LINGUIST 1:
Introduction to Linguistics
The cognitive organization of linguistic structure and the social nature of language use. Why language learning is difficult. Why computers have trouble understanding human languages. How languages differ from one another. How and why speakers of the same language speak differently. How language is used strategically.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 65:
African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21, LINGUIST 265)
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 83N:
Translation
Preference to sophomores. 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, Writing 2
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)
The study of speech sounds: how to produce them, how to perceive them, and their acoustic properties. The influence of production and perception systems on sound change and phonological patterns. Acoustic analysis and experimental techniques. Lab exercises. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 110:
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Differences in the sounds of the world's languages and how these sounds are made by the human vocal tract. Theories that account for cross-linguistic similarities in the face of differences.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, 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
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 130A:
Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
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, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 130B:
Introduction to Lexical Semantics
Issues in the study of word meaning. Focus is on the core semantic properties and internal organization of the four major word categories in natural languages: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 130C:
Logic Laboratory
Typically taken in conjunction with 130A/230A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
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.
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. Examine gesture developmentally and how gesture is represented in painting and animation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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.
Terms: Spr
| 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 144:
Introduction to Cognitive and Information Sciences (PHIL 190, PSYCH 132, SYMSYS 100)
The history, foundations, and accomplishments of the cognitive sciences, including presentations by leading Stanford researchers in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Overview of the issues addressed in the Symbolic Systems major.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 150:
Language in 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 155:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AFRICAAM 121X, AMSTUD 121X, ANTHRO 121A, CSRE 121X, EDUC 121X)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 156:
Language and Gender
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: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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, rates of change, 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 or evolutionary theory.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 180:
From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 280)
Automated processing of less structured information: human language text and speech, web pages, social networks, genome sequences, with goal of automatically extracting meaning and structure. Methods include: string algorithms, automata and transducers, hidden Markov models, graph algorithms, XML processing. Applications such as information retrieval, text classification, social network models, machine translation, genomic sequence alignment, word meaning extraction, and speech recognition. Prerequisite: CS103, CS107, CS109.
Terms: Win
| 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 197:
Undergraduate Research Seminar
Research goals and methods in linguistics and related disciplines. Students work on a small project to define a focus for their linguistic studies and prepare for honors research. Presentations; final paper.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
LINGUIST 198:
Honors Research
Terms: 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);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Potts, K. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (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);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Potts, K. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 205A:
Phonetics (LINGUIST 105)
The study of speech sounds: how to produce them, how to perceive them, and their acoustic properties. The influence of production and perception systems on sound change and phonological patterns. Acoustic analysis and experimental techniques. Lab exercises. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 207:
Seminar in Phonetics
Topics vary. Current topic is phonetic variation in speech perception. Previous topics include ow variation is accommodated in current models of speech perception, and how perceptual models need to be altered to accommodate phonetic variation encountered by listeners. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| 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 including assimilation and dissimilation; and phonological typology and universals; optimality theory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 210B:
Advanced Phonology
The phonological organization of the lexicon. Topics include lexical phonology, phonological subregularities, gradient phonotactics, and lexical frequency effects.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 212:
Seminar in Phonology
Topics vary each year. Current topic is prosody. 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
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: 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.
Terms: Aut
| 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.
