntactic structure. Concentration on the formal properties of the model, its flexibility in teasing out language specific and possibly universal characteristics of natural languages and the place of syntax as a component within a larger linguistic architecture. Prerequisite: 120 or consent of instructor
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 224A:
From Text to Natural Reasoning
To reason about textual information we rely extensively on extra-linguistic information but the syntactic structure and lexical items used also play a role in guiding us to conclusions. In by now traditional semantic practice the contributions of those are treated in model theoretic terms. But formulas of first or higher order logic do not come with effective procedures for the reasoning that is required to draw inferences or answer questions given some natural language input. Natural Reasoning is a cover term we use for a family of proof-theoretic formal approaches that are currently used by computational linguists. The course will give an overview of proof-theoretic logic as applied to natural language, discuss some of the computational systems that incorporate this view (Stanford's NatLog, Bar Ilan's Biutee, Parc's Bridge) and conclude with a critical view of the linguistic generalizations that underlie these approaches and means to improve them or mitigate their shortcomings. The examples of natural reasoning will mainly be in the domain of monotonicity reasoning and reasoning about the factuality of events.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 224B:
Advanced Topics in Lexical Functional Grammar
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 225:
Seminar in Syntax: Head Movement
Seminar on advanced topics in syntax. Topics may vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 225A:
Seminar in Syntax: Ellipsis
Diverse kinds of elliptical utterances. The fundamental problems in grammatical analysis of ellipsis (primary focus: English). The clarification of key data relating to current theoretical controversies. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 225B:
Seminar in Syntax: Syntax/Phonology Interface
The nature of the syntax-phonology interface. To what extent does syntax influence phonology and in what ways does phonology influence syntax? Topics may include: word order and linearization, second-position effects, prosodic structure and the prosodic hierarchy, sentential stress, ellipsis, focus, allomorphy, among others. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Linguistics 222A (Foundations of Syntactic Theory I) and Linguistics 210A (Phonology), or permission of the instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 225S:
Syntax and Morphology Research Seminar
Presentation of ongoing research in syntax and morphology. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 5 units total)
LINGUIST 227C:
Projects in Syntax
Group research projects using quantitative syntactic data from texts, recordings, experiments, or historical records. Skills in extracting, graphically exploring, and analyzing naturalistic syntactic data, and in presenting results. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 229A, B, or D, or equivalent.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 4 units total)
LINGUIST 229A:
Laboratory Syntax I
Critiques of the empirical foundations of syntax. The roles of introspective, usage-based, experimental, and typological evidence. Modern methods of data collection and analysis used in syntax. Hands-on, practical work with data sets. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 229B:
Laboratory Syntax II
Hands-on use of methods for handling syntactic data, including corpus work on ecologically natural data and controlled experimental paradigms. Explanatory models of syntactic processing and their relation to theories of grammar. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2007
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 229C:
Laboratory Syntax III
Hands-on use of methods for handling syntactic data, including corpus work on ecologically natural data and controlled experimental paradigms. Explanatory models of syntactic processing and their relation to theories of grammar. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2006
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 229D:
Empirical Syntax Research Seminar
Recent work in syntax that employs data-rich methods like corpora and laboratory studies, emphasizing research by seminar participants. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 230A:
Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 130A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include ambiguity, vagueness, presupposition, intonational meaning, and Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Applications to issues in politics, the law, philosophy, advertising, and natural language processing. Those who have not taken logic, such as PHIL 150 or 151, should also enroll in 130C. Pre- or corequisite: 120, 121, consent of instructor, or graduate standing in Linguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 230B:
Semantics and Pragmatics I
Expands on 130A/230A. Detailed study of selected topics in formal semantics and pragmatics. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A or permission from instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 230C:
Semantics and Pragmatics II
We focus on a topic in the meaning and use of linguistic expressions to explore a number of central issues in semantics and pragmatics. These include quantification, binding, referentiality, presupposition, pragmatic inferences, context-dependency, indexicality, and systems of dynamic interpretation. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 230B or permission of the instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 230D:
Semantics Research Seminar
Maybe repeated for credit
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 230E:
Logic Laboratory (LINGUIST 130C)
Typically taken in conjunction with 130A/230A.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 232A:
Lexical Semantics
