printer friendly pageLINGUIST 255: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Contact Linguistics
Classical and recent works in contact linguistics including Weinreich, Tudgill, Winford. May be repeated for credit.
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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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Eckert, P. (PI)
LINGUIST 260A: Historical Morphology and Phonology
Sound change and analogical change in the perspective of linguistic theory. Internal and comparative reconstruction.
LINGUIST 260B: Historical Morphosyntax
Morphological and syntactic variation and change. Reanalysis, grammaticalization. The use of corpora and quantitative evidence.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Kiparsky, P. (PI)
LINGUIST 265: African American Vernacular English (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 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Rickford, J. (PI)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
LINGUIST 278: Programming for Linguists
Computer programming techniques for collecting and analyzing data in linguistic research. Introduction to the UNIX, regular expressions, and Python scripting. Hands-on experience gathering, formatting, and manipulating corpus, field, and experimental data, combining data from multiple sources, and working with existing tools. Knowledge of computer programming not required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Potts, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Jurafsky, D. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Flickinger, D. (PI)
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