LINGUIST 1:
Introduction to Linguistics
This introductory-level course is targeted to students with no linguistics background. It is designed to provide an overview of methods, findings, and problems in eight main areas of linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. Through lectures, in-class activities, and problem sets, you will come away with an overview of various linguistic phenomena, a sense of the diversity across languages, skills of linguistic analysis, an awareness of connections between these linguistics and applications of linguistics more broadly, and a basis for understanding the systematic, but complex nature of human language. While much of the course uses English to illuminate various points, you will be exposed to and learn to analyze languages other than English. By the end of the course, you should be able to explain similarities and differences of human languages, use basic linguistic terminology appropriately, apply the tools of linguistic analysis to problems and puzzles of linguistics, understand the questions that drive much research in linguistics, and explain how understanding linguistics is relevant for a variety of real-world phenomena.
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2017
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 30N:
Linguistic Meaning and the Law
We will investigate how inherent properties of language, such as ambiguity, vagueness and context-dependence, play into the meaning of a legal text, and how the meaning of a law can remain invariant while its range of application can change with the facts and with our discovery of what the facts are. Our focus will be on the perspective linguistic analysis brings to legal theory, addressing current controversies surrounding different conceptions of `textualism¿ and drawing on well-known examples of legal reasoning about language in cases of identity fraud, obstruction of justice and genocide.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 35:
Minds and Machines (CS 24, PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 1, SYMSYS 200)
(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. Students must take this course before being approved to declare Symbolic Systems as a major. All students interested in studying Symbolic Systems are urged to take this course early in their student careers. The course material and presentation will be at an introductory level, without prerequisites. If you have any questions about the course, please email symsys1staff@gmail.com.
Terms: Aut, Win, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
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: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 54N:
Social Bias and Earwitness Memory
As individuals, we would like to believe that we are free from biases and that we are somehow immune to acting on the social biases that we have been socialized to since birth. We would like to believe that we can report experiences accurately, recalling events as they truly happened. But, memory is faulty and stereotypes and social biases are pervasive. And, at a level beneath our own control, these biases slip in and influence our memory of events. Eyewitness memory, and the inaccuracy and unreliability of eyewitnesses, is a perfect example of this. But, what about the things we hear? Speech carries a great deal of information; packets of co-varying cues we have been raised to recognize categorically, informing us about a talker's race, accent, emotion, and gender. We have, through our ears, information about events that occur. And, we have in our minds, stereotyped expectations about how various groups of people behave and what various groups of people might say. In this course, we will explore how these two types of information (e.g., the percept of what is actually heard vs. our stereotypes about who is likely to have said what) clash together and influence 'earwitness memory'. We will read and critique journal articles, blogs, and popular science articles, think about the reliability of memory for auditory events, and we will work together to develop three well-designed thought experiments that address questions at the heart of this issue. Along the way, we will learn a bit about the acoustics of speech, social variation in speech, speech perception and spoken word recognition, memory, and experimental design and analysis. Students in this course should be committed to reading the assignments, sharing their ideas about the readings (without concern for 'being right'), and think creatively about ways we can explore the idea of earwitness memory together. While this is a one-quarter course, my goal is to pursue our thought experiments collaboratively, with any interested students in subsequent quarters.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 55N:
Language in the City
Language communicates a great deal more than the meaning of our words. Our regional accents, for example, offer clues about where we grew up. And even though accents are usually labeled in geographical terms, their symbolic meanings extend far beyond mere coordinates on a map. When we hear a New Yorker, we not only wonder whether they¿re from Brooklyn, but also conjecture about the kind of person they are: they might prefer to walk down the street quickly over strolling, they might enjoy lively conversations where people talk over one another, and they might tend to express their opinions bluntly. This seminar explores the linguistic practices and social meaning of accents spoken in San Francisco. nClass participants will collectively choose a neighborhood in San Francisco for in-depth examination. Through a series of field trips (once every two or three weeks), students will document the varieties of English spoken by lifelong residents of the neighborhood. Field assignments will consist primarily of observation and audio-recorded interviews. Interviews will serve as data for linguistic analysis (transcription, quantitative analysis of a linguistic feature of interest) throughout the term. Linguistic patterns will be analyzed in relation to salient social issues in the community, which will be identified in both interview content and historical records.nUpon completing the seminar, students will have (a) learned how to treat language as an object of scientific analysis, (b) developed an understanding of the social ramifications of linguistic practice, (c) gained fieldwork skills in general and interviewing skills in particular, and (d) come to appreciate the diversity of experiences in an urban community near Stanford.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 55S:
Language, Speech, and Social interaction
We use language to communicate every day, but we take its complex and dynamic nature for granted. This introduction to Linguistics will ask students to rethink their assumptions about language and communication as it approaches the field with a special focus on speech and social interactions. The course is grounded in the production and perception of speech sounds: its physiological basis, its acoustic signal form, and its cognitive process of perception. From this foundation, the course will move on to explore how the subtle variation and change of sounds is used to construct identity, foster relationships, and shape community. We will also investigate how exciting linguistic research sheds light on important contemporary social debates and on speech technology. Throughout the course, students will supplement readings, exercises, and discussion with lab sessions that will teach them how to manipulate and analyze speech sound recordings. Their accumulated theoretical and practical knowledge will find its expression in an intensive research project drawing on social media data. There is no prerequisite for this course.