Introduction to issues in word meaning, focused primarily around verbs. Overview of the core semantic properties of verbs and the organization of the verb lexicon. Approaches to lexical semantic representation, including semantic role lists, proto-roles, and causal and aspectual theories of event conceptualization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 232B:
Seminar in Lexical Semantics: Agents, External Arguments, and Clause Structure
An investigation into the semantic foundations of clause structure through the lens of agentivity. Review of recent research on the nature of agentivity, with a focus on investigations of non-canonical instances (e.g., non-volitional agents, emitters, natural forces, projectiles). Implications for current syntactic assumptions about the nature of the clause (e.g., severing the external argument, voice P, little v). May be repeated for credit with different content.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 234:
The Structure of Discourse: Theory and Applications (LINGUIST 134A)
In this course we will address the structure of language above the sentence concentrating initially on: nn(1) defining the minimal units of discourse structuren(2) recursive rules of combination of minimal units (i.e. discourse ¿syntax¿)n(3) representations of discourse level phenomenan(4) the nature and structure of spoken and written formal and informal discourse genres and Speech events in English and other languages including stories, explanations, literary works etc. on the one hand, and socially constructed occasions of speaking such as classes, doctor patient interactions, and informal conversation on the other.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 235:
Semantic Fieldwork
Techniques for evidence from less well-studied languages within formal semantic theory. Semantic phenomena, and techniques for investigating them, including scope, quantifiers, pronouns, focus, tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and information structure. Practical work on a language.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 236:
Seminar in Semantics: Formal semantics and the psychology of reasoning (PSYCH 236C)
Discussion of topics at the interface of natural language semantics and psychology of reasoning, such as conditionals, causal language, the language of uncertainty, generics, and syllogistic reasoning.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 237:
Seminar in Semantics: Gradation & Modality
Discussion of major semantic theories of modality and gradation, with special attention to empirical and logical issues that arise from the study of gradable modals.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 239:
Semantics and Pragmatics Research Seminar
Presentation of ongoing research in semantics. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 240:
Language Acquisition I (LINGUIST 140)
Processes of language acquisition in early childhood; stages in development; theoretical issues and research questions. Practical experience in data collection. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics if requested.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 241:
Language Acquisition II
Pragmatics and acquisition. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 242:
Heritage Languages (LINGUIST 142)
The linguistic and cultural properties of Heritage languages, which are partially acquired and supplanted by a dominant language in childhood. Topics: Syntactic, phonological and morphological properties of heritage languages, implications from experimental HL research for language universals, cultural vs. linguistic knowledge, the role of schooling in HL competence, influence of the dominant language on the HL, and pedagogical issues for HL learners in the classroom.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 245:
Methods in Psycholinguistics
Over the past ten years, linguists have become increasingly interested in testing theories with a wider range of empirical data than the traditionally accepted introspective judgments of hand-selected linguistic examples. Consequently, linguistics has seen a surge of interest in psycholinguistic methods across all subfields. This course will provide an overview of various standard psycholinguistic techniques and measures, including offline judgments (e.g., binary categorization tasks like truth-value judgments, Likert scale ratings, continuous slider ratings), response times, reading times, eye-tracking, ERPs, and corpus methods. A particular focus will be placed on a problem that runs through all measures and techniques: that of generating an appropriate linking hypothesis from theoretical predictions to an expected empirical response pattern. Students will discuss research articles and gain hands-on experience with experimental design and implementation, data management, analysis, and visualization in R.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 246:
Foundations of Psycholinguistics
Basic readings in language processing and language use, with a historical dimension; discussion each week in class of the relevant papers.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 248:
Seminar in Developmental Psycholinguistics
Children's acquisition of word meaning, with particular emphasis on socio-pragmatic approaches vs. a priori constraints. Consideration of differences in acquisition by syntactic category (nouns versus verbs), by semantic domain, and by conversational frame, in considering how children build up a lexical repertoire.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 249:
Language Processing
Understanding spoken or written language requires the rapid, incremental processing of novel compositional structures, as well as the integration of the incoming language stream with multiple sources of information, such as the prior discourse, physical context, social information, etc. How are humans able to efficiently accomplish this task? To address this question, this course will consider principles of sentence and discourse processing that guide language understanding and features of sentence & discourse structure that facilitate comprehension. Specific topics are likely to include reference processing, memory & forgetting, individual differences in comprehension ability, the role of context, and computational models of language comprehension.
