Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Crosslisted with FSEM 105 and SWGS 105. Cross-list: FSEM 105, SWGS 105.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of the scientific study of the structure and function of language. Introduces the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Highlights the interdisciplinary relationship of linguistics with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cognitive sciences. Cross-list: ANTH 200.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity, and geographic variation affect language use. Cross-list: SWGS 205.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH ASIA

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore how both in history and contemporary South Asian society, linguistic identity has transformed ideology in nationalist and post-nationalist struggles. In the process examining issues of multilingualism, morality and literacy, language conflicts, language use in media, advertising and cinema. Viewing the political, civil society and social movements through the prism of language pluralism. Cross-list: ANTH 209, ASIA 209.

Long Title: SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200

Description: This course will describe the basics of speech and hearing science, including but not limited to: anatomy and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms, neural pathways involved in speech and hearing, speech pathology and audiology, types of speech and hearing disorders, their causes, and types of therapies available for the remediation of these disorders.

Long Title: WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal structure and the nature and history of English vocabulary. Aims are to enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, legal, and humanistic vocabulary. No previous linguistics background required. Cross-list: ENGL 215.

Long Title: PRACTICAL AND FORENSIC PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will provide an introduction to the perception, production and description of the sounds of the world's languages. The primary goal will be to practice phonetic observation skills necessary to language description and sociolinguistics as well as their application to clinical and forensic linguistic work. The course will involve extensive work with English and Non English data sets.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

Description: A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements, causatives. Cross-list: ANTH 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 500. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 300 if student has credit for LING 500.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

Description: Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Cross-list: ANTH 301, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 501. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 301 if student has credit for LING 501.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300

Description: An introduction to syntactic analysis and argumentation. Various topics will be covered, including (but not limited to) word classes, grammatical categories, simple and complex sentences, and constituency. GR/UG Equivalency: LING 504. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 504. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 304 if student has credit for LING 504.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200

Description: Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change, syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: ANTH 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 305 if student has credit for LING 505.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MIND

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR LING 300

Description: Study of language as a cognitive system. Linguistic data as evidence for the cognitive structures and processes that enable people to learn and use language; how linguistic structure influences concept formation and patterns of thinking. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 506. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 306 if student has credit for LING 506.

Long Title: PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 101 AND PSYC 203

Description: Study of human and other animal communication. Includes the structure of human language, word meaning and semantic memory, psychological studies of syntax, bilingualism, language and thought, and language errors and disorders. Cross-list: PSYC 309.

Long Title: MORPHOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 AND LING 311

Description: Morphology is the study of word formation and the relationship between form, meaning, and syntax. This course is an introduction to morphological theory. Topics covered include approaches to word formation, morphological change, and morphological phenomena in diverse languages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 510. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 310 if student has credit for LING 510.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 200 OR LING 200) AND (ANTH 301 OR LING 301) or permission of instructor

Description: Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets, and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Crosslisted with ANTH 323. Cross-list: ANTH 323.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigation of the relation between language and thought, language and worldview, and language and logic. Cross-list: ANTH 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 513. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 313 if student has credit for LING 513.

Long Title: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys and critiques various theories of second language acquisition. Major topics are: analysis of linguistic, cognitive and social processes in the development of second languages, formal hypothesis of non-academic and classroom L2 learning, analysis of various SLA research methodologies and interpretation of findings from SLA research. Cross-list: SPAN 381.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics and related fields. Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Cross-list: PSYC 315, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 515. Recommended prerequisite: LING 200 or ANTH 200. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 315 if student has credit for LING 515.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF FRENCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological developments. Beyond the specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of any language. Taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 318.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 102

Description: Examination of the linguistic structure of Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR), including aspects of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Course is taught in English, but knowledge of Russian equivalent to completion of two semesters of college level language instruction is required; two years recommended. Cross-list: RUSS 319. Recommended Prerequisite(s): RUSS 202.

Long Title: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did Human Language arise, and what role did language play in the evolution of our species? This course introduces the basic sources of evidence (e.g., fossil remains, comparative primatology, neonatal development) for knowledge of human linguistic prehistory, including the spread of modern humans and human language throughout the world.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Chinese with special attention to contrastive analysis of selected topics of Chinese and English, including expressions of tense and aspect, conditional and counterfactual, word formation (morphology), the notion of syntactic category, grammaticalization, metaphor, Chinese writing system and sociolinguistics. Taught in English. Cross-list: CHIN 321.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND ETHINICITY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 205

Description: This course explores the role that ethnicity plays in various language varieties used in the U.S., and the role that language varieties play in ethnic identity. We examine this from both speech production and speech perception perspectives.

Long Title: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on some of the central aspects of first language acquisition. Topics include statistical learning; the use of special kinds of input modification ('motherese') ; how children's grammatical, lexical-semantic, and phonological systems develop; the critical period hypothesis ; and language development in the absence of a conventional model ('home sign'). Cross-list: PSYC 325.

