LING Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
2083	LING 101 - 001 Introduction to Language	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM	JULES TERRY	Davie Hall-Rm 0112	30/90	Seats filled	30/90	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.
2139	LING 101 - 002 Introduction to Language	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Esther Chen	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	Seats filled	Seats filled	30/30	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.
2140	LING 101 - 003 Introduction to Language	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Trey Anthony	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0302	25/30	Seats filled	25/30	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.
9451	LING 101 - 601 Introduction to Language	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Lanna Mcrae	Global Education, F-Rm 1005	11/35	Seats filled	11/35	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.
12125	LING 101 - 602 Introduction to Language	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Lanna Mcrae	Murray Hall-Rm G201	19/35	Seats filled	19/35	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.
10362	LING 145 - 001 Language, Communication, and Human and Animal Minds	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Kyle Cessna	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	3/5	Seats filled	3/5	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.
2926	LING 200 - 001 Phonology	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Caitlin Smith	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	12/35	Seats filled	12/35	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.
14595	LING 201 - 001 Syntax	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Brian Hsu	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	18/35	Seats filled	18/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. Introduction to the representational units and computational principles that underlie word order patterns in language. The course covers key discoveries and theories of generative approaches to syntax, in which grammars consist of formally defined rules and operations that generate grammatical sentences. Students may not receive credit for both LING 201 and LING 530. 3 units.
11892	LING 203 - 001 Language Acquisition and Development	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	MISHA BECKER	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	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.
14596	LING 230 - 001 Constructed Languages: Theory and Typology	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Brian Hsu	Murphey Hall-Rm 0105	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101. This course explores linguistic properties of constructed languages (conlangs). The course examines philosophical and creative motivations behind existing conlangs, and how their grammatical properties relate to those of natural languages. Students will explore and apply creative and analytical procedures used to create constructed language grammars. 3 units.
5358	LING 260 - 001 Languages of Southeast Asia	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Becky Butler	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	13/30	Seats filled	13/30	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.
14598	LING 333 - 001 Human Language and Animal Communication Systems	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Elliott Moreton	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	17/35	Seats filled	17/35	0/999
Description: Comparative study of human language alongside selected non-human communication systems. Anatomy, acoustics, combinatorial structure, innateness and acquisition, evolution. Sizable lab and field component. 3 units.
5059	LING 376 - 001 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	MARTHA RUIZ-GARCIA	Dey Hall-Rm 0302	0/3	Seats filled	0/3	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.
14601	LING 458 - 001 Writing Systems: Past, Present, Future, Fictional	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	David Mora Marín	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	15/35	Seats filled	15/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, LING 101; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. This course provides an introduction to the linguistic structure and historical development of the world's writing systems (e.g. Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Semitic scripts, Indian abugidas, Olmec, Mayan, Incan), the methods for their decipherment and analysis, the cross-script generalizations that can be proposed through their comparative study, and the techniques for developing a new writing system for a previously unwritten language, as well as for inventing a language and writing system from scratch. 3 units.
9468	LING 460 - 001 Making Sense of Big Data: Textual Analysis with R	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Jamillah Rodriguez, Yuhan Sui, Emma Wrenn	Manning Hall-Rm 0209	117/120	Seats filled	117/120	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.
14606	LING 490 - 001 Advanced Topics in Linguistics	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	David Mora Marín	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	8/35	Seats filled	8/35	0/999
Description: Directed readings on linguistic topics not covered in specific courses. 3 units.
3977	LING 523 - 001 Phonological Theory I	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Elliott Moreton	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0423	11/14	Seats filled	11/14	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.
5359	LING 547 - 001 Language Deficits and Cognition	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	JULES TERRY	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	12/35	Seats filled	12/35	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.
16717	LING 564 - 001 History of the French Language	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Laura Demsey	New East-Rm 0301	0/3	Seats filled	0/3
Description: Prerequisites, FREN 300, and one additional course above FREN 330; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. The phonology, morphology, and syntax of French are traced from the Latin foundation to the present. Lectures, readings, discussions, and textual analysis. In English. 3 units.
11895	LING 573 - 001 Linguistic Field Methods I	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Jamillah Rodriguez	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	11/20	Seats filled	11/20	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.
15140	LING 574 - 001 Linguistic Field Methods II	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Jamillah Rodriguez	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	3/5	Seats filled	3/5	0/999
Description: Continuation of LING 573. 3 units.
11896	LING 700 - 1 Linguistics Colloquium	Fr 3:30PM - 4:45PM	JULES TERRY	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0215	12/30	Seats filled	12/30	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.