Last offered: Autumn 2011
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 249L:
Workshop on Language and Social Reasoning (PSYCH 249L)
To what extent can language use be treated as a special case of social cognition? The class will be based around visiting lectures by major researchers in this area, along with meetings to prepare for their visits by discussing key readings. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
LINGUIST 250:
Sociolinguistic Theory and Analysis
Methods of modeling the patterned variation of language in society. Emphasis is on variation, its relation to social structure and practice, and its role in linguistic change. Intersection between quantitative and qualitative analysis, combining insights of sociology and linguistic anthropology with quantitative linguistic data. Prerequisite: graduate standing in Linguistics or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 251:
Sociolinguistic Field Methods
Strengths and weaknesses of the principal methods of data collection in sociolinguistics.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 252:
Sociolinguistics and Pidgin Creole Studies (LINGUIST 152)
Introduction to pidgins and creoles, organized around the main stages in the pidgin-creole life cycle: pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. Focus is on transformations in the English language as it was transported from Britain to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Resultant pidginized and creolized varieties such as Nigerian Pidgin English, Chinese Pidgin English, New Guinea Tok Pisin, Suriname Sranan, and the creole continua of Guyana, Jamaica, and Hawaii. Also French, Dutch, Portugese, Chinook, Motu, and Sango.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 253:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Formations (ANTHRO 320A, CSRE 389A, EDUC 389A)
Language, as a cultural resource for shaping our identities, is central to the concepts of race and ethnicity. This seminar explores the linguistic construction of race and ethnicity across a wide variety of contexts and communities. We begin with an examination of the concepts of race and ethnicity and what it means to be "doing race," both as scholarship and as part of our everyday lives. Throughout the course, we will take a comparative perspective and highlight how different racial/ethnic formations (Asian, Black, Latino, Native American, White, etc.) participate in similar, yet different, ways of drawing racial and ethnic distinctions. The seminar will draw heavily on scholarship in (linguistic) anthropology, sociolinguistics and education. We will explore how we talk and don't talk about race, how we both position ourselves and are positioned by others, how the way we talk can have real consequences on the trajectory of our lives, and how, despite this, we all participate in maintaining racial and ethnic hierarchies and inequality more generally, particularly in schools.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 254:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography (ANTHRO 398B, EDUC 389B)
This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies, students conduct their own ethnographic research to test out the authors' contrasting approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. The goal is for students to develop a rich ethnographic toolkit that will allow them to effectively represent the (re)production and (trans)formation of racial, ethnic, and linguistic phenomena.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 255A:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: California Dialectology
This seminar organizes and analyzes data gathered by the Voices of California project. This year, we will be working with the data from Salinas. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 255B:
Sociolinguistics Classics and Community Studies
This course discusses some of the major community studies in sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov in NYC, Wolfram in Detroit, Trudgill in Norwich, Milroy in Belfast, and a selection of others up to the present) and the work of other classic sociolinguistic figures (e.g. Romaine, Hymes) who contributed in other ways. Our goal is to reach a deep understanding and critique of their methods, findings and ideas, to improve our own research and our responses to new developments in the field.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 255C:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Sociogrammar
Seminar style course exploring the literature on sociolinguistic variation in morphology and syntax from the 1960s to the present, and its implication for (socio)linguistic theory, especially in relation to (and in contrast with) socio-phonetics.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 255D:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Character Types in Sociolinguistics
Figures of personhood, personas, character types, and stereotypes in the study of linguistic variation. What are the significant differences among these types? Are these social types merely the vehicles through which social meanings travel or do they constitute the meanings themselves?