Long Title: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigation of the nature of linguistic representations from corpus-based analyses as compared to more traditional methodologies. Includes the collection of individual text data (or the exploration of existing text sources), the use of various text analysis programs (e.g. concordance software), and the production of lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, or cultural analyses of selected texts, using computer-based methods. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 530. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 330 if student has credit for LING 530.

Long Title: THEORY AND METHODS OF TEACHING ESL AND FL

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of teaching a second language. Includes the process of language learning viewed from social, psychological, and linguistic perspectives, as well as commonly used teaching "methods," such as the audio-lingual method, situational language teaching, the natural approach, and TPR, among others. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 540. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 340 if student has credit for LING 540.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF KOREAN AND RELATED LANGUAGES IN EAST ASIA

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course focuses on the origin of Korean and related languages. It explores the way the Korean language evolved and interacted with other East Asian Languages, including Chinese and Japanese. The sociolinguistic aspect of these languages will be studied, including the difference in male and female language used and the honorific systems. Cross-list: ASIA 345, KORE 345.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 AND JAPA 202)

Description: This course examines current issues in Japanese grammar in the framework of contemporary linguistic theory. Where appropriate, the traditional kokugogaku approach is compared with modern linguistic approaches. Basic knowledge of both Japanese and linguistics is required. Cross-list: JAPA 370. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE LINGUISTIC TURN: LANGUAGE, NARRATION, AND MODERNITY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will look at the role of narration in the construction of some of the basic forms of modernity and post-modernity, ranging from nationalism to performative approaches to identity. The first half of the course will introduce the basic linguistic tools necessary to analyze a variety of cultural materials, and the second half will be devoted to analyzing specific texts and student presentations. The course does not presuppose any technical training in linguistics or literary analysis. Cross-list: ANTH 373.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics. Cross-list: ENGL 394.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major developments in English, starting from its Indo-European and Germanic origins, then observing stages of the language from Anglo-Saxon to Middle English to Early Modern English via literary landmarks. Includes phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical developments, as well as sociolinguisitic aspects such as the emergence of "standard English" and the development of post-colonial Englishes. Cross-list: ENGL 395.

Long Title: PROFESSIONS IN THE SPEECH SCIENCES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Students will attend a series of presentations by Houston area speech and hearing professionals who will discuss their current research and/or clinical focus. Students will also research career paths in the speech sciences. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The foundations of important linguistic ideas and currents in the classic work of 19th and 20th century linguists, with reference to their influence on modern theories. Includes discussion of the Neogrammarians, Saussure, Sapir, Jespersen, Bloomfield, Whorf, and American and European structuralists. Taught as a pro-seminar.

Long Title: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC THEORIES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 300 OR ANTH 300) OR (LING 500 OR ANTH 500) or permission of instructor

Description: Compares and explores the nature of data, argumentation, goals, and assumptions of current theoretical approaches to language and linguistics. Centers on the discussion of general readings and source articles from cognitive, generative, typological, discourse-functional, and sociolinguistic orientations. Emphasizes critical thinking and awareness of the potential benefits and drawbacks of each approach.

Long Title: DISCOURSE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300

Description: An overview of features and organization of language-in-use. Examination of the macro-structure of different genres of discourse, the interplay between language and social/cultural interaction, and the role of discourse and communication in motivating and shaping grammatical form.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and their underlying logical principles. Cross-list: ANTH 406.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human language. Cross-list: ANTH 407. Recommended Prerequisite(s): LING 300, LING 301, LING 304. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 407 OR LING 407

Description: Observation, analysis and recording of a human language. Focus on morphosyntactic description. Cross-list: ANTH 408. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 OR ANTH 200 or permission of instructor

Description: Course content varies from year to year. Spring 10 Description: This course will serve to introduce the students to basics of natural language processing, understanding and generation. We will cover topics ranging from finite-state automata, to n-gram, Hidden Markov, and Maximum Entropy models. These topics will be extended to part of speech tagging, syntactic and statistical parsing, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis and information extraction. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RHETORIC

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of classical series of rhetoric and followed by more intensive discussions both of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Cross-list: ANTH 412.

Long Title: NEUROLINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of language and the brain. Includes localization of speech, language, and memory functions, hemispheric dominance, pathologies of speech and language associated with brain damage, and hypotheses of the representation and operation of linguistic information in the cortex. Cross-list: ANTH 411.

Long Title: APPROACHES TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 AND LING 304

Description: Syntactic analysis may be studied from a variety of both generative and functional approaches. In this course, students are introduced to different approaches to theoretical syntax. Topics covered will vary from year to year according to the wishes and background of the students but will include analysis of different syntactic phenomena in LFG, GB/Minimalism, and comparison with functional approaches.

