LINGUIST 236: Seminar in Semantics: Formal semantics and the psychology of reasoning (PSYCH 236C)
Discussion of topics at the interface of natural language semantics and psychology of reasoning, such as conditionals, causal language, the language of uncertainty, generics, and syllogistic reasoning.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Goodman, N. (PI)
;
Lassiter, D. (PI)
LINGUIST 245: Methods in Psycholinguistics
Over the past ten 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, eye-tracking, ERPs, and corpus methods. A particular focus will be placed on a problem that runs through all measures and techniques: that of generating an appropriate linking hypothesis from theoretical predictions to an expected empirical response pattern. Students will discuss research articles and gain hands-on experience with experimental design and implementation, data management, analysis, and visualization in R.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Degen, J. (PI)
LINGUIST 248: Seminar in Developmental Psycholinguistics
Children's acquisition of word meaning, with particular emphasis on socio-pragmatic approaches vs. a priori constraints. Consideration of differences in acquisition by syntactic category (nouns versus verbs), by semantic domain, and by conversational frame, in considering how children build up a lexical repertoire.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Clark, E. (PI)
LINGUIST 254: Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography (ANTHRO 398B, 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Rosa, J. (PI)
LINGUIST 255G: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language & Embodiment
Topics vary by quarter. This course examines the role of the body (beyond speech articulators) in language use. Topics will include gesture, facial expression, physical stance, and hexis. Readings will be drawn from a variety of fields outside of linguistics. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 255H: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Iconicity
The nature of iconicity in language, with a focus on the role of sound symbolism in sociolinguistic variation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eckert, P. (PI)
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. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 267: Panini
Panini's "Astadhyayi", the most complete generative grammar of any language yet written, is the source of many of the principles and formal techniques of modern linguistic theory. Remarkably, in Pa 'n.ini's work these emerge just from jointly maximizing empirical coverage and minimizing description length. We review the overall organization of his grammar and its motivation, the levels of representation, the types of rules and constraints, and the principles that govern their application and interaction. Among the specific aspects of the analysis that we will examine are the thematic role-based syntax, the lexicalist analysis of word-formation and inflection, and the stratally organized phonology. Course is 4 units. May be taken for fewer units with prior approval from instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Kiparsky, P. (PI)
LINGUIST 280: From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 180)
Extracting meaning, information, and structure from human language text, speech, web pages, genome sequences, social networks. Methods include: string algorithms, edit distance, language modeling, the noisy channel, naive Bayes, inverted indices, collaborative filtering, PageRank. Applications such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, text classification, social network models, chatbots, genomic sequence alignment, spell checking, speech processing, recommender systems. Prerequisite:
CS103,
CS107,
CS109.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Jurafsky, D. (PI)
LINGUIST 284: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (CS 224N)
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 or
CS121/221.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Manning, C. (PI)
;
Socher, R. (PI)
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