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 255E:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Stylistic Landscapes
The study of the role of language in the stylistic construction of personae has progressed significantly over the past decade. We know that patterns of association of these personae ramp up to construct the major macro-social categories such as gender, age, class, ethnicity, hence patterns across their linguistic styles correlate with these categories. We have yet, though, to theorize how that patterning takes place on the ground. This seminar will explore ways to theorize the stylistic landscape. nPrerequisites: 105/205 and 250, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 255F:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Classics in Sociolinguistics
Figures of personhood, personas, character types, and stereotypes in the study of linguistic variation. What are the significant differences among these types? Are these social types merely the vehicles through which social meanings travel or do they constitute the meanings themselves?
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 255G:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language & Embodiment
Topics vary by quarter. This course examines the role of the body (beyond speech articulators) in language use. Topics will include gesture, facial expression, physical stance, and hexis. Readings will be drawn from a variety of fields outside of linguistics. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
LINGUIST 255H:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Iconicity
The nature of iconicity in language, with a focus on the role of sound symbolism in sociolinguistic variation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 256:
Language, Gender and Sexuality
The role of language in constructing gender and sexuality. Historical overview of major theoretical perspectives and debates (difference vs. dominance, identity vs. desire) and discussion of new directions (affect, embodiment, figures of personhood, experimental approaches). Previous coursework in sociolinguistics recommended. Prerequisites: LING 250 and 110 or the equivalent.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 257:
Sociophonetics (LINGUIST 157)
The study of phonetic aspects of sociolinguistic variation and the social significance of phonetic variation. Acoustic analysis of vowels, consonants, prosody, and voice quality. Hands-on work on collaborative research project. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 258:
Analysis of Variation
The quantitative study of linguistic variability in time, space, and society emphasizing social constraints in variation. Hands-on work with variable data. Prerequisites: 105/205 and 250, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 259:
Topics in Sociolinguistics
Topics vary by quarter. Current topic is Sociophonetics. Repeatable for credit.nThis seminar explores new methods of collecting and analyzing sociophonetic data in an experimental setting, including electroglottography, aerodynamic measures, speech resynthesis, and perception study tasks. Requirements include both collaborative and individual research projects.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 16 units total)
LINGUIST 260A:
Historical Morphology and Phonology
Sound change and analogical change in the perspective of linguistic theory. Internal and comparative reconstruction. Establishing genetic relationships.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 260B:
Historical Morphosyntax
Morphological and syntactic variation and change. Reanalysis, grammaticalization. The use of corpora and quantitative evidence. This is a 4-unit course. May be taken for fewer units with prior approval of the instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 263:
Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (ANTHRO 163A, ANTHRO 263A, LINGUIST 163A, NATIVEAM 163)
Languages around the world are dying at such a rapid rate that the next century could see half of the world's 6800 languages and cultures become extinct unless action is taken now. This course looks at how and why languages die, and what is lost from a culture when that occurs. We will investigate how this trend can be reversed by methods of language documentation and description, the use of innovative technologies, multimodal fieldwork, writing dictionaries and grammars for different audiences, language planning, and data creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination. We will focus on a number of current programs around the world to revitalize languages. Finally, the course will examine ethical modes of fieldwork within endangered language communities, and the possibilities of successful collaborations and capacity building, focusing especially on Northern California Indian peoples and their languages.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 264:
English Transplanted, English Transformed: Pidgins and Creoles
English varieties around the world, including white vernacular dialects and creole, pidgin, and indiginized Englishes. Emphasis is on the historical circumstances of origin, linguistic characteristics, and social setting in colonial and postcolonial societies. Theoretical issues pertaining to language contact, language shift, and pidgin and creole formation.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 265:
African American Vernacular English
Linguistics 265 is a new, advanced course on African American Vernacular English, intended for graduate students in Linguistics, Education and other fields, and fornundergraduate majors in Linguistics. Students who have taken Linguistics 65 or its equivalent, or who have had an undergraduate introduction to linguistics, arenalso eligible to take this course.nnThe course will discuss in detail some of the descriptive, historical and sociolinguistic literature on AAVE, beginning with the classic book length works on AAVE writtennby William Labov, Walt Wolfram and Ralph Fasold, but including some of the most recent research-based articles on the subject in current and recent journals. Researchninterests of students in the course will help to determine the specific foci within these broad parameters.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
LINGUIST 266:
Vernacular English and Reading (LINGUIST 66)
Discusses some of the literature on the relation between use of vernacular English varieties (e.g. African American Vernacular English, Chicano English) and the development of literacy (especially in Standard English). But our primary focus is on improving the reading skills of African American and Latino students in local schools through the Reading Road program developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Students must commit to tutoring one or more elementary students weekly, using the program. L65 AAVE recommended, but not required.