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 61S:
Language Evolution and Change
Every human culture has a sophisticated, systematic means of communication which we call "language". Why? What makes languages the way they are, and what makes them keep changing over time? In this course, we will explore proposed explanations for language evolution and their connections to language change. In doing so, we will address a major roadblock in scientific inquiry: how do you study something you can't directly observe? Language evolution left no fossils behind, so how can different proposed explanations for it be evaluated? We will examine the argumentation behind different proposed explanations and the various methodologies that have been used to support them. Students will put to practice the knowledge and critical thinking skills gained from this course by developing and workshopping their own research project proposals. Students taking the course for 3 units will be expected to complete a project proposal and peer review in addition to the regular assignments.
Last offered: Summer 2018
| Units: 2-3
LINGUIST 65:
African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21, CSRE 21, LINGUIST 265)
Vocabulary, pronunciation and grammatical features of the systematic and vibrant vernacular English [AAVE] spoken by African Americans in the US, its historical relation to British dialects, and to English creoles spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The course will also explore the role of AAVE in the Living Arts of African Americans, as exemplified by writers, preachers, comedians and actors, singers, toasters and rappers, and its connections with challenges that AAVE speakers face in the classroom and courtroom. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). UNITS: 3-5 units. Most students should register for 4 units. Students willing and able to tutor an AAVE speaking child in East Palo Alto and write an additional paper about the experience may register for 5 units, but should consult the instructor first. Students who, for exceptional reasons, need a reduced course load, may request a reduction to 3 units, but more of their course grade will come from exams, and they will be excluded from group participation in the popular AAVE Happenin at the end of the course.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 67S:
The Role of Language in Perception and Cognition
One of the driving questions in linguistics involves the relationship between language and cognition: what do the properties of language tell us about the nature of our thinking and reasoning? Whorf's theory of linguistic relativism, made famous in popular science, suggests that the structures and patterns of the language(s) we speak constrain the way we think. This hypothesis, and the data that motivated it, have been the subject of much debate in the linguistic literature over the past few decades.This course introduces methods and ideas in modern linguistics through the lens of this debate. We first discuss Whorf's original hypothesis, and then examine arguments and data for strong and weak interpretations of linguistic relativism. We look at data from languages that differ structurally and conceptually from English, including languages that divide the colour spectrum differently, languages that lack numerals beyond the low single digits, and languages that use geographical coordinate systems (north, south, etc) instead of speaker-oriented ones (left, right). We consider how to use these differences to investigate a potential connection between language and cognitive capacities, focusing on understanding and critiquing recent research and experimental work in these areas.
Last offered: Summer 2018
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 83Q:
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?
Last offered: Winter 2019
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 105:
Phonetics (LINGUIST 205A)
Every time you speak a word, you say it differently than the time before. Getting all the movements used during speech production to produce an exact repetition of a word is nearly impossible. Your friends and family also vary in how they say words, and this variation differs across speech styles, emotions, and social communities. Imagine that. Our minds encounter thousands of different productions of a single word, but somehow identify it as one word, and not another. Phonetics is the systematic study of the articulation, acoustics, and perception in speech and can help us explain how different talkers vary their speech, how information from speech is used by listeners to understand one another, and how listeners store social and linguistic information in memory. Through lectures, class activities, and weekly lab assignments, this class highlights both the complexity of the physical nature of speech production, how we can understand the resulting acoustic signal, and how that signal is interpreted and understood by listeners. By the end of this course, you will be able to (1) look at a visual representation of speech and understand what you are looking at; (2) manipulate speech samples to understand how listeners experience language and categorize different speech sounds; (3) understand the processes involved in articulating speech sounds; (4) explain how linguistic segments interact with cues to emotion, gender, and other macro-social attributes; and (5) identify the ways an understanding of speech variation can be used to advance our understanding of spoken language understanding my humans and machines. We will be using the software program Praat (https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/) weekly, beginning the first week of class. Please download the program and have it installed on your computer before class begins.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SMA
LINGUIST 107:
Phonetic Transcription
This course will introduce you to the International Phonetic Alphabet, which we will use to transcribe and understand sound patterns across a diverse set of languages. In order to effectively transcribe languages phonetically, you will also learn about the articulatory properties of each sound of the worlds languages and how to produce each sound (even those that are not native to you) in isolation and in various contexts. You will also gain practical skills in recording and labeling acoustic files in Praat (a program for acoustic analysis and other phonetic work). The final project for the class, which will take place in the final two weeks of the course, will involve applying the skills you learned towards describing and transcribing patterns of variation in a language or dialect that you do not speak.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 108:
Articulatory Phonetics
This course is an introduction to articulatory phonetics, the production of speech. Students will learn about the articulatory features that characterize speech sounds and the physical mechanisms that underlie them. The course will also cover the methods used to measure articulation, the relationship between articulation and the resulting acoustic characteristics, and the cognitive processes underlying speech production.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| 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. Prerequisite: Linguist 1 or Linguist 105
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 112:
Seminar in Phonology: Stress, Tone, and Accent
Stress, tone, and accent systems vary widely, sometimes even within closely related language groups. Adding to their linguistic allure are their interactions with morphology and syntax, and with one another. Stress, tone, and accent are often also closely linked to phonological quantity and syllable structure. nnThis course will survey the different behaviors of stress, tone, and accent systems in the languages of the world. Decades of work on this topic has led to fundamental changes in how we represent phonological structure. While we will analyze a few systems deeply in order to get at the heart of the topic, an even bigger aim will be breadth of coverage. The result will be a better empirical grasp of the underpinnings of the typology of accentual systems.
