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AP/LING 1000 6.00
Introduction to Linguistics
CROSSLISTED COURSE: GL EN 2605 & GL LIN 2065 This course examines fundamental principles of language structure and interpretation. The focus is on the core areas, specifically, phonology (structure of sounds), morphology (structure of words), ...
AP/LING 2110 3.00
Phonetics
CROSSLISTED COURSE: GL EN 3603 & GL LIN 3603 This course provides a brief discussion of the anatomical and physiological bases of the production of speech sounds and an introduction to a wide range of ...
AP/LING 2120 3.00
Phonology 1: Analysis
CROSSLISTED COURSES: GL EN 3601 & GL LIN 3601 This course provides students with the opportunity to develop the analytical skills necessary for more advanced phonological work. Emphasis throughout is on practical analysis and argumentation, ...
AP/LING 2130 3.00
Morphology 1: Analysis
This course provides an introduction to the nature and organization of morphological patterns in human languages. Students are exposed to a range of cross-linguistic data, with emphasis being placed on how morphological theory accounts for ...
AP/LING 2140 3.00
Syntax 1: Analysis
This course offers an introduction to syntactic analysis, building on concepts acquired in Linguistics 1000 and Linguistics 2130, and paves the way for Linguistics 3140. Topics include lexical and functional categories, morphosyntac features, theta-roles and ...
AP/LING 2200 3.00
Introduction to Speech and Language Sciences
This course introduces students to key aspects of speech sciences, including acoustic phonetics, speech perception, speech production and audition, as well as fundamental concepts in speech-language development and disorders. The relationship between speech and abstract ...
AP/LING 2400 3.00
Language in its Social Context
This course provides an introduction to language as a social phenomenon. Topics include: approaches to the study of language in its social context; linguistic diversity and societal multilingualism; language planning and policy (with special focus ...
AP/LING 2410 3.00
Language and Gender
This course explores the relationship between language and sex/gender systems from a feminist perspective. The main areas investigated are language and gender stereotypes; language, power and women's status; and male versus female communicative style in ...
AP/LING 2420 3.00
Language and Culture
This course investigates the relationship between language and culture by exploring analyses of language use in social interaction in both Western and non-Western societies. It investigates the role of language in marking social difference and ...
AP/LING 2430 3.00
Language Power and Persuasion
This course investigates the role of language in creating and maintaining power asymmetries in society, focusing in particular on the covert ways in which language may help to "persuade" individuals to accept existing power structures ...
AP/LING 2450 3.00
Language and the Law
This course explores ways in which linguistics can shed light on language use in the legal system. The course is divided into four sections:1. the origins and special characteristics of written legal language, including a ...
AP/LING 2800 3.00
Language and Mind
This course explores how the structures of human language reflect the architecture of the human mind. Linguistics issues are related to topics in vision, philosophy, and psychology, among others. The course focuses primarily on internalist ...
AP/LING 3040 3.00
Historical Linguistics
This course is an introduction to the study of languages as they change through time, and to the related topics of dialect geography and linguistic prehistory. We will study methods for constructing earlier stages of ...
AP/LING 3060 3.00
Linguistic History of English
A study of the principal changes in the English language from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.COURSE CREDIT EXCLUSIONS: GL/EN/LIN 4606 6.0; AS/LING 4060 3.0 (prior to Fall/Winter 2001-2002).FORMAT: Two 90-minute sessions weekly.PREREQUISITES: AP/LING 1000 ...
AP/LING 3120 3.00
Phonology 2: Theory
This course builds on the skills acquired in AP/LING 2120 3.0. Students will continue with problem sets from a variety of languages, while being introduced to key issues in current phonological theory.FORMAT: Two 90-minute sessions ...
AP/LING 3140 3.00
Syntax 2: Theory
This course focuses on core aspects of syntactic theory from a Minimalist perspective. Concepts covered in AP/LING 2140 are assumed throughout. Topics discussed include argument structure, VP shells, properties of functional categories, Case theory, head ...
AP/LING 3150 3.00
Semantics
This course is an introduction to topics in formal semantics. The emphasis is on providing students with an understanding of a wide range of semantic phenomena by adopting a truth-conditional account of meaning using a ...
AP/LING 3160 3.00
Discourse Analysis
This course provides an introduction to discourse analysis, that is, the analysis of spoken and written texts in context. Central issues examined include: the relation between linguistic form and function; the relation between text and ...
