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NOTE: Faculty leaves or other departmental obligations affect patterns of course offerings, so you should always check with your advisor about when certain courses are likely to be offered.
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| LING 501 - Current Trends in Linguistics (3 hrs) |
| Description: A study of current trends in linguistic research as they bear on any number of practical and educational problems: reading, writing, language and public policy, language and professions, etc. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 502 - History of Linguistics (3 hrs) |
| Description: Grammatical analysis from Plato to Chomsky; the influence of various linguistic theories and analytical methods on the development of contemporary language models and the teaching of grammar. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 506 - Introduction to Old English (3 hrs) |
| Description: An introduction to Old English language, and the reading of representative selections of prose and poetry in the original Old English. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 510 - Historical and Comparative Linguistics (3 hrs) |
| Description: Introduction to comparative historical linguistics, with special reference to the development of English from Germanic and Indo-European backgrounds. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 519 - Technology for Language Documentation (3 hrs) |
| Description: Trains students in the technical aspects of collecting, archiving and processing language materials following best-practice guidelines. Topics to be covered include the collection of audiovisual language materials; materials processing for archiving, analysis and display; and materials annotation using existing tools. This class also serves as an introduction to basic scripting with Perl or Python. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401, or department permission. |
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| LING 525 - Advanced Syntax (3 hrs) |
| Description: Development of tools for advanced syntactic analysis in English and other languages. Traditional and current approaches to the study of syntax including government and binding theory, and phrase structure grammar. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 531 - Semantics: The Study of Meaning (3 hrs) |
| Description: A brief study of the historical background of modern semantic analysis of English utterances. Traditional and generative approaches to semantic concepts will be examined. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 532 - Sociolinguistics (3 hrs) |
| Description: An analysis of the diversity in language caused by social factors, and the correlative influence of these linguistic differences upon society and social status. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 533 - General Psycholinguistics (3 hrs) |
| Description: An introduction to psycholinguistics, the mental representation of a grammar, perception of language units, aphasia and other language abnormalities, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, language and thought. Not open to students in speech-language pathology program. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 534 - Phonological Analysis (3 hrs) |
| Description: Advanced theories in current phonology are presented and argued for, and contrasted with previous theories. Students do weekly analyses and submit an original final paper suitable for presentation at a conference. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 535 - Discourse Analysis (3 hrs) |
| Description: Study of discourse structure and conversational interaction from several analytical perspectives, e.g., interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics and ethnolinguistics. Identification of the structural cues and interpretive conventions that make discourse meaningful within a speech community. Topics may include: cross-cultural communication, gender and discourse, personal narrative, speech acts and presupposition. |
| Prerequisite(s): One course in LING at the 500 level |
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| LING 536 - Typology and Universals of Language (3 hrs) |
| Description: Seminar on description and explanation of structural patterns found recurrently across languages. Explores characteristics of the world's language families and areas. Special attention to the processes of linguistic change. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 401 or equivalent |
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| LING 538 - Multilingual Text Processing (3 hrs) |
| Description: An empirical and computational analysis of the requirements of computing in a global and multilingual environment. Covers the world's writing systems, from scripts such as Tibetan and Arabic to systems devised by and for linguists, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet; technologies, algorithms and programming interfaces commonly used for multilingual text processing, including the Unicode Standard; and multilingual aspects of voice-and video-based applications. |
| Prerequisite(s): LING 519 or department permission. |
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| LING 590/591/592 - Special Topics (1/2/3 hrs) |
| Description: An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other department offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course more than once, provided different topics are covered. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program. |
| Prerequisite(s): Department permission. |
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| LING 597/598/599 - Independent Study (1/2/3 hrs) |
| Description: An intensive study of a problem or research area not covered in regular courses; under the direction of a University faculty member. |
| Prerequisite(s): Department permission. |
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| LING 679/680/681 - Special Topics (1/2/3 hrs) |
| Description: An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other department offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course more than once, provided different topics are covered. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program. |
| Prerequisite(s): Department permission. |
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| LING 692 - Thesis (3 hrs) |
| Description: Original research or critical study designed and completed by the student under the guidance of the thesis director and committee. |
| Prerequisite(s): Department permission. |
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| LING 697/698/699 - Independent Study (1/2/3 hrs) |
| Description: An intensive study of a problem or research area not covered in regular courses; under the direction of a University faculty member. |
| Prerequisite(s): Department permission. |
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