Last offered: Spring 2018
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 116A:
Introduction to Word-Formation
This course provides an introduction to word formation in the world¿s languages. It investigates the notion of word, the internal structure of words, the relation between a word's structure and its meaning, and processes for forming new words. Data will be drawn from a range of languages with an emphasis on English. Prerequisites: One of Linguist 1, 110, 121A, 121B, 130A, or 130B, or permission of instructor
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 121A:
The Syntax of English
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: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 121B:
Crosslinguistic Syntax
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 127:
Linguistic Meaning and Legal Interpretation (LINGUIST 227)
This course applies analytical concepts from semantics and pragmatics to the interpretation of legal texts. It critically examines methods and theories of legal interpretation, such as 'textualism', 'intentionalism', 'originalism'. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A, or PHIL 181/281, or permission of instructor
Last offered: Spring 2020
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 130A:
Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 230A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include logical semantics, conversational implicature, presupposition, and speech acts. 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 attend section. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 1, SYMSYS 1 (LINGUIST 35), 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. We explore grammatical regularities in word meaning and the relation between word meaning and the conceptual realm. The questions we address include the following. How is the meaning of a word determined from its internal structure? How can simple words have complex meanings? What is a possible word? How does a word's meaning determine the word's syntactic distribution and what kind of reasoning does it support? What kind of information belongs to the lexical entry of a word? The course will show that the investigation¿of the linguistic and semantic structure of words draws on the full resources of linguistic theory and methodology. Prerequisites: SYMSYS1, LINGUIST1, LINGUIST35, 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, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 132:
Lexical Semantic Typology
This course surveys how languages express members of the basic conceptual categories entity, event, property, and spatial relation. It examines strategies languages use to name members of these categories, and factors that might influence the choices languages make. Relatedly, it explores similarities and differences among languages in the sets of words they have to express notions within various conceptual domains. Restricted to undergraduates. Prerequisites: Linguist 116A, 121A, 121B, 130A, or 130B, or permission of the instructor
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 134A:
The Structure of Discourse: Theory and Applications (LINGUIST 234)
This course examines the linguistic structure of discourse, with a particular emphasis on learning to identify the emergent structures of spontaneous conversations. Specific topics include inference and implicature, discourse cohesion, turn-taking, discourse markers, narrative, and reference. Through class discussions and hands-on data analysis, students will explore how the structure of discourse is shaped by cognition, grammar, and social relationships. Prerequisite: Linguist 1, 121A, 121B, 130A, 130B, 145, 150, or 155F
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 140:
Learning to Speak: An Introduction to Child Language Acquisition
None of us were born talking. We all had to learn it. How did we do that? We start the journey by looking at the perception of sounds before birth. We follow infants as they discover the sounds of their native languages. We talk about how the infant mind breaks the speech stream into words, phrases, and sentences; how it makes sense of language and uses it to convey thoughts and feelings. We finish by discussing how the majority of children in the world learn two or more languages at once. The course content will introduce you to major topics in child language acquisition. Assignments will help you develop skills in collecting, analyzing, and reporting empirical data. The class project involves collecting data from children at the Bing Nursery school on campus as well as the analysis of a large dataset of children's speech online. Class discussion and projects focus on giving you a hands-on experience with critical and scientific thinking.
Last offered: Spring 2018
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
LINGUIST 145:
Introduction to Psycholinguistics (LINGUIST 245A, 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 theoretical 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 include language acquisition, speech perception, word recognition, sentence processing, sentence production, and discourse and inference.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 150:
Language and Society
This course explores the social life of spoken language. Students learn to address the following big questions about language and society: Why do languages vary across different time periods, locations, and social groups? What do our opinions about the way other people speak tell us about society? How do our social identities and goals influence the way we speak? And how do we use language to alter our social relationships?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 150E:
Who Speaks Good English
Many people have strong beliefs that there are right and wrong ways of speaking, good and bad versions of their language. These norms are reinforced explicitly in the education system, and implicitly in the ways that people talk about language or see it portrayed in media. Students will learn about the history, development, and linguistic structure of three language varieties that are sometimes characterized by non-linguists as "bad English": Singaporean English, Jamaican Creole, and African American Vernacular English. By critically examining public discourses about these language varieties and learning to identify their systematic patterns of grammatical structure, students will discover that popular ideas about "good" and "bad" English are rooted in the narratives that surround language, not linguistic fact.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| Units: 4
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: Winter 2019
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 154:
Language, Race, and Ethnicity
This course explores the co-articulation of language, race, and ethnicity with a particular emphasis on race relations in US contexts. We will examine the varieties of English spoken by minoritized racial/ethnic groups in conjunction with theories from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and adjacent social sciences to problematize common notions surrounding race and language. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required for this course.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 155F:
Language and Social Interaction (LINGUIST 255F)
This course explores linguistic structure in the contexts of everyday social interaction. Through readings and hands-on data analysis, students will learn to address the following big questions: How are everyday social interactions structured, and why is this structure typically invisible to us? How do social goals, relationships, and identities influence the linguistic structure of interactions? Students who have already taken LINGUIST 134A/234 should not enroll in this course.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 156:
