Graduate Program

Term Schedule

Spring 2018

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
LIN 416 (BME 216) Speech on the Brain: Neural Representations of Speech Sounds CARNEY L; MCDONOUGH J MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
The focus of this course is on neural representations of speech sounds; introduction to basics of speech phonetics and responses from the auditory nerve through the brainstem, midbrain, and cortex; techniques for analyzing speech and neural responses. Students from BME, LIN, NSC and other programs will work in interdisciplinary teams on a final project. BUILDING: B&L \| ROOM: 270 PREREQUISITES: BME230 or LIN210/410 or NSC201 or BCS240 or BCS260 or BCS221' or permission of the instructor.
LIN 420 (LIN 220) INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMATICAL SYSTEMS ARMOSKAITE S MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we construct sentences. The course is designed to introduce the grammatical principles that guide the building of structures. The students will acquire and apply the tools necessary for linguistic analysis of phrases and sentences. Built on data puzzles from English and some lesser studied non-Indo European languages, the students will gain insights into state of the art syntactic theory and lingering questions. BUILDING: GAVET \| ROOM: 202 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 424 (LIN 224) INTRO TO COMPUTATIONAL LING WHITE A TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but little or no programming experience. Major focus is placed on deploying techniques used in computational linguistics to advance linguistic theory as well as developing students' ability to implement these techniques. Topics include basic object-oriented programming in Python, basic formal language theory, probability theory and information theory, finite state phonological and morphological analysis, generative and discriminative models for shallow syntactic and semantic parsing, and bottom-up, top-down, and mixed algorithms for syntactic and semantic parsing. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 427 (LIN 427) TOPICS PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY ABTAHIAN M MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
This course is intended to provide participants with an overview of research in an area of phonetics and phonology. Issues vary from term to term but may cover areas in segmental, metrical and intonational phonology and the phonology/phonetics interface. This term we will be focusing on the phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of sound change. We will begin with foundational papers on the topic of sound change from both a historical and synchronic perspective. Students will learn about linguistic variation and ongoing change locally in the Inland North dialect area through the analysis of their own interview data. Past and recent studies of the Inland North will provide a framework for learning about the linguistic and social motivations of sound change. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN 210
LIN 430 (ASL 200) SIGN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE TOURANGEAU N MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. BUILDING: LCHAS \| ROOM: 104 PREREQUISITES: ASL 106 or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
LIN 450 (LIN 250) DATA SCIENCE FOR LINGUISTICS GRIMM S TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing data in the wild, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary. BUILDING: HYLAN \| ROOM: 203 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, and either LIN210, LIN220 or LIN225
LIN 465 (LIN 265) Formal Semantics CARLSON G MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course is an in-depth introduction to the formal analysis of natural language meaning, employing techniques that have been developed in language and formal philosophy over the last century. Issues include intensionality, quantification, tense, presupposition, plurality, the analysis of discourse, and other current issues. Familiarity with syntax, logic, and/or computation are helpful. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
LIN 466 (LIN 266) INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS GRIMM S TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
Within theoretical linguistics, pragmatics is (broadly speaking) the study of how language users convey meaning. This course covers three general areas: (1) How meaning carried by linguistic elements (such as sentences) interacts with meaning that arises from inferences about speakers’ intentions; (2) Ways of characterizing meaning, especially with respect to linguistic elements not easily handled in traditional semantic (i.e., truth-conditional) terms; (3) The role of context in determining meaning. Topics to be discussed include the relation between semantics and pragmatics, representations of context, truth-conditional and other types of meaning, presupposition; implicature and Grice’s Cooperative Principle BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225
LIN 471 (LIN 271) FIELD METHODS IN LING DESC I GRIMM N R 12:30PM - 3:15PM
This class is similar to LIN389: Students will learn how to organize a fieldwork project by working with a native speaker. They will systematically prepare elicitation sessions, organize their data, and learn how to write up short sketches of their findings. The final project is a chapter of a joint sketch grammar of the language, including annotated natural text. In contrast to the senior seminar, however, this course is designed for two terms, continuing in the fall term. Also, participants are required to have taken LIN270/470 as a prerequisite. Having a background in language documentation and data processing techniques, students in this class will focus more on collecting and annotating natural texts (stories, dialogues, experimental data) which is adding a documentary angle. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 270 or with instructor's permission
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Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
Monday and Wednesday
LIN 416 (BME 216) Speech on the Brain: Neural Representations of Speech Sounds CARNEY L; MCDONOUGH J MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
The focus of this course is on neural representations of speech sounds; introduction to basics of speech phonetics and responses from the auditory nerve through the brainstem, midbrain, and cortex; techniques for analyzing speech and neural responses. Students from BME, LIN, NSC and other programs will work in interdisciplinary teams on a final project. BUILDING: B&L \| ROOM: 270 PREREQUISITES: BME230 or LIN210/410 or NSC201 or BCS240 or BCS260 or BCS221' or permission of the instructor.