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 4-5
LINGUIST 267:
Panini
Panini's "Astadhyayi", the most complete generative grammar of any language yet written, is the source of many of the principles and formal techniques of modern linguistic theory. Remarkably, in Pa 'n.ini's work these emerge just from jointly maximizing empirical coverage and minimizing description length. We review the overall organization of his grammar and its motivation, the levels of representation, the types of rules and constraints, and the principles that govern their application and interaction. Among the specific aspects of the analysis that we will examine are the thematic role-based syntax, the lexicalist analysis of word-formation and inflection, and the stratally organized phonology. Course is 4 units. May be taken for fewer units with prior approval from instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 270:
The Arabic Language and Culture (LINGUIST 36)
(Formerly AMELANG 36). Arabic language from historical, social, strategic, and linguistic perspectives. History of the Arabic language and the stability of classical Arabic over the last 15 centuries. Why the functionality of classical Arabic has not changed as Latin, Old English, and Middle English have. Social aspects of the Arabic language, Ferguson¿s notion of diglossia. The main varieties of Arabic, differences among them, and when and where they are spoken. Role of Arabic and culture in current world politics, culture, and economy. Linguistic properties of Arabic such as root-based morphology, lexical ambiguity, and syntactic structure relating it to current linguistic theories.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 271:
Structure of Basque
Introduction to key topics in Basque morphology, syntax, semantics and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Topics covered may include basic clause structure and word order, case-marking and ergativity, the expression of motion and location.
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 272:
Structure of Finnish
Central topics in Finnish morphology, syntax, and semantics and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Topics: clause structure; case; aspect; word order.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 272A:
Structure of Slavic
Central topics in the syntax, morphology, and phonology of Slavic languages and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Prerequisites: Linguistics 222A (Foundations of Syntactic Theory I) and Linguistics 210A (Phonology)
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 272B:
Structure of African Languages: Semantic Topics
This course surveys several semantic phenomena in African languages from a formal-semantic perspective. Particular topics will reflect the interests of participants, but may include: quantification, NP semantics and number, (in)definiteness, reported speech, tense and aspect, and lexicalization patterns. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A or permission of instructor
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 273:
The Structure of Russian (LINGUIST 173)
A synchronic overview of contemporary standard Russian, including its sound system, word formation and grammatical structure. Emphasis is on problems presented by Russian for current linguistic theory. The acquisition of Russian as a first language.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 274A:
Linguistic Field Methods (ANTHRO 30)
Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Students are strongly encouraged to make a commitment to both 274A and 274B in the same year. Prerequisites: One course in phonetics or phonology and syntax, or permission of the instructor. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor only.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 274B:
Field Methods II
Continuation of 274A, with a focus on student projects in a targeted language. Prerequisite: 274A or consent of instructor. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to make a commitment to both 274A and 274B in the same year. For full credit, students are expected to work privately with the consultant outside of class time.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 274C:
Linguistic Field Methods: Syntax
Prerequisites include one quarter of phonology and one quarter of syntax or permission of instructor. Graduate students are heavily encouraged to make a commitment to both 274B and 274C in the same year