Terms: Win
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
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: 2-4
LINGUIST 222B:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory II
The nature of unbounded dependency constructions and their treatment in modern grammatical theories. Filler-gap dependencies, island constraints, and the relation between grammar and processing. Prerequisite: 222A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
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
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 224B:
Advanced Topics in Lexical Functional Grammar
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 226:
Construction Grammar
An introduction to Sign-based Construction Grammar (SBCG), an alternative to derivational (movement-based) theories of grammar that synthesizes ideas developed in Berkeley Construction Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. How SBCG can provide a comprehensive and precise account of complex data sets without appeal to the complex structures commonly assumed to be projected from empty elements, and without extravagant assumptions about the biological endowment for language. The relation between grammar design and both language processing and language learning. Prerequisite: Some background in syntax.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 230A:
Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Conventional meaning and pragmatic enrichment, with special emphasis on the foundations of semantics and pragmatics, the central problems of the theory, the role of logic and model theory in semantic analysis, and interconnections with other aspects of language and communication.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
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: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 234:
Discourse Analysis
The organization of language above the sentence level, and the manifestation of language in context. Practical experience in working with discourse data.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 239:
Semantics Research Seminar
Presentation of ongoing research in semantics. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 241:
Language Acquisition II
Constructions and the lexicon. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
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: 4
LINGUIST 251:
Sociolinguistic Field Methods
Strengths and weaknesses of the principal methods of data collection in sociolinguistics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 253:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language (ANTHRO 320A, EDUC 389X)
This seminar explores the linguistic construction of race and ethnicity across a wide variety of contexts and communities. Throughout the course, we will take a comparative perspective and highlight how different racial/ethnic formations participate in similar, yet different, ways of "doing race" though language, interaction and culture. Readings draw heavily from perspectives in (linguistic) anthropology and sociolinguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 255:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Contact Linguistics
Classical and recent works in contact linguistics including Weinreich, Tudgill, Winford. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 259:
Topics in Sociolinguistics
Topics vary by quarter. Current topic is phonetic symbolism. Repeatable for credit
Terms: Aut
| 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.
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 262:
Constructionalization
Discussion of recent proposals about how to enhance work on grammaticalization and lexicalization by adopting a construction grammar perspective.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 265:
African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21, LINGUIST 65)
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
LINGUIST 280:
From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 180)
Automated processing of less structured information: human language text and speech, web pages, social networks, genome sequences, with goal of automatically extracting meaning and structure. Methods include: string algorithms, automata and transducers, hidden Markov models, graph algorithms, XML processing. Applications such as information retrieval, text classification, social network models, machine translation, genomic sequence alignment, word meaning extraction, and speech recognition. Prerequisite: CS103, CS107, CS109.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 284:
Natural Language Processing (CS 224N)
Methods for processing human language information and the underlying computational properties of natural languages. Syntactic and semantic processing from linguistic and algorithmic perspectives. Focus is on modern quantitative techniques in NLP: using large corpora, statistical models for acquisition, translation, and interpretation; and representative systems. Prerequisites: CS124 or CS121/221.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
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: classification algorithms, latent semantic indexing, taxonomy induction; Web search engines including crawling and indexing, link-based algorithms, and web metadata. 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 289:
Topics in Computational Linguistics: History of Computational Linguistics
Intellectual history of computational linguistics and natural language processing, together with related aspects of dialogue and speech processing, using primary sources. Reading of seminal early papers, interviews with historical figures, with the goal of understanding the origins and intellectual development of the field. Prerequisites: at least one of LING 180, 281, 283, 284, 286, or 288.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 4 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 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
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
LINGUIST 395C:
Research Workshop III
Restricted to students in the doctoral program. Student presentations of research toward qualifying papers.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 396:
Research Projects in Linguistics
Mentored research project for first-year graduate students in linguistics.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 397:
Directed Reading
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);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Potts, K. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Rohde, H. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 398:
Directed 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);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Potts, K. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Rohde, H. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (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);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Kay, M. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Potts, K. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sag, I. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 62N:
The Language of Food
Preference to freshmen. The relationship between food and language around the globe. The vocabulary of food and prepared dishes, and crosslinguistic similarities and differences, historical origins, forms and meanings, and relationship to cultural and social variables. The structure of cuisines viewed as meta-languages with their own vocabularies and grammatical structure. The language of menus; their historical development and crosslinguistic differences.
| Units: 3
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.
| Units: 4-5
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.
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 133:
Introduction to Formal Pragmatics (LINGUIST 233)
(Graduate students register for 233.) Mechanism underlying language use and felicity intuitions. Formal models of discourse that incorporate many aspects of pragmatics such as presuppositions, speech acts, implicatures, relevance, optimality, and utility. Discussion of common ground, illocutionary acts, Gricean maxims and Neo-Gricean analysis, game and decision theory.
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
| 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.
