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This course investigates the theories, people, foundational issues, and recurrent themes that have shaped contemporary linguistics. Prerequisites: Graduate-level background in Linguistics or permission of instructor.

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.

The pronunciation of a word varies across different speakers, and even across different utterances produced by the same speaker. This course is an introduction to phonetics, covering articulation, acoustics, and perception. Students will gain basic skills in experimental phonetics, including instrumental analysis of speech production using phonetic software (Praat), interpreting behavioral responses in listening tasks, and using the International Phonetic Alphabet. By the end of this course, you will be able to (1) understand the processes involved in articulating speech sounds; (2) understand what acoustic patterns result from articulatory characteristics and how to identify visualizations of them; (3) manipulate speech samples to test how listeners experience language and categorize different speech sounds.

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.

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 various theories across the cognitive sciences, 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.

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.

This course explores the social and dynamic system that underlies human spoken language understanding. Discussions center around speech variation, perception, categorization, and memory, but also consider related areas in science and society. Meetings consist of original research presentations, guest speakers, collaborative research projects, project workshopping days, experimental design, and professional skills development.

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.