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| Class Number | Class | Meeting Time | Instructor | Room | Unreserved Enrollment | Reserved Enrollment | Wait List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14004 | LING 60 - 001 First-Year Seminar: How Reading Works: Language, Cognition, and Literacy | TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM | Jennifer Smith | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | Seats filled (24 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: How do we go from looking at symbols on a page or screen to understanding the writer's message? How do children learn to read, and what ways of teaching reading best promote success for all students? We will explore these questions through analysis of language and writing structure and discussion of research data. Your final project will address a real-world question about reading, literacy, or reading education from the perspective of language and cognition. 3 units. | |||||||
| 2250 | LING 101 - 001 Introduction to Language | MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Jamillah Rodriguez | Peabody Hall-Rm 1040 | 54/120 (120 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units. | |||||||
| 2308 | LING 101 - 002 Introduction to Language | MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Erin Humphreys | Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318 | 28/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units. | |||||||
| 2309 | LING 101 - 003 Introduction to Language | TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM | J Leo Hirsch | Murphey Hall-Rm 0204 | 29/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 3 units. | |||||||
| 10320 | LING 101 - 602 Introduction to Language | Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Yuhan Sui | Peabody Hall-Rm 2060 | 20/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14341 | LING 101 - 604 Introduction to Language | Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Yuhan Sui | Peabody Hall-Rm 2060 | 10/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Introduction to the formal analysis of human language, including sounds, words, sentences, and language meaning, plus child language acquisition, language change over time, social attitudes toward language, and similarities and differences among languages. Other topics may include writing systems, animal communication, and language analysis by computers. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14005 | LING 138 - 001 Linguistic Anthropology | TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM | David Mora Marín | Phillips Hall-Rm 0328 | 11/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: An introduction to linguistic anthropology and anthropological linguistics. The course approaches the complex interconnections between language, culture, and cognition; theoretical approaches employed during the past century (structuralism, functionalism, ethnoscience, universalism, linguistic relativity); common case studies (spatial language, colors, classifiers, deixis); verbal art (orality, literacy), linguistic ideology; and ethnolinguistic vitality. 3 units. | |||||||
| 11550 | LING 145 - 001 Language, Communication, and Human and Animal Minds | MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM | Caleb Fawell | Caldwell Hall-Rm 0105 | Seats filled (5 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: An examination of the differences between natural human languages and other communication systems. Includes a philosophical inquiry into how languages relate to the world and the mind. 3 units. | |||||||
| 3150 | LING 200 - 001 Phonology | MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM | Elliott Moreton | Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218 | 17/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Description and analysis of sound systems of languages around the world. Introduction to formal phonological models, argumentation, and hypothesis testing. Students may not receive credit for both LING 200 and LING 523. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14007 | LING 203 - 1 Language Acquisition and Development | TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM | MISHA BECKER | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | Seats filled (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Provides an introduction to first-language acquisition, focusing on the acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as on the social context of language acquisition and issues of atypical language development. Students may not receive credit for both LING 203 and LING 528. 3 units. | |||||||
| 5738 | LING 260 - 001 Languages of Southeast Asia | MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Becky Butler | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 13/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: This course surveys languages spoken in Southeast Asia, an area rich in linguistic diversity, which is home to more than five distinct language families and well over 1,000 individual languages. Students will investigate the languages--in situ and in the diaspora--through the lens of descriptive linguistics, and will explore the social, cultural, and political aspects of languages in the region. This course is appropriate for students with an interest in linguistics or in Southeast Asia. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14008 | LING 290 - 1 Special Topics in Linguistics | MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | JULES TERRY | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 25/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. In-depth treatment of a selected issue or topic in linguistics. Topic will vary with the instructor. Course may be taken more than once when the topic varies. 3 units. | |||||||
| 5394 | LING 360 - 001 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics | TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM | BRUNO ESTIGARRIBIA | Dey Hall-Rm 0301 | 0/3 (3 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, SPAN 300 or SPAN 301; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Introduction to the linguistic study of sound, meaning, grammatical form, dialectal and sociolinguistic variation, with a particular focus on modern Spanish and the languages of Spain and Latin America. Previously offered as SPAN/LING 377. 3 units. | |||||||