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 154:
Sociolinguistics of Language Contact (LINGUIST 254)
The role of contact between speakers of different languages in processes of language borrowing, convergence, and shift. Attending both to linguistic aspects and social contexts, examine: second-language acquitision, bilingualism, code-switching, lexical and grammatical borrowing, first language attrition, language death, and the creation of new contact varieties such as jargons, mixed languages, pidgins, and creoles. Prerequisite: background in linguistics, at least one course in linguistics.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 161:
The Classification of Languages: Genealogical and Typological Perspectives
Techniques for grouping languages. Genealogical classification organizes languages according to their family histories, revealing the "linguistic DNA" which identifies related languages in terms of shared historical origins. Typology demonstrates how the languages of the world are similar to and different from each other according to certain diagnostic structural properties. Prerequisite: one course in linguistics.
| Units: 4
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.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 174:
Linguistic Field Methods (ANTHRO 30, LINGUIST 274A)
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. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 181:
Grammar Engineering (LINGUIST 281)
Hands-on techniques for implementation of linguistic grammars, drawing on grammatical theory and engineering skills. The implementation of constraints in morphology, syntax, and semantics, working within a unification-based lexicalist framework. Focus is on developing small grammars for English and at least one other language. Prerequisite: basic syntactic theory or 120. No programming skills required.
| Units: 1-4
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.
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 185:
Writing Systems in a Digital World (LINGUIST 284A)
Writing systems and their behaviors. Classification of scripts as alphabetic, syllabic, and ideographic; what features typically belong to each group. What can be considered an ideal script. Topics include: why Japanese writing is considered a complex system; the influence of Indian writing on other syllabic scripts; how writing systems extend their reach to new languages; linguistic insights by studying this process; the Unicode standard; and font technology. Recommended: basic phonetics.
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 188:
Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 288)
Machine understanding of human language. Computational semantics (determination of word sense and synonymy, event structure and thematic roles, time, aspect, causation, compositional semantics, scopal operators), and computational pragmatics and discourse (coherence, coreference resolution, information packaging, dialogue structure). Theoretical issues, online resources, and relevance to applications including question answering and summarization. Prerequisites: one of LINGUIST 180 / CS 124 / CS 224N,S: and logic such as LINGUIST 130A or B, CS 157, or PHIL150).
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 201:
Advanced Introduction to Linguistics
Primarily for graduate students. The leading ideas of linguistic description and argumentation. Fundamental representational notions in phonology, syntax, and semantics, and the place of these notions in wider linguistic analysis.
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 205B:
Advanced Phonetics
Prerequisite: LINGUIST 205A.
| Units: 2-4
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. The ideology of normative prosodic discourse in relation to changing poetic practice.
| 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.
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 214:
Phonology Workshop
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 216:
Morphology
How morphology fits into the lexicon and how the lexicon fits into grammar. Inflection and word-formation: blocking, productivity, analogy. Morphological categories. The interaction of morphology with phonology within the lexicon: level-ordering, prosodic morphology. Review of English morphology and analysis of representative material from languages with richer morphologies.
| Units: 2-4
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 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.
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 4 units total)
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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 230B:
Semantics and Pragmatics
Expands on 230A. Standard approaches to formal semantics (Montague grammar, DRT, and basic dynamic semantics). Analyses of semantic phenomena in these frameworks. Prerequisites: 230A; or combination of 130A and PHIL 150 and 160.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 232B:
Seminar in Lexical Semantics
Topics have included: lexical categories; motion verbs; psych-verbs. May be repeated for credit with different content.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 233:
Introduction to Formal Pragmatics (LINGUIST 133)
(Graduate students register for 233.) Mechanism underlying language use and felicity intuitions. Formal models of discourse that incorporate many aspects of pragmatics such as presuppositions, speech acts, implicatures, relevance, optimality, and utility. Discussion of common ground, illocutionary acts, Gricean maxims and Neo-Gricean analysis, game and decision theory.