Language, Gender, & Sexuality (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: Spr
| 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. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit. Prerequisite: 105, 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 1-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
LINGUIST 160:
Historical Linguistics
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
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: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 168:
Introduction to Linguistic Typology
This course covers the foundations of the linguistic subfield concerned with comparing and classifying world languages. The course provides an overview of the analytic tools which may be used to identify and classify a language based on its phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties, and explores the major ways in which languages may be similar or different in these domains. Students will acquire a useful toolkit for studying novel, unusual, and typologically diverse linguistic data, and for conducting fieldwork on understudied languages. Prerequisites: Linguist 110, 121A, 121B, 130A, 130B, or permission of the instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 173:
Invented Languages
This course examines constructed languages, which are languages that were invented rather than arising naturally. We will cover the components that characterize a language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and writing systems. These characteristics vary among languages of the world, so constructing a language involves many decisions about each of these characteristics. Using the tools of linguistic theory, we will analyze examples of constructed languages, both those from fiction (e.g. Klingon, High Valyrian, Sindarin) and those intended for real-world usage (e.g. Esperanto). Students will each construct their own language based on the concepts we discuss.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 180:
From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 280)
Extracting meaning, information, and structure from human language text, speech, web pages, social networks. Introducing methods (regex, edit distance, naive Bayes, logistic regression, neural embeddings, inverted indices, collaborative filtering, PageRank), applications (chatbots, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, question answering, text classification, social networks, recommender systems), and ethical issues in both. Prerequisites: CS106B, Python (at the level of CS106A), CS109 (or equivalent background in probability), and programming maturity and knowledge of UNIX equivalent to CS107 (or taking CS107 or CS1U concurrently).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR
Instructors: ;
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Akintan, M. (TA);
Buch, D. (TA);
Gurusankar, G. (TA);
Kacharia, N. (TA);
Lee, H. (TA);
Leon, A. (TA);
McAvity, J. (TA);
Mukherjee, A. (TA);
Nabi, F. (TA);
Oyeniyi, T. (TA);
Phatak, U. (TA);
Ryan, M. (TA);
Santiago, F. (TA);
Wu, J. (TA);
Xiao, J. (TA)
LINGUIST 188:
Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 288, SYMSYS 195U)
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: CS 224N or CS 224S (This is a smaller number of courses than previously.)
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
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.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| 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
2 times
(up to 6 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);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (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);
Sims, N. (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);
Chan, A. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hilton, K. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (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);
Sims, N. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 200:
Foundations of Linguistic Theory
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. Theories that have shaped contemporary linguistics; recurrent themes and descriptive practice. Strong background in Linguistics or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 200C:
Foundations of Linguistic Theory: Categories and Concepts
This course investigates foundational issues and recurrent themes in linguistics related to the notions of category and concept. It will review traditional approaches to these notions and consider how they have shaped more recent developments in our understanding. Possible topics include: the world-to-word mapping, the relation between cognitive and grammatical categories, arbitrariness vs. regularity in the grammatical properties of words, and the nature of lexical categories. The discussion will be grounded in lexical semantics, but students will have an opportunity to examine how categorization figures in other areas of linguistics. Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students.nnPrerequisites: Graduate-level background in Linguistics or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2021
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 205A:
Phonetics (LINGUIST 105)
Every time you speak a word, you say it differently than the time before. Getting all the movements used during speech production to produce an exact repetition of a word is nearly impossible. Your friends and family also vary in how they say words, and this variation differs across speech styles, emotions, and social communities. Imagine that. Our minds encounter thousands of different productions of a single word, but somehow identify it as one word, and not another. Phonetics is the systematic study of the articulation, acoustics, and perception in speech and can help us explain how different talkers vary their speech, how information from speech is used by listeners to understand one another, and how listeners store social and linguistic information in memory. Through lectures, class activities, and weekly lab assignments, this class highlights both the complexity of the physical nature of speech production, how we can understand the resulting acoustic signal, and how that signal is interpreted and understood by listeners. By the end of this course, you will be able to (1) look at a visual representation of speech and understand what you are looking at; (2) manipulate speech samples to understand how listeners experience language and categorize different speech sounds; (3) understand the processes involved in articulating speech sounds; (4) explain how linguistic segments interact with cues to emotion, gender, and other macro-social attributes; and (5) identify the ways an understanding of speech variation can be used to advance our understanding of spoken language understanding my humans and machines. We will be using the software program Praat (https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/) weekly, beginning the first week of class. Please download the program and have it installed on your computer before class begins.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 206A:
Phonetics Seminar 1: Adaptive Resonance Theory
In this course we will explore speech perception, attention, memory, categorization, and social weighting from a dynamic systems perspective. We will consider language and social variation through the lens of Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory, focusing on interactions of at least two areas that are typically investigated independently of one another. Throughout the quarter we will learn about foundational ideas and methods in these areas. Each student will build an annotated bibliography on a topic of interest, present articles outside of the main text, and prepare a proposed study, with time to pursue the project the following quarter.