Last offered: Winter 2013
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 275:
Probability and Statistics for linguists
Introduction to probability and statistical inference, with a focus on conceptual and practical issues relevant to theoretical, experimental, and corpus linguistics. Data analysis and modeling using R. Course project will involve reproducing a published modeling result or statistical analysis in full detail.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 276:
Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
Introduction to methods for collecting and analyzing quantitative linguistic data, with a primary focus on the use of corpora in exploring theoretical questions in various areas of linguistics. Topics include the access and retrieval of corpus data (including web-based corpora), data annotation, and statistical modeling. Practical experience with R, Python scripting, and setting up online experiments through Amazon Mechanical Turk.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 277:
Laboratory Methods in Psycholinguistics
Issues that commonly arise in the design and implementation of linguistic experiments and in the statistical analysis of empirical results. Topics in experimental design include selection of stimuli, blocking, and power analysis and sample size calculation. How to fit and interpret statistical models using the multilevel regression and Bayesian inference, as implemented in software packages R and Bugs. Topics include interpretation of model coefficients for fixed and random effects, collinearity, model criticism, as well as comparison and reporting of models. Theoretical issues worked out at lab sessions using examples from experiments and corpus studies, including those provided by students.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 278:
Programming for Linguists
Computer programming techniques for collecting and analyzing data in linguistic research. Introduction to the UNIX, regular expressions, and Python scripting. Hands-on experience gathering, formatting, and manipulating corpus, field, and experimental data, combining data from multiple sources, and working with existing tools. Knowledge of computer programming not required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 280:
From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 180)
Extracting meaning, information, and structure from human language text, speech, web pages, genome sequences, social networks. Methods include: string algorithms, edit distance, language modeling, the noisy channel, naive Bayes, inverted indices, collaborative filtering, PageRank. Applications such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, text classification, social network models, chatbots, genomic sequence alignment, spell checking, speech processing, recommender systems. Prerequisite: CS103, CS107, CS109.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 281:
Computational Models of Linguistic Formalism
This seminar will explore the computational properties of a small set of formalisms from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, the choice depending on the interests of the participants. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, finite-state techniques, Optimality Theory, Unification-based grammar, Montague Grammar, Sound change, Corpus-based exploration, and Translation.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 282:
Computational Theories of Syntax (LINGUIST 182)
Salient features of modern syntactic theories, including HPSG, LFG, and TAG, motivated by computational concerns. Impact of work within these frameworks on the design of algorithms in computational linguistics, and its influence in both linguistics and computer science. Topics include: notions of unification; unification algorithms and their relation to linguistic theory; agenda-driven chart processing for analysis and synthesis; the interface with morphology, the lexicon, and semantics; and applications, notably machine translation.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 283:
Basic Algorithms for Computational Linguistics
Foundational algorithms of non-statistical computational linguistics, including string searching, suffix trees and suffix arrays, finite-state technology for phonology, morphology and dictionary access, classical back-tracking programs for sentence analysis, the use of charts in parsing, generation and translation. Students complete a programming project in one of these areas.