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
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: Lexical and Constructional Pragmatics
Case studies in how reliable pragmatic meanings arise from the interactions between conventionalized content, speaker intentions, hearer expectations, and general pragmatic pressures. Emphasis on corpus and psycholinguistic methods. Potential topics: exclamatives, affective demonstratives, discourse particles, appositives, scalar terms, negation; progression of topics to be decided largely by the participants. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 237:
Seminar in Semantics: Semantics of Questions and Commands
Semantics of interrogatives and imperatives; propositional semantics of declaratives. Research emphasizing the meaning of questions. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 245:
Experimental Design for Linguistics
Hypothesis formation, confound avoidance, power, general methods, and analysis of results. Students complete a pilot experiment; write-up; peer review; presentation.
| Units: 4
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.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 253A:
Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Schools (EDUC 301X)
The Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Schools is a new School of Education initiative that examines the profound and enduring relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in education in the U.S. and elsewhere. The seminar brings together an inderdisciplinary group of leading scholars and graduate students in language in education to address the role of race and ethnicity in a host of complex and controversial language educational issues that cut across the areas of practice, policy, and pedagogy.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 40 units total)
LINGUIST 254:
Sociolinguistics of Language Contact (LINGUIST 154)
The role of contact between speakers of different languages in processes of language borrowing, convergence, and shift. Attending both to linguistic aspects and social contexts, examine: second-language acquitision, bilingualism, code-switching, lexical and grammatical borrowing, first language attrition, language death, and the creation of new contact varieties such as jargons, mixed languages, pidgins, and creoles. Prerequisite: background in linguistics, at least one course in linguistics.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 257:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Community Studies of Variation
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 260B:
Historical Morphosyntax
Morphological and syntactic variation and change. Reanalysis, grammaticalization. The use of corpora and quantitative evidence.
| Units: 2-4
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.
| Units: 4-5
LINGUIST 270:
The Arabic Language and Culture (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 272:
Structure of Finnish
Central topics in Finnish phonology/morphology and syntax/semantics and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Topics: stress; vowel harmony; clause structure; case; aspect; word order.
| 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.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 274A:
Linguistic Field Methods (ANTHRO 30, LINGUIST 174)
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. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 274B:
Field Methods II
Continuation of 274A, with a focus on phonetic topics in a targeted language. Prerequisite: 274A or consent of instructor.
| 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.
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 281:
Grammar Engineering (LINGUIST 181)
Hands-on techniques for implementation of linguistic grammars, drawing on grammatical theory and engineering skills. The implementation of constraints in morphology, syntax, and semantics, working within a unification-based lexicalist framework. Focus is on developing small grammars for English and at least one other language. Prerequisite: basic syntactic theory or 120. No programming skills required.
| 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.
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 284A:
Writing Systems in a Digital World (LINGUIST 185)
Writing systems and their behaviors. Classification of scripts as alphabetic, syllabic, and ideographic; what features typically belong to each group. What can be considered an ideal script. Topics include: why Japanese writing is considered a complex system; the influence of Indian writing on other syllabic scripts; how writing systems extend their reach to new languages; linguistic insights by studying this process; the Unicode standard; and font technology. Recommended: basic phonetics.
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 285:
Speech Recognition and Synthesis (CS 224S)
Automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and dialogue systems. Focus is on key algorithms including noisy channel model, hidden Markov models (HMMs), Viterbi decoding, N-gram language modeling, unit selection synthesis, and roles of linguistic knowledge. Prerequisite: programming experience. Recommended: CS 221 or 229.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 288:
Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 188)
Machine understanding of human language. Computational semantics (determination of word sense and synonymy, event structure and thematic roles, time, aspect, causation, compositional semantics, scopal operators), and computational pragmatics and discourse (coherence, coreference resolution, information packaging, dialogue structure). Theoretical issues, online resources, and relevance to applications including question answering and summarization. Prerequisites: one of LINGUIST 180 / CS 124 / CS 224N,S: and logic such as LINGUIST 130A or B, CS 157, or PHIL150).
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 293:
Research Seminar in Applied Linguistics (EDUC 435X)
For graduate students in the schools of Education and Humanities and Sciences who are engaged in research pertaining to applied linguistic topics in original research. Topics: language policies and planning, language and gender, writing and critical thinking, foreign language education, and social applications of linguistic science. (SSPEP)
| Units: 1-4
