printer friendly pageLINGUIST 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
Instructors:
Hilton, K. (PI)
;
Krejci, B. (PI)
;
Brickhouse, C. (TA)
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Instructors:
Hilton, K. (PI)
;
Krejci, B. (PI)
;
Brickhouse, C. (TA)
;
Early, M. (TA)
;
Hermosillo, A. (TA)
;
Ragupathi, A. (TA)
;
Velasquez, T. (TA)
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
Instructors:
Sanker, C. (PI)
;
Yi, I. (TA)
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
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
Instructors:
Gribanov, V. (PI)
;
O'Reilly-Brown, M. (TA)
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 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 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
Instructors:
Lu, J. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Anttila, A. (PI)
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
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