Graduate Program
Term Schedule
Fall 2017
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LIN 405 (LIN 205)
ABTAHIAN M
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the principles of linguistic variation and change, and to examine their practical application in the interdisciplinary subfields of historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Topics covered include diachrony and synchrony, genetic relations, the comparative method and language classification, sound change, morphological, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing, types of language contact, areal linguistics, and linguistic variation and social stratification. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110; LIN 210 recommended but not required |
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LIN 407 (ENG 201)
HIGLEY S
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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"To men I shall speak wisdom where none speak a word on earth; though sons of land-dwellers now eagerly seek after my tracks, I sometimes hide my path from everyone." Riddle 94 of the Exeter Book. In following the dark tracks of the Old English writers who left their almost unrecognizable English words on tenth-century vellum, we will have to acquire skills and tools. This course will ask you to learn the Old English language, but translations will also be provided for most of the texts as a guide only. With these in hand, we will explore the dark world of Anglo-Saxon writing for its illuminations, but our emphasis will be on loss, love, hardship, riddle, wisdom, and the spiritual and magical powers of writing in a culture that stood on the cusp of orality and literacy. Texts: King Alfred, The Chronicles, Aelfric's "Preface to Genesis," "The Wanderer," The Seafarer," "The Wife's Lament," "Wulf and Eadwacer," "Gnomes," "Enigmas," "The Battle of Maldon." BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 431 |
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LIN 410 (LIN 210)
MCDONOUGH J
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion ‘phoneme’, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. BUILDING: MOREY | ROOM: 525 PREREQUISITES: LIN110 |
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LIN 425 (LIN 225)
GRIMM S
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course introduces students to the basics of the analysis of meaning in natural language. The first section focuses on devices that motivate certain forms to take on the meanings they have. The second section of the course moves on to discuss how meanings combine to form meanings for larger units—how words and phrases combine to form sentences meanings. Using logical notation we illustrate the formal analysis of natural language meaning in terms of truth-conditions. We will discuss the basics of set theory, and investigate how meanings represented in these terms correlate with the syntactic and lexical structures of sentences of natural language. Students of graduate standing or those with strong formal backgrounds may consider starting with LIN 265/465 instead, for which this course is ordinarily a prerequisite. This course counts towards satisfying the core course requirement for majors. BUILDING: HUTCH | ROOM: 473 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110 |
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LIN 448 (CSC 248)
GILDEA D
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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An introduction to statistical natural language processing and automatic speech recognition techniques. This course presents the theory and practice behind the recently developed language processing technologies that enable applications such as speech-driven dictation systems, document search engines (e.g., finding web pages) and automatic machine translation. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments. BUILDING: CSB | ROOM: 601 PREREQUISITES: CSC172 & CSC 242 |
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LIN 468 (LIN 268)
GRIMM S
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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This course is a hands-on exploration of recent advances in computational models of meaning. The first part of the course will focus on implementing traditional rule-based compositional semantics in the functional programming language Haskell. We will construct a sophisticated model of formal semantics, culminating in examining the use of monads to model types of natural language meaning phenomena. The second part of the course explores distributional semantic models and their implementation, where lexical meaning is defined in terms of lexical co-occurrence, estimating meaning from large-scale corpus resources. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225 or permission of instructor |
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LIN 470 (LIN 270)
GRIMM N
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This is a hands-on class that introduces you to major techniques and tools in language documentation and description. You will learn how to collect and record a variety of language data through elicitation and text collection. The emphasis is then on organizing, managing, and processing these data sets for various purposes, such as building up a dictionary, annotating natural speech, and time-aligning media of different formats with computational tools such as Praat, Toolbox, and ELAN. Further, we will discuss crucial topics in language documentation such as fieldwork, ethics, and language revitalization. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110 or permission of instructor |
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LIN 491
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LIN 495
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LIN 581 (TH 581)
MARVIN E; MCDONOUGH J
M 2:35PM - 5:25PM
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6TH 581 (I-4) Music and Language: This course will explore relationships between musical and linguistic structure. In addition to reading and evaluating early writings on the subject by Bernstein and Lerdahl & Jackendoff, students will assess more recent work by Huron and Patel, and the linguists Hayes and Ladd on prosodic structure. We will also discuss experimental work on prosodic structure in language and on music acquisition in infants. Co-taught by a music theorist and linguist, the course will review basic aspects of phonology, intonational phonology, meter, and memory that are relevant to music. Each student will complete a piece of original research in the form of a term paper and class presentation. BUILDING: ESM | ROOM: 070 PREREQUISITES: Prerequisite: permission of instructor. |
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LIN 590
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LIN 591
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LIN 595
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LIN 595A
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LIN 895
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LIN 897
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LIN 899
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LIN 985
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LIN 995
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LIN 997
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LIN 997A
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LIN 999
