Graduate Courses

Ling 601 Linguistic Foundations Sounds of Language. (3 cr.) (prereq: Ling 330 or equivalent) Principles of phonetics and phonology with emphases on analytical procedures and applications to real world language problems.
Ling 602 Linguistic Foundations Structures of Language. (3 cr.) (prereq: Ling 330 or equivalent) Principles of morphology and syntax with emphases on analytical procedures and applications to real world language problems.
Ling 603 Linguistic Foundations Meanings of Language. (3 cr.) (prereq: Ling 330 or equivalent) Principles of semantics and pragmatics with emphases on analytical procedures and applications to real world language problems.
Ling 604 Research Design in Linguistics. (3 cr.) Overview of, and experience in, research approaches and methodologies in linguistics and applied linguistics with a concentration on Linguistics Department faculty research interests.
Ling 545 Psycholinguistics. (3 cr.) How the mind interprets, stores, retrieves, and produces language. Anatomical structures and physiological processes of the brain dealing with language.
Ling 550 Sociolinguistics. (3 cr.) Research and theory in anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Ling 551 Anthropological Linguistics. (3 cr.) Language in culture and society: development, typology, and description.
Ling 558 Historical-Comparative Linguistics. (3 cr.) (prereq: Ling 450 or equivalent) Theory and method of language change via comparing daughter languages and reconstructing ancestral languages. Language universals and typology.
Ling 580R Problems in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. (1-3 cr.) Advanced research in language acquisition, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistics field study, applied linguistics.
Ling 581 Natural Language Processing. (3 cr.) (Prerequisite: instructor's consent.) Upper-division linguistics/CHum students with less programming experience may enroll with instructor's consent. Intensive overview of natural language processing including computational techniques, hands-on experience with linguistics technologies and corpora, language modeling approaches, and readings from current research.
Ling 590R Readings in Linguistics. (1-3 cr.) (Prerequisite: instructor's consent.) Individual study of current linguistic literature. Occasional discussion sessions with instructor and other class members. Pass/fail grade only.
Ling 615 Analogical Modeling of Language. (3 cr.) Non-declarative approaches to language description; work within the connectionist or neural net framework; analogical or exemplar modeling.
Ling 640 Language Acquisition. (3 cr.) First- and second-language acquisition viewed in light of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
Ling 651 Advanced Phonology. (3 cr.) Study of sound systems of natural languages using current methods and theories
Ling 652 Advanced Morphology. (3 cr.) Morphological theory and applications including the lexicon, inflectional and derivational processes, compounding, valency, lexical conceptual and argument structure, morphophonology and morphosyntax, learnability, and modeling.
Ling 653 Advanced Syntax. (3 cr.) Theory of generative grammar, emphasizing its history, the competition between different versions of generative theory, and their recent extensions.
Ling 654 Advanced Semantics. (3 cr.) Theory and practice of semantic analysis with special emphasis on Jackobsonian and Peircian semiotics.
Ling 698R Master's Project. (1-3 cr.) Design, production, and evaluation of MA project in linguistics or TESOL. May involve various media: paper/print, computer software, audio recordings, or video recordings. Supervised by graduate advisory committee chair.
Ling 699R Master's Thesis. (1-9 cr.)