LIN 420 (LIN 220) INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMATICAL SYSTEMS ARMOSKAITE S MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we construct sentences. The course is designed to introduce the grammatical principles that guide the building of structures. The students will acquire and apply the tools necessary for linguistic analysis of phrases and sentences. Built on data puzzles from English and some lesser studied non-Indo European languages, the students will gain insights into state of the art syntactic theory and lingering questions. BUILDING: GAVET \| ROOM: 202 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 430 (ASL 200) SIGN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE TOURANGEAU N MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. BUILDING: LCHAS \| ROOM: 104 PREREQUISITES: ASL 106 or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
LIN 465 (LIN 265) Formal Semantics CARLSON G MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course is an in-depth introduction to the formal analysis of natural language meaning, employing techniques that have been developed in language and formal philosophy over the last century. Issues include intensionality, quantification, tense, presupposition, plurality, the analysis of discourse, and other current issues. Familiarity with syntax, logic, and/or computation are helpful. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
LIN 427 (LIN 427) TOPICS PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY ABTAHIAN M MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
This course is intended to provide participants with an overview of research in an area of phonetics and phonology. Issues vary from term to term but may cover areas in segmental, metrical and intonational phonology and the phonology/phonetics interface. This term we will be focusing on the phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of sound change. We will begin with foundational papers on the topic of sound change from both a historical and synchronic perspective. Students will learn about linguistic variation and ongoing change locally in the Inland North dialect area through the analysis of their own interview data. Past and recent studies of the Inland North will provide a framework for learning about the linguistic and social motivations of sound change. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN 210
Tuesday
Tuesday and Thursday
LIN 424 (LIN 224) INTRO TO COMPUTATIONAL LING WHITE A TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but little or no programming experience. Major focus is placed on deploying techniques used in computational linguistics to advance linguistic theory as well as developing students' ability to implement these techniques. Topics include basic object-oriented programming in Python, basic formal language theory, probability theory and information theory, finite state phonological and morphological analysis, generative and discriminative models for shallow syntactic and semantic parsing, and bottom-up, top-down, and mixed algorithms for syntactic and semantic parsing. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 450 (LIN 250) DATA SCIENCE FOR LINGUISTICS GRIMM S TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing data in the wild, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary. BUILDING: HYLAN \| ROOM: 203 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, and either LIN210, LIN220 or LIN225
LIN 466 (LIN 266) INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS GRIMM S TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
Within theoretical linguistics, pragmatics is (broadly speaking) the study of how language users convey meaning. This course covers three general areas: (1) How meaning carried by linguistic elements (such as sentences) interacts with meaning that arises from inferences about speakers’ intentions; (2) Ways of characterizing meaning, especially with respect to linguistic elements not easily handled in traditional semantic (i.e., truth-conditional) terms; (3) The role of context in determining meaning. Topics to be discussed include the relation between semantics and pragmatics, representations of context, truth-conditional and other types of meaning, presupposition; implicature and Grice’s Cooperative Principle BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN110, LIN225
Wednesday
Thursday
LIN 471 (LIN 271) FIELD METHODS IN LING DESC I GRIMM N R 12:30PM - 3:15PM
This class is similar to LIN389: Students will learn how to organize a fieldwork project by working with a native speaker. They will systematically prepare elicitation sessions, organize their data, and learn how to write up short sketches of their findings. The final project is a chapter of a joint sketch grammar of the language, including annotated natural text. In contrast to the senior seminar, however, this course is designed for two terms, continuing in the fall term. Also, participants are required to have taken LIN270/470 as a prerequisite. Having a background in language documentation and data processing techniques, students in this class will focus more on collecting and annotating natural texts (stories, dialogues, experimental data) which is adding a documentary angle. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 270 or with instructor's permission
Friday
TBA
LIN 491 MASTER'S READINGS IN LIN – –
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LIN 495 MASTER'S RESEARCH IN LIN – –
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LIN 590 SUPERVISED TEACHING – –
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LIN 591 PHD READINGS IN LIN – –
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LIN 595 PHD RESEARCH IN LIN – –
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LIN 595A PHD RESEARCH IN ABSENTIA – –
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LIN 895 CONT OF MASTER'S ENROLLMENT – –
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LIN 897 MASTER'S DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 899 MASTER'S DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 985 LEAVE OF ABSENCE – –
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LIN 986V FULL TIME VISITING STUDENT – –
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LIN 995 CONT OF DOCTORAL ENROLLMENT – –
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LIN 997 WRITING DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 997A DOCT DISSERTATN IN ABSENTIA – –
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LIN 999 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION – –
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