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LIN 999A
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Fall 2017
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LIN 581 (TH 581)
MARVIN E; MCDONOUGH J
M 2:35PM - 5:25PM
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6TH 581 (I-4) Music and Language: This course will explore relationships between musical and linguistic structure. In addition to reading and evaluating early writings on the subject by Bernstein and Lerdahl & Jackendoff, students will assess more recent work by Huron and Patel, and the linguists Hayes and Ladd on prosodic structure. We will also discuss experimental work on prosodic structure in language and on music acquisition in infants. Co-taught by a music theorist and linguist, the course will review basic aspects of phonology, intonational phonology, meter, and memory that are relevant to music. Each student will complete a piece of original research in the form of a term paper and class presentation. BUILDING: ESM | ROOM: 070 PREREQUISITES: Prerequisite: permission of instructor. |
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LIN 405 (LIN 205)
ABTAHIAN M
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the principles of linguistic variation and change, and to examine their practical application in the interdisciplinary subfields of historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Topics covered include diachrony and synchrony, genetic relations, the comparative method and language classification, sound change, morphological, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing, types of language contact, areal linguistics, and linguistic variation and social stratification. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110; LIN 210 recommended but not required |
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LIN 410 (LIN 210)
MCDONOUGH J
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion ‘phoneme’, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. BUILDING: MOREY | ROOM: 525 PREREQUISITES: LIN110 |
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LIN 407 (ENG 201)
HIGLEY S
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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"To men I shall speak wisdom where none speak a word on earth; though sons of land-dwellers now eagerly seek after my tracks, I sometimes hide my path from everyone." Riddle 94 of the Exeter Book. In following the dark tracks of the Old English writers who left their almost unrecognizable English words on tenth-century vellum, we will have to acquire skills and tools. This course will ask you to learn the Old English language, but translations will also be provided for most of the texts as a guide only. With these in hand, we will explore the dark world of Anglo-Saxon writing for its illuminations, but our emphasis will be on loss, love, hardship, riddle, wisdom, and the spiritual and magical powers of writing in a culture that stood on the cusp of orality and literacy. Texts: King Alfred, The Chronicles, Aelfric's "Preface to Genesis," "The Wanderer," The Seafarer," "The Wife's Lament," "Wulf and Eadwacer," "Gnomes," "Enigmas," "The Battle of Maldon." BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 431 |
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LIN 425 (LIN 225)
GRIMM S
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course introduces students to the basics of the analysis of meaning in natural language. The first section focuses on devices that motivate certain forms to take on the meanings they have. The second section of the course moves on to discuss how meanings combine to form meanings for larger units—how words and phrases combine to form sentences meanings. Using logical notation we illustrate the formal analysis of natural language meaning in terms of truth-conditions. We will discuss the basics of set theory, and investigate how meanings represented in these terms correlate with the syntactic and lexical structures of sentences of natural language. Students of graduate standing or those with strong formal backgrounds may consider starting with LIN 265/465 instead, for which this course is ordinarily a prerequisite. This course counts towards satisfying the core course requirement for majors. BUILDING: HUTCH | ROOM: 473 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110 |
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LIN 468 (LIN 268)
GRIMM S
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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This course is a hands-on exploration of recent advances in computational models of meaning. The first part of the course will focus on implementing traditional rule-based compositional semantics in the functional programming language Haskell. We will construct a sophisticated model of formal semantics, culminating in examining the use of monads to model types of natural language meaning phenomena. The second part of the course explores distributional semantic models and their implementation, where lexical meaning is defined in terms of lexical co-occurrence, estimating meaning from large-scale corpus resources. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225 or permission of instructor |
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LIN 448 (CSC 248)
GILDEA D
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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An introduction to statistical natural language processing and automatic speech recognition techniques. This course presents the theory and practice behind the recently developed language processing technologies that enable applications such as speech-driven dictation systems, document search engines (e.g., finding web pages) and automatic machine translation. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments. BUILDING: CSB | ROOM: 601 PREREQUISITES: CSC172 & CSC 242 |
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LIN 470 (LIN 270)
GRIMM N
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This is a hands-on class that introduces you to major techniques and tools in language documentation and description. You will learn how to collect and record a variety of language data through elicitation and text collection. The emphasis is then on organizing, managing, and processing these data sets for various purposes, such as building up a dictionary, annotating natural speech, and time-aligning media of different formats with computational tools such as Praat, Toolbox, and ELAN. Further, we will discuss crucial topics in language documentation such as fieldwork, ethics, and language revitalization. BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110 or permission of instructor |
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LIN 491
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LIN 495
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LIN 590
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LIN 591
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LIN 595
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LIN 595A
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LIN 895
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LIN 897
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LIN 899
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LIN 985
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LIN 999
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