This course is an advanced survey of current areas of research in sociolinguistics. Topics include dialectology, language variation and change, ineractional sociolinguistics, language and gender, bilingualism, and language contact.

This course provides students with the practical skills and the theoretical frameworks needed to understand current research in syntax. You will learn how linguists study the structure of sentences in the languages of the world. You will learn how linguists develop theoretical models to understand the human capacity for language and be introduced to some of these models. You will learn to conduct data analysis, how to evaluate formal hypotheses, and how to provide support for and against these hypotheses.

This course is an investigation of the systematic properties of speech sounds in natural languages. It compares current theoretical approaches to the analysis of individual features and sounds as well as larger prosodic units, and identifies the dimensions of topological variation in the phonological domain. Discussion includes extensive reference to languages other than English.

The focus will be on intensive study of problems and issues that do not fall under linguistics course headings. These may have an interdisciplinary emphasis, or they may concentrate on some special topics of current research. All topics will be subject to review by the director of the program. May be repeated under different subtitle to a maximum of six credits.

The focus will be on intensive study of problems and issues that do not fall under linguistics course headings. These may have an interdisciplinary emphasis, or they may concentrate on some special topics of current research. All topics will be subject to review by the director of the program. May be repeated under different subtitle to a maximum of six credits.

Students pursuing an MA degree in Linguistic Theory & Typology (MALTT) must be equipped with a toolbox of suitable methods for gathering, analyzing, and modeling linguistic data. This course introduces a range of research methods which are widely applicable in scientific investigation but whose linguistic relevance we shall emphasize here. The methods are (1) statistical analysis, (2)computational modeling, (3) field work and (4) experimental techniques.

Advanced investigation into a designated topic in linguistic theory and typology. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve credits under different subtitles.

This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.