AP/LING 3210 3.00
First Language Acquisition
This course provides an introduction to children's acquisition of linguistic knowledge, including lexical, morphological, phonological, syntactic, and pragmatic development, and familiarizes students with fundamental issues in current theoretical models of language acquisition. In addition, children's ...
AP/LING 3220 3.00
Psycholinguistics
This section of the course approaches the psychology of language from the perspective of linguistics. After a brief introduction to language structure, the main focus of the course will deal with issues concerning the kinds ...
AP/LING 3240 3.00
Second Language Acquisition
This course provides an introduction to second language acquisition. Issues discussed include linguistic, biological, cognitive, socio-psychological, and socio-educational aspects of second language acquisition. A variety of theoretical models are also considered.COURSE CREDIT EXCLUSIONS: GL/EN/LIN 3606 ...
AP/LING 3400 3.00
Sociolinguistics
This course provides a survey of theoretical and methodological issues in the study of language variation and change, using the framework of variationist sociolinguistics. Topics include: the sociolinguistic variable; variable rules; phonetic and phonological variation; ...
AP/LING 3410 3.00
Writing Systems
This course deals with the interaction of spoken language and writing structure. Topics such as the origin and development of alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East and its later development in Greek and Roman ...
AP/LING 3440 3.00
Bilingualism
This course takes a sociolinguistic approach to the study of bilingualism, with specific focus on the social factors which give rise to and constrain bilingualism, and the linguistic consequences of language contact. Topics include: societal ...
AP/LING 4060 3.00
Canadian English
This course provides an overview of the history, linguistic structure and sociolinguistics of English as spoken in Canada. Topics include: the roots of Canadian English; phonetic and grammatical characteristics; differences from other Englishes; regional variation; ...
AP/LING 4120 3.00
Advanced Phonology
This course concentrates on recent advances in phonological theory within a generative framework. Specific topics include constraint- vs. rule-based approaches to phonology, segmental representation, markedness, and the relation between phonetics and phonology.FORMAT: One 3-hour session ...
AP/LING 4140 3.00
Advanced Syntax
This course aims at providing students with an in-depth understanding of the interaction between theoretical assumptions, analysis and data in syntax. The course concentrates primarily on Minimalist approaches to raising and control, PRO, Case features, ...
AP/LING 4150 3.00
Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface
This course explores issues at the syntax-semantics interface. Topics include the interaction between case, aspect and DP type, the distinction between syntactic versus semantic arguments, and structural encodings of discourse related properties such as topic-comment, ...
AP/LING 4220 3.00
Acoustic Phonetics
An investigation of acoustic-phonetic aspects of speech and their relation to speech perception and recognition. Practical experience in techniques of acoustic-phonetic research.Prerequisite: AP/LING 2110 3.0 and AP/LING 2120 3.0 with grades of C+ or better, ...
AP/LING 4230 3.00
Language and the Brain
This course focuses on the relationship between the human brain and comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. It surveys a variety of language disorders, such as aphasia, delayed language development, dyslexia and language dissolution in ...
AP/LING 4320 6.00
Field Methods
This course provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to conduct independent linguistic field work.PREREQUISITES: AP/LING 2110 3.0, AP/LING 2120 3.0, AP/LING 2130 3.0 and AP/LING 2140 3.0 with grades of C+ or better, ...
AP/LING 4350 3.00
Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Pidgins and creoles are languages that develop from contact between groups of people having no common means of communication. This course examines the historical and social circumstances in which such languages arise, their linguistic characteristics ...
AP/LING 4400 3.00
Research in Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
This course is a practical introduction to sociolinguistic research. We discuss methods of sociolinguistic data collection, including surveys, the sociolinguistic interview and participant observation, and quantitative methods, including summary measures, tests of statistical significance and ...
AP/LING 4440 3.00
Syntactic Change
This course deals with morpho-syntactic change from a generative perspective. The general questions addressed will include the following: Why are some grammatical features better preserved and why do others disappear? How do changes in some ...
AP/LING 4900 6.00
Individualized Reading
This course may be offered by agreement among a senior student, a faculty member, and the Department.PREREQUISITE: AP/LING 2110 3.0, AP/LING 2120 3.0, AP/LING 2130 3.0 and AP/LING 2140 3.0 with grades of C+ or ...
AP/LING 4900 3.00
Individualized Reading
This course may be offered by agreement among a senior student, a faculty member, and the Department.PREREQUISITE: AP/LING 2110 3.0, AP/LING 2120 3.0, AP/LING 2130 3.0 and AP/LING 2140 3.0 with grades of C+ or ...