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Application of linguistic theory and method in the analysis of cultural materials. Includes discourse analysis and the structure and interpretation of texts and conversation. Cross-list: ANTH 414.

Long Title: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 OR ANTH 301 OR LING 311 OR ANTH 323 OR LING 501 OR ANTH 501 OR LING 511 OR ANTH 523

Description: Topic: Issues of language and gender, race and class. The course will begin with an overview of contemporary sociolinguistic theory and methodologies. We will then examine the linguistic consequences to speakers of their membership in groups defined in terms of gender, race, and class. Cross-list: SWGS 415.

Long Title: LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND TYPOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 304

Description: Investigation of what human languages have in common and a range of ways in which they can differ. Includes marking patterns in particular linguistic domains (e.g., case marking, animacy, and passives) and theoretical and methodological issues.

Long Title: THE ACQUISITION OF L2 SPANISH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course reviews the available research on the acquisition of the phonology, vocabulary, morphosyntax and discursive pragmatic features of Spanish as a second language. Aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of second language acquisition processes that are specific to Spanish but generalizable to other languages as well. Cross-list: SPAN 382. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BILINGUALISM

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course analyzes bilingualism from a variety of perspectives including cognitive linguistic, and sociocultural viewpoints. Topics to be covered include conceptual representations of the lexicon, sentence parsing, levels of activation of bilingual modes, lexical, phonological, syntactic, and pragmatic interference, code- switching, cultural identity, bilingual education, language and thought, etc. Cross-list: SPAN 440.

Long Title: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an in-depth analysis of general cognitive processes in second language development and cognitive based theories of second language acquisition. Some of the issues to be discussed in detail are perception, attention, memory, automaticity, restructuring, sentence processing, learnability theories, language and intelligence, critical periods for language acquisition, etc.

Long Title: SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SPANISH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Analysis of the modern varieties of Spanish covering phonetics, vocabulary, morphosyntax, and pragmatics. The course requires the completion of a research project with an empirical database. Cross-list: SPAN 350. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TENSE AND ASPECT IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an introduction to (1) the morphosyntactic analysis of tense-aspect systems, (2) the development of inflectional morphology among first and second language learners, (3) the sequence and rate of development of aspectual contrasts, (4) the differences between natural and academic learning sessions and (5) the impact of pedagogical manipulations. Cross-list: SPAN 444. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: THE EVOLUTION OF SPANISH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an introduction to (1) major historical changes that led to the evolution of Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin) to the Castillian dialect of Spanish (espanol or castellano), and (2) current developments and expected changes in the future of the various representatives of former Castillian dialect. Cross-list: SPAN 380. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 200 or permission of instructor

Description: A course on the structure of Australian languages examining the phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems. Emphasis placed on interaction with original data and making appropriate typological generalizations. Discussion of sociolinguistics, language use, language death, and revitalization. Cross-list: ANTH 421, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 525.

Long Title: ADVANCED PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 AND LING 311

Description: Examination of issues in contemporary phonological theory. Special attention will be given to more advanced representational theories (feature geometry, moraic phonology) and phonetically motivated phonological analysis, especially within the framework of optimality theory.

Long Title: LABORATORY PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 AND LING 311

Description: This course will examine phonetic and phonological phenomena from an empirical point of view, placing priority on first-hand acoustic or experimental data. The primary goal will be the investigation of theoretical issues in the areas of phonetic processing, lexical representation, and phonological patterning. A secondary goal is familiarity with laboratory techniques.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HONORS PROJECT

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Independent directed research toward preparation of an undergraduate honors project or thesis. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 500 and LING 300.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 501 and LING 301.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 500

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 504 and LING 304.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Crosslisted with ANTH 505. GR/UG Equivalent: LING 305. Cross-list: ANTH 505, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 305. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 505 if student has credit for LING 305.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MIND

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GR/UG Equivalent: LING 306. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 306. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 506 if student has credit for LING 306.

Long Title: MORPHOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 510 and LING 310.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and world view, language and logic. Cross-list: ANTH 513, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 313. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 513 if student has credit for LING 313. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 515 and LING 315.

Long Title: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for LING 530 and LING 330.

Long Title: THEORY AND METHODS OF TEACHING ESL AND FL

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GR/UG Equivalent: LING 540. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 340. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 540 if student has credit for LING 340.

Long Title: DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Faculty, graduate students, and invited guests meet weekly to present reports on current research or to discuss current issues in Linguistics. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LINGUISTIC THEORY

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE VARIATION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from semester to semester. For this semester, we will take a more in depth look at language variation as it relates to gender and ethnicity. We will examine such variation from both quantitative and qualitative stand points. Cross-list: SWGS 556. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN DISCOURSE

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TEACHING LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DISSERTATION RESEARCH

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.