Last offered: Winter 2012
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 284:
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (CS 224N)
Methods for processing human language information and the underlying computational properties of natural languages. Focus on deep learning approaches: understanding, implementing, training, debugging, visualizing, and extending neural network models for a variety of language understanding tasks. Exploration of natural language tasks ranging from simple word level and syntactic processing to coreference, question answering, and machine translation. Examination of representative papers and systems and completion of a final project applying a complex neural network model to a large-scale NLP problem. Prerequisites: calculus and linear algebra; CS124 or CS121/221.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 284A:
Writing Systems in a Digital Age (LINGUIST 185)
Introduction to the variety of writing systems and their behaviors. Classification of all existing scripts as alphabetic, syllabic, ideographic; unifying and differentiating features within each group. How writing captures human language in various ways. The development of the alphabet, from ancient Semitic scripts to modern times. How writing systems are extended to additional languages. Chinese writing, its characteristics and sphere of influence. Japanese writing as a hybrid system that includes Chinese. Korean writing as an ideally designed script. The Indian system of writing as the foundation of numerous Asian syllabic scripts. Unicode as global standard for encoding text in all languages. Font technology: the emulation of human writing in the digital realm. nBasic knowledge of phonetics recommended. Knowledge of foreign languages helpful.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 285:
Spoken Language Processing (CS 224S)
Introduction to spoken language technology with an emphasis on dialogue and conversational systems. Automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialogue management, and applications to digital assistants, search, and spoken language understanding systems. Covers state-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning as well as traditional methods. Prerequisites: CS 124, 221, 224N, or 229
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 286:
Information Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276)
Text information retrieval systems; efficient text indexing; Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic retrieval models; ranking and rank aggregation; evaluating IR systems; text clustering and classification; Web search engines including crawling and indexing, link-based algorithms, web metadata, and question answering; distributed word representations. Prerequisites: CS 107, CS 109, CS 161.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 287:
Extracting Social Meaning and Sentiment (CS 424P)
Methods for extracting social meaning (speaker perspectives, emotions and attitudes) from text and speech. Topics include sentiment analysis and summarization, detection of deception, sarcasm, emotion, and personality.nnAnalysis of meaning-bearing characteristics of the speaker and topic, including text, discourse, prosodic and other cues. Prerequisite: CS 124 or 221 or 229 or permission of instructors.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 289:
Topics in Computational Linguistics: Computational Models of Language Change
Topics in computational models of language change. Vector semantic models of change in word meaning, word sentiment, and word innovation, computational models of syntactic change and sound change, and models of language evolution like the interated learning paradigm. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 288, LINGUIST 230A, LINGUIST 250, and either LINGUIST 205A or 210A. Or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 291:
Linguistics and the Teaching of English as a Second/Foreign Language (LINGUIST 191)
Methodology and techniques for teaching languages, using concepts from linguistics and second language acquisition theory and research. Focus is on teaching English, but most principles and techniques applicable to any language. Optional 1-unit seminar in computer-assisted language learning.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
LINGUIST 292A:
Language Testing (LINGUIST 192)
Performance with language (speaking, reading, writing, listening, translating or interpreting) is used to measure a person's proficiency or achievement level in the language. Language performance is also used to measure other human characteristics, including psycho-social states and traits. The course will review basic methods in language measurement and cover their use as applied in education, psychology, and commerce. Topics include both traditional and automatic methods for assessing speaking, reading, writing, affect, and language disorders. Students will develop, apply, and evaluate a language test.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 294:
Linguistic Research Discussion Group
Restricted to first-year Linguistics Ph.D. students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 390:
M.A. Project
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-6
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 391A:
Curricular Practical Training
Educational opportunities in research and development labs in industry. Qualified linguistics students engage in internship work and integrate that work into their academic program. Students register during the quarter they are employed and complete a research report outlining their work activity, problems investigated, results, and follow-on projects they expect to perform. Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
LINGUIST 393:
Summer Research Activity
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-8
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 393A:
Research Activity in Sociolinguistics
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. May be repeated for credit
Last offered: Summer 2016
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
LINGUIST 394:
TA Training Workshop
For second-year graduate students in Linguistics
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 395:
Research Workshop
Restricted to students in the doctoral program. Student presentations of research toward qualifying papers. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 395C:
Summer Research Workshop
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. May be repeated for credit. Student presentations of ongoing research plus professional development sessions.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 395D:
Linguistics Writing Group
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. May be repeated for credit. Meets weekly to support student writing projects
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 5 units total)
LINGUIST 396:
Research Projects in Linguistics
Mentored research project for first-year graduate students in linguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
Instructors: ;
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Goodman, N. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zaenen, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 397:
Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alim, H. (PI);
Anttila, A. (PI);
Baglini, R. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Polanyi, L. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zaenen, A. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 398:
Directed Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Baglini, R. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zaenen, A. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 399:
Dissertation Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