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 207A:
Advanced Phonetics: Adaptive Resonance Theory
In this course we will explore speech perception, attention, memory, categorization, and social weighting from a dynamic systems perspective. We will consider language and social variation through the lens of Grossberg¿s Adaptive Resonance Theory, focusing on interactions of at least two areas that are typically investigated independently of one another. Throughout the quarter we will learn about foundational ideas and methods in these areas. Each student will build an annotated bibliography on a topic of interest, present articles outside of the main text, and prepare a proposed study, with time to pursue the project the following quarter.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 207B:
Advanced Phonetics: Practical Research in Attention, Perception, and Memory
This course is a project-based course focused on research in attention, perception, memory, and social variation. Students will either conduct a study proposed in the fall quarter or join a team with an existing proposed study. The course will focus on linking research questions with design, identifying predictions associated with relevant theories, carrying out collaborative research, and being thoughtful about data and supported versus speculative claims. It is expected that students will begin data collection by the end of the quarter for a project that embraces the complexity of spoken language processing.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 207L:
Phonetics Research Lab
Regular meetings of the members of the Phonetics Lab.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
LINGUIST 208:
Memory for Spoken Words
Research on memory for spoken words altered the course of much research in phonetics and psycholinguistics since the 1990s. In 2019, though, we are facing three main issues: (1) Much work was unmoved by this seminal work, carrying assumptions that need to be clearly thought through and addressed, (2) We still have no clear grasp of all the intricacies and predictions of this earlier work, and (3) Redundancy in research exists, where parts of our field appear to be caught in a loop. This seminar will be reading and discussion based, focusing on work related to each of these three points. Students will be expected to read two papers a week (one course paper, and one paper cited within that work) to bring us to a clear picture of past work. In addition, the final project involves close collaboration between each student and me, to arrive at a novel and feasible study proposal that addresses one of these three issues, with the expectation that the study will be conducted in the Spring and/or Summer quarters.
Last offered: Winter 2020
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 9 units total)
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 rules and constraints; phonological typology and universals; the phonology/morphology interface; Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar. Prerequisites: Linguist 110 or consent of instructor
Terms: Spr
| 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 2023
| 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: Spring 2019
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 212:
Experimental Evidence for Sound Change
This course is a seminar on how experimental work can provide evidence for sound change, both to shed light on the general mechanisms of how sound changes occur and also what specific developments are plausible, particularly when the comparative evidence is ambiguous or the phonetic characteristics of the reconstructed categories are under consideration. The course explores the processes that lead to changes, including biases that exist in perception and production and shifts in how the phonology maps onto the phonetic details, and what predictions they make. We will examine some of the experimental methods that provide evidence for sound change, and discuss which aspects of these approaches parallel diachronic change and what aspects are limitations for the parallel.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 215:
Corpus Phonology: Sentence Prosody
Prosodic prominence at the sentence level from phonological, syntactic, and discourse perspectives. The course combines lectures with hands-on corpus work, with the opportunity to develop joint projects.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
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. A graduate-level course in syntax or phonology required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 217:
Morphosyntax
An investigation of central issues in the study of the interface between syntax and morphology as well as its relation to semantic interpretation. Topics may include: the internal structure of words, valence-changing morphology, incorporation, compounding, inflection (e.g. case, agreement) and cliticization. The course draws on data from a range of languages and aims to explore various theoretical approaches. Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 222A:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory I
The first course in the three-course graduate-level sequence in syntax. The course focuses on core theoretical ideas and empirical phenomena in the study of syntactic theory. Some of the specific topics include phrase structure, head movement, A-movement, case and agreement, raising and control, argument structure, binding, and the structure of clauses and nominals. The practical aim of this course is to develop a solid conceptual, analytical and empirical basis for research in syntax; this includes the honing of syntactic argumentation skills, which is accomplished through written work and in-class discussion. Prerequisites: Linguistics 121A or 121B, or permission of the instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 222B:
Foundations of Syntactic Theory II
The second course in the graduate-level sequence in syntax. The course focuses on the properties of movement and its place in the overall architecture of grammar. We will be concerned with the nature of unbounded dependency constructions such as constituent questions, topicalization, relative clauses, clefts, and others. Some of the specific themes include A-bar movement, locality and constraints on extraction, successive cyclicity, as well as crosslinguistic variation in the way unbounded dependencies are established. The practical aim of this course is to further develop a solid conceptual, analytical and empirical basis for research in syntax; this includes the honing of syntactic argumentation skills, which is accomplished through written work and in-class discussion.
