Linguistics Courses

• Open to first-year students.
• May not be used for major credit.
• Not a prerequisite for any further linguistics course.
• Wide-ranging examination of human language as a social, cultural, cognitive, historical, and formal phenomenon.       
  

• Open to first-year students. Required for majors.
• Prerequisite for all 300- and 400-level courses
• Structural properties of human language as illuminated by modern linguistic theory. Sentence-structure, sound-patterns, word-form, aspects of meaning. Principles of Universal Grammar.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Structure of phrases and sentences in natural language. Universal Grammar and interlinguistic variation. X-bar theory. Case, NP- and Wh-movement, anaphora, binding, government. Lexical representation. Logical form.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Sound structure of language. Phonetic underpinnings, phonological representation, rule-systems, constraint interaction. Syllable structure; feature geometry; vowel harmony; stress, accent, and tone.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Meaning in natural language. Construction of the meaning of the whole from the meaning of the parts. Syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. Model-theoretic semantics.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Change of language structure through time. Methods of reconstructing dead languages. Syntactic and phonological rule systems as locus of change. Language families; the deep reconstruction controversy.
• This course is rarely offered; please contact the Undergraduate Program Director for availability.
  

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Comparison of principal syntactic and phonological structures of French, Spanish, Italian, and other Romance languages. Stress patterns, vowel and consonant shifts. Pro-drop, inflection, inversion. Contrast with English.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201.
• Linguistic structure above the sentence level, relating language to, context of use. Speech acts, conversational maxims, presupposition and implicature, deixis.

• Prerequisite: 01:615.201.
• Major twentieth-century approaches to scientific investigation of language. Impact of linguistic theory on psychology, philosophy, literary theory, and anthropology.

• Prerequisite: 01:615.201. Credit not given for both this course and 0:830:351
• Production, perception, and acquisition of language at the level of sound (phonology), words (morphology and the lexicon, and grammar (syntax).

• Prerequisite: 01:615.201. Recommended: 01:615:441 or 371. Credit not given for both this course and 01:830:353
• Empirical and theoretical studies of the acquisition of syntax, morphology, and phonology; word learning, the neural bases of language acquisition, language disorders, and learnability theory.

• Prerequisite: 01:615.305 or 315 or 325.
• Structure of words in natural language. Word-formation and syntax. Effects of word-structure on sound-patteming. Inflection, derivation, compounding, headedness, scope of affixes.

• Prerequisites: 01:615:201 and 305.
• Similarities and differences between grammatical systems, with focus on syntax. Role of principled variation in Universal Grammar. Overt and non-Overt movement, pro-drop, case marking, anaphora. Markedness.

• Prerequisites: 01:615:201;and 01:615.305 or 315 or 325.
• Study of the linguistic structure of an unfamiliar language, based on in-class work with a native-speaker consultant.

• Prerequisites: 01:615:201; and 01:615:305 or 315 or 325.
• Linguistic theory and the human mind/brain. Acquisition and processing of natural language. Parsing. Formal learning. Language deficits. Symbolic and connectionist approaches to language.

• Prerequisite: 01:615:201; and 01:615:305 or 315 or 325
• Articulatory mechanisms of speech. Physical characteristics of speech sounds. Description and transcription of the sounds of the world's languages.

01:615:461. Linguistics of Signed Languages (3)

• Prerequisite: 01:615.201
• The structure of natural signed languages spoken around the world. The essentials of signed language phonology, syntax, and semantics. 

01:615:471. Selected Topics in Linguistics

• Prerequisites: 01:615:201, and at least one of 01:615:305, 315, 325, as relevant.
• Given on an occasional basis, this course will treat a special topic of current interest, chosen by the instructor.

01:615:493, 494. Independent study (3,3)

• Prerequisites: Permission of Major Advisor and Instructor.
• Independent research carried out under supervision of Linguistics faculty member.

• Prerequisites: Senior status; permission of Major Advisor and Instructor.
• Supervised research and writing of an honors thesis.

Approved Courses from Outside Linguistics

• 01:185:411    (4)    Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science I (NB)
• 01:185:412    (3)    Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science II (NB)

• 01:198:452    (3)    Formal Languages and Automata (NB)

• 01:420:332    (3)    French Phonetics and Applied Linguistics (NB)
• 01:420:333    (3)    Introduction to French Syntax (NB)
• 01:420:407    (3)    Advanced French Syntax (NB)
• 01:420:490    (3)    Advanced Topics in French and Francophone Linguistics (NB)

• 01:730:315    (3)    Applied Symbolic Logic (NB)
• 01:730:420    (3)    Philosophy of Language (NB)
• 01:730:421    (3)    Semantics for Natural Languages (NB)

• 01:830:351    (3)    Psychology of Language (NB)
• 01:830:353    (3)    Language Acquisition (NB)
  

• 01:940:362    (3)    Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (NB)
• 01:940:363    (3)    Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking World (NB)
• 01:940:364    (3)    Contrastive Analysis (Spanish / English) (NB)
• 01:940:365    (3)    Research Methods in Spanish Linguistics (NB)
• 01:940:416    (3)    Field Methods in Spanish Linguistics (NB)
• 01:940:417    (3)    History of the Spanish Language (NB)
• 01:940:419    (3)    Dialectology of the Spanish-speaking World (NB)
• 01:940:420    (3)    Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition (NB)
• 01:940:421    (3)    Spanish Syntax (NB)
• 01:940:422    (3)    Spanish Semantics (NB)
• 01:940:488    (3)    Topics in Spanish Linguistics (NB)