LING 300 Topics in Linguistics (1) Topics in the relationship between language and human behavior. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

LING 310 Psycholinguistics (1) Introduction to experimental and developmental psycholinguistics. Mental processes underlying the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. Structure of the human lexicon and parser. Innateness versus learning in acquisition.

LING 311 Child Language (1) Introduction to first language acquisition. Innate and environmental factors in how infants and children
learn the grammar of their native language. Experimental and corpus-based methods of inquiry.

LING 312 Second Language Acquisition (1) Major theories of second language acquisition and current issues in the field. Cognitive, personality, and sociocultural variables affecting second language learning.

LING 320 Sociolinguistics (1) Linguistic variation, social differences, class dialects, styles, and diglossia. Linguistic diversity; multidialectal and multilingual societies. Correlations between linguistic structures and nonlinguistic aspects of cultures. Sociolinguistic data as a diagnostic index of social structure, language planning, educational policies, and modernization. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 321 Bilingualism (1) Sociological, psychological, and linguistic factors affecting the simultaneous or sequential acquisition of two or more languages. Effects of bilingualism on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and cognition.

LING 322 Language Variation (1) Differences in language that correlate with historical periods, geographic regions, and societal groupings (e.g., age, race, ethnicity, gender, social class).

LING 323 Language and Gender (1) How language is used by and about women and men, cross-cultural gender differences in language and language attitudes.

LING 324 Linguistics and English Composition (1) Recent trends in the study of the uses and forms of writing and the processes of written composition. Learning and teaching of written language.

LING 325 Language and Medicine (1) Analysis of language patterns used in medical settings; includes doctor-patient interaction and technical language usage.

LING 326 Language and Law (1) Contemporary social science research on the interaction of language variables and our legal system; application of linguistics to the resolution of legal cases.

LING 327 Language and Sexuality (1) Explores the ways language is used to construct, negotiate, present, and/or conceal sexual identity and orientation. The language of sexual minority groups, focusing on the language of and about gay men and lesbians. Topics include “reclaimed epithets” (e.g. dyke and queer), gender vs. sexuality vs. sex, coming-out stories as gay genre, the sexual lexicon, cross-cultural sexual diversity. Prerequisites: a course in linguistics or permission of instructor.

LING 330 Research Methods in Linguistics (1) Methods of linguistic data collection, management, and analysis with an emphasis on the use of computational, experimental, and statistical methods

LING 331 Formal Foundations of Linguistic Theory (1) An overview of the formal foundations of linguistic theory. Topics include set theory, trees and lattices, feature structures and unification, formal languages, complexity and probabilistic grammars. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 332 Linguistic Field Methods (1) Collection of primary linguistic data from an unfamiliar language. Lexicon and grammar development focusing on phonology, morphology and syntax. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 333 Methods in Developmental Linguistics (1) Methods of investigating children's knowledge of grammatical structure. Experimental design; review and application of statistics; executing developmental linguistic research; reporting of results. Prerequisite: LING 311 or permission of instructor.

LING 334 Introduction to Computational Linguistics (1) Introduction to computational methods in linguistics and natural language processing. Use of corpora as sources of linguistic data; morphological analysis, parsing, language modeling; applications in language technology.

LING 340 Historical Linguistics (1) Principles of the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction. Historical syntax. Quantitative methods in historical linguistics.

LING 341 Language Typology (1) Comparative overview of the classification and analysis of major grammatical structures found across languages of the world. Topics discussed vary but may include case marking and grammatical relations, parts of speech, word order, causative constructions, relative clauses, or phonological phenomena.

LING 342 Structure of Various Languages (1) Phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of a particular language. May be repeated for credit with change in language.

LING 350 Fundamentals of Laboratory Phonology (1) Articulatory phonetics. Syllable structure and phonotactics. Fundamentals of experimental design and data analysis. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 360 Fundamentals of Syntax (1) Introduction to principles of syntactic theory through the analysis of various syntactic phenomena, based mainly on data from English. Emphasis on linguistic argumentation. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 361 Morphology (1) Issues in theoretical morphology. The internal structure of words. Linguistic and psycholinguistic findings about the representation and processing of word structures. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 370 Fundamentals of Meaning (1) An in-depth overview of central issues in lexical semantics and pragmatics and a foundation in the analytical skills necessary for advanced research on meaning. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 371 Reference (1) Philosophical and linguistic approaches to the study of reference.

LING 372 Pragmatics (1) Introduction to non-truth-conditional meaning, focusing on the role of context in utterance production and interpretation.  Topics include the semantics-pragmatics boundary, implicature, presupposition, and speech acts. Prerequisites: LING 250, 260, or 270 (or equivalent), graduate standing, or permission of instructor.

LING 380 Spoken English for Nonnative Speakers (1) Spoken English language instruction for international graduate students. May be repeated for credit with different content. Pass/no-credit registration recommended. Graduate credit not approved in some departments.