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.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 225:
Seminar in Syntax
Seminar on advanced topics in syntax. Topics may vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 225D:
Seminar in Syntax: Advanced Topics
Seminar on advanced topics in syntax. Topics may vary from year to year. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 222A and 222B, or permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2018
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
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
for credit
(up to 99 units total)
LINGUIST 227:
Linguistic Meaning and Legal Interpretation (LINGUIST 127)
This course applies analytical concepts from semantics and pragmatics to the interpretation of legal texts. It critically examines methods and theories of legal interpretation, such as 'textualism', 'intentionalism', 'originalism'. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A, or PHIL 181/281, or permission of instructor
Last offered: Spring 2020
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 230A:
Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 130A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include logical semantics, conversational implicature, presupposition, and speech acts. 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 attend section. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 1, SYMSYS 1 (LINGUIST 35), consent of instructor, or graduate standing in Linguistics
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 230B:
Advanced Semantics
The primary goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in semantics and pragmatics that are central to research in those fields. The course is aimed at advanced students who plan to do research in semantics, pragmatics, or philosophy of language. Prerequisites:¿LINGUIST 130A/230A or permission from instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 230C:
Advanced Topics in Semantics & Pragmatics
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
5 times
(up to 20 units total)
LINGUIST 230P:
Advanced Pragmatics
The primary goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in pragmatics from a computational perspective. The course surveys probabilistic models for natural language semantics and pragmatics. It begins with an introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework for modeling pragmatics as social reasoning. It then explores a variety of phenomena in utterance production and interpretation. Probabilistic programming will be used as a precise and practical way to express models. The course is aimed at advanced graduate students who plan to do research in semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, or philosophy of language. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2020
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 231A:
Lexical and Compositional Semantics
Semantic properties of verbs and nouns, integrating lexical and compositional issues. Potential topics include aspect, argument relations, events, and the mass/count distinction. Points will be enriched by drawing on related insights from linguistic typology and cognitive science. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 130A/230A, LINGUIST 130B, or permission of instructor.
| Units: 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. Prerequisites: Linguist 130A, Linguist 130B, or permission of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 232B:
Seminar in Lexical Semantics: Objecthood
An examination of the syntactic and semantic dimensions of objecthood from theoretical, typological, and empirical perspectives. The treatment of objects in different theoretical frameworks, including whether there is a primitive notion of 'object'. Potential topics include: double object constructions, cognate and location objects, nonselected objects, differential object marking, unaccusativity, as well as semantic correlates of objecthood such as affectedness and telicity. May be repeated for credit with different content. Prerequisites: Linguist 222A or 232A or permission of the instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 234:
The Structure of Discourse: Theory and Applications (LINGUIST 134A)
This course examines the linguistic structure of discourse, with a particular emphasis on learning to identify the emergent structures of spontaneous conversations. Specific topics include inference and implicature, discourse cohesion, turn-taking, discourse markers, narrative, and reference. Through class discussions and hands-on data analysis, students will explore how the structure of discourse is shaped by cognition, grammar, and social relationships. Prerequisite: Linguist 1, 121A, 121B, 130A, 130B, 145, 150, or 155F
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 236:
Seminar in Semantics: Conditionals
Discussion of the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals with a focus on recent developments in linguistics, analytic philosophy, and cognitive psychology.
Last offered: Winter 2021
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 236S:
Construction of Meaning Research Seminar
Presentation of ongoing research in semantics and pragmatics. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 10 units total)
LINGUIST 238B:
Probabilistic Models of Cognition: Language (CS 428B, PSYCH 220B)
How can we understand natural language use in computational terms? This course surveys probabilistic models for natural language semantics and pragmatics. It begins with an introduction to the Rational Speech Acts framework for modeling pragmatics as social reasoning. It then explores a variety of phenomena in language meaning and usage. Probabilistic programming will be used as a precise and practical way to express models.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 245A:
Introduction to Psycholinguistics (LINGUIST 145, 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 theoretical 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 include language acquisition, speech perception, word recognition, sentence processing, sentence production, and discourse and inference.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 245B:
Methods in Psycholinguistics (SYMSYS 195L)
Over the past 20 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, and eye-tracking. Students will present and discuss research articles, but the bulk of the course is project-based: students will run an experiment (either a replication or an original design, if conducive to the student's research) to gain hands-on experience with experimental design and web-based experimentation; data management, analysis, and visualization in R; and open science tools like git/GitHub and pre-registration.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 247:
Seminar in Psycholinguistics: Advanced Topics (PSYCH 227)
Adaptation to speaker variability in language use has receivednincreasing attention in recent years from linguists and psychologistsnalike, who have recognized that, though long ignored, it poses a problemnfor static theories of language. The course will present a broad surveynof recent work in this area across levels of linguistic representation,nincluding phonetic, lexical, syntactic, prosodic, and semanto-pragmaticnadaptation. We will discuss the cognitive underpinnings of adaptationnand its relation to priming and learning, compare adaptation in varyingndomains, and consider the implications for theories of language andncommunication. The course will be organized primarily around discussionnof assigned readings. Students will develop a research proposal relevantnto issues in adaptation. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 145 or background in any subfield of linguistics
Last offered: Autumn 2020
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 247L:
Alps Research Lab
Regular meetings of members of the Alps Lab.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
LINGUIST 249L:
Workshop on Incremental Language Processing (PSYCH 249L)
Language is processed incrementally over time. This has consequences for language comprehension, production, acquisition, and change, all of which occur at different timescales. What is the role of time in language? 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: Spring 2018
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
LINGUIST 250:
Sociolinguistic Theory and Analysis
This is a seminar-style course for graduate students in linguistics and advanced students with a background in sociolinguistics. Through readings, discussions, and weekly response papers, we will explore the development of major themes and questions in the field of sociolinguistics.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 251:
Ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics
This course will introduce students to ethnographic methods as they have been used in sociolinguistics and adjacent fields (e.g., linguistic anthropology). Students will collectively design a small study, collect data, and begin to analyze this data using a number of methods such as: participant observation; fieldnotes; semi-structured interviews; and grounded theory. Students will also individually develop a larger study by writing a grant proposal that incorporates the methodologies we cover in this course. While this course is taught through a sociolinguistic lens, anyone interested in learning more about ethnographic methods can join.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| 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.
