This course presents advanced study of linguistic phonetics, building on the material presented in LIN 500 (Linguistic Phonetics). The course will emphasize current questions in phonetic theory and experimental methods. Students will develop skills in using experimental and analytical techniques for conducting research that is relevant to current theoretical questions. This course requires concurrent enrollment in LIN 640 Advanced Laboratory in Linguistics: Phonetics.

Building upon the solid foundation in the broad principles of sociolinguistic inquiry developed in LIN/ANT/SOC 506, this course explores current theoretical debates in sociolinguistics by introducing a series of alternative frameworks, which may include paradigms like traditional Labovian sociolinguistics or the exploration of sociolinguistic concepts in social theory, and students will be responsible for assessing and critiquing each framework as presented. This course may require LIN 640 taken concurrently.

Building on the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological overview of computational and corpus linguistics presented in LIN 510 (Corpus Linguistics) and LIN 511 (Computational Linguistics), this course engages students in advanced applications of computational and corpus theories, concepts, and methods in the study of human language.

An increasingly important method in linguistic research relies on measuring some quantity, and inferring some linguistic reality based on such findings. This course presents scenarios where such an approach makes sense, and outlines the appropriate measures and the safest, most reliable ways in which such measures can be used to draw inferences.

This course provides an introduction to current constraint-based theoretical approaches within phonology, emphasizing Optimality Theoretic approaches. Within this framework students will analyze individual features, sounds and prosodic units, all within problem sets conducted in class and at home. This course may require LIN 640 taken concurrently.

This course takes as its starting point the theoretical and conceptual overview of historical linguistics presented in LIN 519 (and similar theoretical introductions to historical linguistics). Building on that foundation, we engage in advanced investigations in the study of language history.

This course is a seminar allowing advanced graduate students to pursue original research in linguistic phonetics. Each student will investigate a specific question or issue in the field phonetics: s/he will assign readings related to that topic and will lead discussions of those readings with other seminar participants.

Seminar in special topics in linguistic morphology; examples of prospective topics include: morphotactics, morphological complexity, morphological interfaces, paradigm-based morphology. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits. This course may require LIN 740 taken concurrently.

Advanced seminar in special topics in sociolinguistics; examples of prospective topics include: dialectology, world Englishes, sociophonetics, contact phenomena, historical sociolinguistics, and language and identity. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits. This course may require LIN 740 taken concurrently.

Advanced seminar in special topics in the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages; examples of prospective topics include: quantification, generic sentences, temporal semantics, conditionals, conventional implicature, anaphora. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits. This course may require LIN 740 taken concurrently.