printer friendly pageLINGUIST 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: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 47N: Languages, Dialects, Speakers
Preference to freshmen. Variation and change in languages from around the world; the roots, historical development, and 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
Instructors:
Anttila, A. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Geda, K. (PI)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Sumner, M. (PI)
LINGUIST 121: Crosslinguistic Syntax
A data-driven introduction to the methods of syntactic analysis, and their results. Emphasis is on understanding how languages are systematically alike and different in their basic sentence structure. 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. Draws on data from a diverse array of the world's languages, including but not limited to English. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics if taken for 4 units
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
Instructors:
Gribanov, V. (PI)
;
Krejci, B. (TA)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Rickford, J. (PI)
LINGUIST 156: Language and Gender (FEMGEN 156X)
The role of language in the construction of gender, the maintenance of the gender order, and social change. Field projects explore hypotheses about the interaction of language and gender. No knowledge of linguistics required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Eckert, P. (PI)
;
Calder, J. (TA)
LINGUIST 162: History Through Language
What we can learn about the human past through human language, especially where proper historical records are absent. Studying population migrations through language spread. Different types of change in different social environments: grammatical "simplification" of imperial languages vs. complexity of tribal languages. Effects of contact on languages. Methods for reconstructing linguistic past: comparative method, linguistic paleontology, computational phylogenetic methods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI)
LINGUIST 171: Iberian Languages: Structure, Variation & Context
The course will center on Iberian languages with a special focus on Catalan. We will consider the relation between language structure and other factors, such as language variation in space and time, and sociological and political factors. Topics will include a contrastive analysis of selected features of Iberian languages, a survey of dialectal variation in some of the languages of the area and of their external linguistic history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bonet Alsina, M. (PI)
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).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
MacCartney, B. (PI)
;
Potts, C. (PI)
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