Last offered: Winter 2019
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 253:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Formations (ANTHRO 320A, CSRE 389A, EDUC 389A, SYMSYS 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: 3-5
LINGUIST 254:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography (ANTHRO 398B, CSRE 389B, 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.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| 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 Amador County. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 255C:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistics in the Chinese Diaspora
"Sociolinguistics in the Chinese Diaspora" is a graduate seminar that explores the intersection of language, culture, and identity among Chinese communities spread across different parts of the world, with a specific emphasis on the North American Diaspora. The course covers a range of topics, including bilingualism, code-switching, language variation, and language ideologies within the Chinese diaspora. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 1, LINGUIST 150, LINGUIST 105/205A, or permission of instructor
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 255E:
BAD Lab: Scholarly Communication in Education (CSRE 387, EDUC 487)
This seminar gives doctoral students an overview of scholarly communication in education in areas related to the BAD Lab. In the first half, we focus on publication including: publishing journal articles and books. We also examine multimedia communication, including: giving research talks, job talks, and interviews. In the second half of the course, we focus on reviewing, editing, and the politics and economics of publishing in education and related areas.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
LINGUIST 255F:
Language and Social Interaction (LINGUIST 155F)
This course explores linguistic structure in the contexts of everyday social interaction. Through readings and hands-on data analysis, students will learn to address the following big questions: How are everyday social interactions structured, and why is this structure typically invisible to us? How do social goals, relationships, and identities influence the linguistic structure of interactions? Students who have already taken LINGUIST 134A/234 should not enroll in this course.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 255I:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Class Stratification of the California Vowel Shift in Sacramento
Models of the role of socioeconomic class in the spread of sound change are based on studies in cities that have had a stable English-speaking population for several centuries. The question underlying this seminar is whether this model applies to California, whose dialect is in the early stages of development and whose cities have, for example, no major industrial history. We will use data from the Voices of California fieldsite in Sacramento to examine the role of class in the California Vowel Shift.
Last offered: Spring 2020
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
LINGUIST 255J:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Style
Last offered: Winter 2021
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 255K:
Constructed Dialogue
This seminar explores constructed dialogue from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The course is intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates with a background in discourse analysis and variation analysis. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 134A/234 and LINGUIST 258 or permission from the instructors.her universities.)
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 255L:
Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Multiracial Identity in Variation Studies
This course confronts the challenge of investigating linguistic variation among multiracial speakers. Hands-on individual and collaborative projects using the voices of California corpus. Prerequisite: Linguistics 258 or equivalent, no exceptions.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 1-4
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: Autumn 2022
| 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. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit. Prerequisite: 105, 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 257L:
Interactional Phonetics Research Lab
Sociophonetic, discourse-analytic, and computational approaches to social interaction. Meetings consist of presentations of research, discussions of readings, and collaborative research project work. Prerequisites: Linguist 250, Linguist 258, or Linguist 258A
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 258A:
Variation and Social Meaning
The social meaning of linguistic variation. Approaches to investigating social meaning, encoding meaning across different levels of language, the structure of meaning and theories of indexicality, the role of meaning in language change.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 259A:
Introduction to Contact Linguistics
Language contact occurs when the speakers of two or more languages or varieties come interact with each other. In this introduction to Contact Linguistics, you will learn some of the structural outcomes of contact as they relate to the communities and individuals coming into contact. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor only.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 259L:
CVC Research Lab
Regular meetings of the Contact, Variation, and Change Research Lab. Meetings consist of presentations of research, discussions of readings, and collaborative research project work.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 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: Autumn 2019
| 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.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 265:
African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21, CSRE 21, LINGUIST 65)
Vocabulary, pronunciation and grammatical features of the systematic and vibrant vernacular English [AAVE] spoken by African Americans in the US, its historical relation to British dialects, and to English creoles spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The course will also explore the role of AAVE in the Living Arts of African Americans, as exemplified by writers, preachers, comedians and actors, singers, toasters and rappers, and its connections with challenges that AAVE speakers face in the classroom and courtroom. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). UNITS: 3-5 units. Most students should register for 4 units. Students willing and able to tutor an AAVE speaking child in East Palo Alto and write an additional paper about the experience may register for 5 units, but should consult the instructor first. Students who, for exceptional reasons, need a reduced course load, may request a reduction to 3 units, but more of their course grade will come from exams, and they will be excluded from group participation in the popular AAVE Happenin at the end of the course.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| Units: 3-5
LINGUIST 267:
Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 457A, CSRE 267, EDUC 457)