LING 381 Written English for Nonnative Speakers Written argumentation skills; assignments for other classes, research papers, or thesis chapters are incorporated into the class plan. Pass/no credit registration recommended. Graduate credit not approved in some departments.

LING 400 Seminar in Linguistics (1) Theoretical issues of current concern to linguistics. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

LING 434 Computational Linguistics (1) Computational approaches to natural language. Topics vary and may include parsing and syntactic analysis, discourse models, speech understanding, and machine translation. Prerequisite: LING 334 or permission of instructor.

LING 450-1 Laboratory Phonology I (1) Constraint-based models of phonology. Hierarchical representations of phonological structure. Productivity and constraint conflict. Prerequisites: LING 350 or permission of instructor.

LING 450-2 Laboratory Phonology II (1) Fundamental principles of acoustic phonetics. Speech perception. Models of lexical access. Variability and contrast. Prerequisites: LING 450-1 or permission of instructor.

LING 451 Proseminar in Sound Structure (1) Detailed study of a particular empirical issue (e.g., intonation, syllable structure) or theory (e.g., Optimality Theory, Articulatory Phonology) in phonology/phonetics. Prerequisite: LING 450-2 or permission of instructor.

LING 452 Seminar in Sound Structure (1) Advanced topics in phonological theory. Prerequisite: LING 450-2 or permission of instructor.

LING 460-1 Syntactic Analysis I (1) Formal syntactic analysis within generative grammar, focusing on universal and language-specific
properties, argumentation. Topics include phrase structure, sentential complementation, anaphora, island constraints, and the lexicon. Prerequisite: LING 360 or permission of instructor.

LING 460-2 Syntactic Analysis II (1) Continuation of LING 460-1. Prerequisite: LING 460-1 or permission of instructor.

LING 461 Proseminar in Syntax (1) Detailed study of a particular empirical issue (e.g., clause structure, ellipsis, pronoun/antecedent relations) or theory (e.g., the Minimalist Program, Lexical-Functional Grammar) in syntax. Prerequisite: LING 460-2 or permission of instructor.

LING 462/362 Advanced Topics Seminar in Syntax (1) Advanced topics in syntactic theory. Prerequisite: For 462: LING 460-2 or permission of instructor; for 362: LING 260.

LING 470-1 Semantic Analysis I (1) Formal analysis of linguistic meaning,with a focus on compositional and contextual aspects of interpretation. Topics include the syntax-semantics interface, quantification, intensionality, anaphora, and dynamic semantics. Prerequisite: LING 370 or permission of instructor.

LING 470-2 Semantic Analysis II (1) Continuation of LING 470-1. Prerequisite: LING 470-1 or permission of instructor.

LING 471 Proseminar in Semantics (1) Detailed study of a particular empirical issue (e.g., presupposition, quantification, aspect, conditionals) or theory (e.g., dynamic semantics, discourse representation theory) in semantics/pragmatics. Prerequisite: LING 470-2 or permission of instructor.

LING 472 Seminar in Semantics (1) Focused study of current issues in formal semantics and their implications for linguistic theory. Prerequisite: LING 470-2 or permission of instructor.

LING 473 Seminar in Pragmatics (1) Advanced topics in pragmatic theory. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

LING 480 American Academic Culture for Nonnative Speakers of English (1) Basic teaching skills in the context of an introduction to the American academic environment; practice improving fluency in spoken English. Pass/no credit registration recommended. Graduate credit not approved in some departments.

LING 499 Independent Study (1, 2, or 3) May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.

LING 500 Research Seminar in Linguistics (1) Forum for presenting and discussing student research; for second-year graduate students in linguistics working on the research paper requirement. Pass/no-credit registration required.

LING 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.

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SPCH 401 Issues in Language and Cognition (1)

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CSD 301 Anatomy and Physiology of the Vocal Mechanism (1)
CSD 306 Psychoacoustics (1)
CSD 309 Culture,Language,and Learning (1)
CSD 392 Language Development and Usage (1)
CSD 492 Language Disorders in Preschool Children (1)
CSD 495-1 Aphasia:Disorders of Language Representation and Processing (1)
CSD 499 Independent Study (1,2 or 3)
CSD 507 Neural Mechanisms of Language Processing (1)

Related Course in the Department of English
ENGLISH 302 History of the English Language (1)

Related Course in the School of Music
MUS THRY 351 Music Cognition (1)

Related Courses in the Department of Philosophy
PHIL 328 Classics of Analytic Philosophy (1)
PHIL 350 Systematic Logic (1)
PHIL 351 Advanced Topics in Philosophical Logic (1)
PHIL 353 Philosophy of Language (1)

Related Courses in the Department of Psychology
PSYCH 334 Language and Thought (1)
PSYCH 362 Cognitive Development (1)
PSYCH 446 Human Memory and Cognition (1)
PSYCH 460 Special Topics in Cognition (1)
PSYCH 461 Reasoning and Representation (1)
PSYCH 466 Analogy and Similarity (1)

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SLAVIC 340 History of the Russian Language (1)
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