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Program Requirements
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration Linguistics.
Required Courses (9 credits)
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LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Primarily for students intending to take further courses in linguistics. Topics include: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Students will be introduced to techniques of linguistic analysis.
Terms: Fall 2012, Winter 2013
Instructors: Vander Klok, Jozina; Drummond, Alex (Fall) Schwarz, Bernhard; Skinner, Tobin; Alonso-Ovalle, Luis Fernando (Winter)
Fall and Winter
No prerequisite.
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LING 330 Phonetics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Transcription, identification, and production of speech sounds. Introduction to the acoustic properties of speech sounds, acoustic analysis of speech, and auditory phonetics.
Terms: Winter 2013, Summer 2013
Instructors: Sonderegger, Morgan (Winter) Campbell, Fiona Margaret (Summer)
Winter
Prerequisite: LlNG 201
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LING 371 Syntax 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Introduction to the study of generative syntax of natural languages, emphasizing basic concepts and formalism: phrase structure rules, transformations, and conditions on rules.
Terms: Winter 2013
Instructors: Drummond, Alex (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 201.
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
9 credits in Linguistics (LING) selected as follows:
3 credits must be at the 400 or 500 level,
3 credits must be selected from the following list, and
3 credits can be chosen according to the student's interests.
Note: If a 400- or 500-level course is chosen from the following list, the remaining 6 credits can be chosen according to the student's interests.
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LING 320 Sociolinguistics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : A survey of language in its social context. The main focus will be on the influence of social factors like age, gender, social class and speech style on linguistic variation and change. Contact amongst languages (e.g. in Montreal) and the birth and death of languages will also be discussed.
Terms: Winter 2013
Instructors: Boberg, Charles Soren (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 201.
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LING 325 Canadian English (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : A diverse, interdisciplinary set of perspectives on the English language in Canada, including its status as one of many Canadian languages and as the expressive medium of English-Canadian culture, the history of English-speaking settlement in Canada, and linguistic analysis of its main distinguishing features, regional variation and changes in progress.
Terms: Fall 2012
Instructors: Boberg, Charles Soren (Fall)
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LING 350 Linguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Linguistic competence and performance in bilinguals: the organization of the bilingual's grammar. Syntactic constraints on code mixing: How many grammars are involved? Unidirectional and bidirectional grammatical interference. Structural distance between genetically related and unrelated languages and its effect on the organization of the bilingual's grammar.
Terms: Winter 2013
Instructors: Nossalik, Larissa (Winter)
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LING 355 Language Acquisition 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : A critical study of the application of linguistic theory and description to first and second language learning. Topics include: the acquisition of sounds, syntax and word meanings; acquisition strategies; properties of the input; theories of first and second language acquisition.
Terms: Fall 2012
Instructors: Nossalik, Larissa (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: LING 201.
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LING 390 Neuroscience of Language (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : The neurobiological study of the human language faculty. Theoretical and experimental approaches to neurolinguistics, focusing on linguistic capacity in the healthy and damaged brain.
Terms: Fall 2012
Instructors: Grodzinsky, Yosef (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Linguistics, Psychology or Neuroscience at the 200 level or above.
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LING 425 Historical Linguistics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : An examination of how languages change over time and the methods that allow us to study linguistic history. Topics include: types of language change (sound change, anology, etc.) linguistic reconstruction, the origins of modern languages.
Terms: Fall 2012
Instructors: Boberg, Charles Soren (Fall)
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LING 450 Laboratory Linguistics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Students with a background in some core area(s) of linguistics will learn how to test linguistic theories in the lab. The focus is on learning by doing: Students will design and carry out their own experiments, and will learn some basic statistics to evaluate them.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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LING 451 Acquisition of Phonology (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Exploration of the development of prosodic and segmental structure in children, with an emphasis on current theoretically-informed work in this area.
Terms: Winter 2013
Instructors: Goad, Heather (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 331; a course in language acquisition highly recommended.
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LING 455 Second Language Syntax (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : The nature of the linguistic knowledge acquired by second language learners, focusing on description and explanation of second language syntax and morphology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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LING 520 Sociolinguistics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : A seminar on variationist "micro-sociolinguistics", including a survey of the most important primary literature on sociolinguistic variation and introduction to sociolinguistic fieldwork.
Terms: Winter 2013
Instructors: Boberg, Charles Soren (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 320 or permission of instructor.
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LING 521 Dialectology (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : An introduction to the theory and methods of dialectology (the study of regional variation in language) with an emphasis on connections with linguistic theory. Students will also acquire a practical knowledge of major differences among dialects of English, and will gain hands-on experience in the planning, implementation and analysis of a dialect survey.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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LING 530 Acoustic Phonetics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : This course will introduce students to the fundamental principles of acoustic phonetics, focusing on an acoustic model of sound production by the vocal tract and the principles and techniques of acoustic analysis of speech. Classes will be a mix of lectures and hands-on lab-based activities and class discussions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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LING 555 Language Acquisition 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : A detailed overview of recent experimental work on first language acquisition of syntax within the principles and parameters framework, concentrating on both theoretical and methodological issues.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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LING 590 Language Acquisition and Breakdown (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Theoretical and experimental perspectives on an imperfect language faculty, in the context of current linguistic theory and state-of-the-art experimental methods and techniques. Comparison of linguistic abilities of normally developing children, children with language disorders (e.g., SLI), and adults with disrupted linguistic abilities (e.g., aphasic patients).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Students who take LING 360 as a complementary course may also take PHIL 210 as a complementary but must choose a 400- or 500-level course from the list above.
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LING 360 Introduction to Semantics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Introduction to the rudiments of semantics, focusing on those aspects of meaning that are invariant across contexts and the ways in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituents.
Terms: Fall 2012
Instructors: Gillon, Brendan S (Fall)
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PHIL 210 Introduction to Deductive Logic 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
Terms: Fall 2012, Summer 2013
Instructors: Hallett, Michael Frank (Fall) Guindon, Bruno (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
Bachelor of Arts & Science—2012-2013 (last updated Feb. 14, 2013) (disclaimer)