This course introduces students to central concepts and approaches in linguistic anthropology, with a specific focus on the role of educational institutions, processes, and ideologies in shaping language use and vice versa. Students will learn practical skills for conducting linguistic anthropological fieldwork, including strategies for recording, editing, transcribing, analyzing, and archiving multimodal discourse data. The overarching goal is for students to gain a theoretical and methodological toolkit for examining and understanding how semiotic processes structure and transform sociocultural life.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| Units: 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: Spring 2022
| 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: Spring 2021
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
LINGUIST 274A:
Linguistic Field Methods I
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 2022
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 274B:
Linguistic 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 2022
| 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 276E:
Stanford Black Academic Lab: Community-Based Participatory Methods (AFRICAAM 488, CSRE 388, EDUC 488)
This lab-based course is an overview of research methods that are used in the development of Black educators, including survey research, individual and focus group interviews, ethnographic methods, and documentary activism. Lab participants will be guided through critical thinking about the professional and personal development of Black educators while assessing the utility and relevance of research-based responses to that development in partnership with a particular educational organization or agency.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| 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, social networks. Introducing methods (regex, edit distance, naive Bayes, logistic regression, neural embeddings, inverted indices, collaborative filtering, PageRank), applications (chatbots, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, question answering, text classification, social networks, recommender systems), and ethical issues in both. Prerequisites: CS106B, Python (at the level of CS106A), CS109 (or equivalent background in probability), and programming maturity and knowledge of UNIX equivalent to CS107 (or taking CS107 or CS1U concurrently).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors: ;
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Akintan, M. (TA);
Buch, D. (TA);
Gurusankar, G. (TA);
Kacharia, N. (TA);
Lee, H. (TA);
Leon, A. (TA);
McAvity, J. (TA);
Mukherjee, A. (TA);
Nabi, F. (TA);
Oyeniyi, T. (TA);
Phatak, U. (TA);
Ryan, M. (TA);
Santiago, F. (TA);
Wu, J. (TA);
Xiao, J. (TA)
LINGUIST 281A:
Race and Natural Language Processing (CS 329R, PSYCH 257A)
The goal of this practicum is to integrate methods from natural language processing with social psychological perspectives on race to build practical systems that address significant societal issues. Readings will be drawn broadly from across the social sciences and computer science. Students will work with large, complex datasets and participate in research involving community partnerships relevant to race and natural language processing. Prerequisite: CS224N, PSYCH290, or equivalent background in natural language processing. Students interested in participating should complete the online application for permission at https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs329r/. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 284:
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (CS 224N, SYMSYS 195N)
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, CS221, or CS229.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors: ;
Hashimoto, T. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Yang, D. (PI);
Agrawal, A. (TA);
Burns, K. (TA);
Chang, C. (TA);
Chang, J. (TA);
Chatterjee, S. (TA);
Chu, S. (TA);
Dai, T. (TA);
Ding, Z. (TA);
El Boudali, H. (TA);
Gao, Y. (TA);
Goldie, A. (TA);
Lee, A. (TA);
Lee, O. (TA);
Li, R. (TA);
Lim, D. (TA);
Liu, N. (TA);
Mahankali, A. (TA);
Nie, N. (TA);
Poole, R. (TA);
Salahi, K. (TA);
Sharma, A. (TA);
Singh, J. (TA);
Sriram, A. (TA);
Taori, R. (TA);
Verma, T. (TA);
Wang, A. (TA);
Wang, T. (TA);
Wu, J. (TA);
Yang, S. (TA);
Zhang, B. (TA);
Zhang, H. (TA);
Zhang, T. (TA);
Zhang, Y. (TA);
Ziems, C. (TA);
murty, S. (TA)
LINGUIST 285:
Spoken Language Processing (CS 224S)
Introduction to spoken language technology with an emphasis on dialogue and conversational systems. Deep learning and other methods for automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, affect detection, dialogue management, and applications to digital assistants and spoken language understanding systems. Prerequisites: CS124, CS221, CS224N, or CS229.
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.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 287:
Seminar on Ethical and Social Issues in Natural Language Processing (CS 384)
Seminar covering issues in natural language processing related to ethical and social issues and the overall impact of these algorithms on people and society. Topics include: bias in data and models, privacy and computational profiling, measuring civility and toxicity online, computational propaganda, manipulation and framing, fairness/equity, power, recommendations and filter bubbles, applications to social good, and philosophical foundations of ethical investigation. Prerequisites: CS 224N and 224U.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 288:
Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 188, SYMSYS 195U)
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: CS 224N or CS 224S (This is a smaller number of courses than previously.)
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 289L:
Computational Linguistics Research Lab
Regular meetings of the members of the Jurafsky Lab.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| 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);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sims, N. (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: Aut, 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 394:
TA Training Workshop
For second-year graduate students in Linguistics
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
LINGUIST 395:
Research Workshop
Restricted to Linguistics Ph.D. students. Student presentations of research toward qualifying papers. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| 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: ;
Anttila, A. (PI);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Goodman, N. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Sims, N. (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);
Bresnan, J. (PI);
Chan, A. (PI);
Clark, E. (PI);
Condoravdi, C. (PI);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hilton, K. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Phillips, J. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Polanyi, L. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Rosa, J. (PI);
Sims, N. (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);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hilton, K. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (PI);
Karttunen, L. (PI);
Kiparsky, P. (PI);
Lassiter, D. (PI);
Levin, B. (PI);
Manning, C. (PI);
Peters, S. (PI);
Phillips, J. (PI);
Podesva, R. (PI);
Potts, C. (PI);
Rickford, J. (PI);
Sanker, C. (PI);
Sims, N. (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);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (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);
Sims, N. (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);
Degen, J. (PI);
Eckert, P. (PI);
Frank, M. (PI);
Gribanov, V. (PI);
Harizanov, B. (PI);
Hubbard, P. (PI);
Jurafsky, D. (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);
Sims, N. (PI);
Sumner, M. (PI);
Wasow, T. (PI);
Zwicky, A. (PI)