| 5395 | LING 376 - 001 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology | MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM | MARTHA RUIZ-GARCIA | Dey Hall-Rm 0208 | 0/3 (3 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, SPAN 300 or SPAN 301; permission from the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Introduction to the description of sound systems with a focus on Spanish. Includes the study of the historical development of Spanish and its areal and social variation in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. 3 units. | |||||||
| 5806 | LING 395 - 012 Group Mentored Research | Mo 10:00AM - 11:30AM | MISHA BECKER | Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526A | Seats filled (5 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Permission of instructor. Students gain first-hand experience conducting research as part of a research group working together on a single project under the advisement of a faculty member. Topics will vary. 1 - 3 units. | |||||||
| 10346 | LING 460 - 001 Making Sense of Big Data: Textual Analysis with R | MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM | Elliott Moreton, Esther Chen | Global Education, F-Rm 1005 | Seats filled (60 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: The course covers methods for working with textual data (corpora, databases, etc.) that include data cleaning techniques, graphing, statistical analysis, web-scraping, and categorization models. Students will complete their own data project by the end of the course. 3 units. | |||||||
| 4243 | LING 523 - 001 Phonological Theory I | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | Jennifer Smith | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 7/14 (14 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 520, or SPHS 530 or 540. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Introduction to the principles of modern generative phonology. Methods and theory of phonological analysis. Students may not receive credit for both LING 200 and LING 523. 3 units. | |||||||
| 11334 | LING 542 - 001 Pidgins and Creoles | TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM | PAUL ROBERGE | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 8/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 101 or 400. Examination of the social contexts of language contact and their linguistic outcomes, with particular emphasis on the formation of pidgins and creoles. The course investigates the structural properties of these new contact languages and evaluates the conflicting theories that explain their genesis. 3 units. | |||||||
| 5740 | LING 547 - 001 Language Deficits and Cognition | MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM | JULES TERRY | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 12/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, LING 101 or 400. Survey of the linguistic properties associated with aphasia, autism, Williams syndrome, dyslexia, and schizophrenia. Emphasis on the implications of these conditions for theories of mind. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14009 | LING 558 - 1 Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs | TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM | David Mora Marín | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 10/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: This course is an introduction to the ancient scripts of pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America. It focuses on ancient Mayan hieroglyphs, describing their orthographic and linguistic structure, and highlighting methods for investigating the script using the Maya Hieroglyphic Database (5,000 inscriptions comprising 85,565 records). Students will write a research paper consisting of a linguistic and quantitative (descriptive, inferential statistical) analysis of a particular phenomenon of the script. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14856 | LING 565 - 001 French Phonetics and Phonology | MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM | Laura Demsey | Dey Hall-Rm 0203 | 3/5 (5 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, FREN 255, 260, or 262; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Study of the sound system and prosody features of standard French, emphasizing practical application in a variety of oral activities. Requires learning linguistic terminology and the phonetic alphabet. In English. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14010 | LING 573 - 001 Linguistic Field Methods I | MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM | Jamillah Rodriguez | Dey Hall-Rm 0304 | 10/25 (25 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisites, LING 101, and one of LING 200, 376, or 422. Analysis and description of a language unknown to the class from data solicited from a native-speaker consultant. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14871 | LING 676 - 001 Advanced Spanish Phonology | MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Lamar Graham | Dey Hall-Rm 0205 | 3/5 (5 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: Prerequisite, SPAN 376; OR graduate standing; OR permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Topics in Spanish phonology from a range of theoretical perspectives. Autosegmental theory, optimality theory (OT), syllable structure, stress and accent, and the interaction of phonology and morphology. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14011 | LING 700 - 1 Linguistics Colloquium | Fr 3:30PM - 4:45PM | JULES TERRY | Smith Bldg-Rm 0107 | 17/30 (30 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: This course corresponds to our weekly department colloquium, which gives students an opportunity to learn about current research in the field from local and external invited speakers, present their own work in progress or completed thesis research, and to engage in a variety of professional development activities led by faculty. 1 units. | |||||||
| 13459 | LING 712 - 001 Advanced Studies in Philosophy of Language | Th 1:00PM - 3:30PM | Alex Worsnip | Caldwell Hall-Rm 0213 | 0/5 (5 total) | Seats filled | 0/999 |
| Description: 3 units. | |||||||