| 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.) |