LING 490

Fall 2014 All Classes

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Special Topics in Linguistics

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Course provides an opportunity to focus on various subfields of the linguistic sciences, depending on the interests of the faculty and student.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated as topic varies to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours. Students may register for up to two sections in the same term. Prerequisite: LING 100, LING 400, or consent of instructor.

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LING 490 class schedule data for fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
63731	Lecture-Discussion	G4	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	136 Armory	Shih, C Girju, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Advances in computer technology have revolutionized the ways linguists can approach their data. By using computers, we can access large bodies of text and speech corpora to help linguistic analysis in most linguistic sub-disciplines. This course is an introduction to computational research methods applied to large natural language corpora. Corpora give us a chance to uncover complexities in naturally-occurring data and explore issues related to frequency of usage. Another benefit of this course is that it will give students the tools to manage data efficiently. The first part of the course will introduce students to corpus concepts and methods. The second part will cover computational skills needed to build, annotate, and search a corpus for patterns and phenomena of interest. The third part of the course will give students hands-on corpus analysis experience. Topics include syntax (i.e., patterns and alternations), lexical semantics, language variation, second language acquisition, phonetics/phonology/speech, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics (i.e., disfluencies and first language acquisition), and others. Prerequisites: No programming experience is assumed, familiarity with computers is presupposed.Students who took LING402 or equivalent introduction-to-programming courses and want to learn more about corpus building, annotation, and analysis are welcome.
40583	Lecture-Discussion	TI	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Ionin, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14
63730	Lecture-Discussion	U3	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	136 Armory	Shih, C Girju, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Advances in computer technology have revolutionized the ways linguists can approach their data. By using computers, we can access large bodies of text and speech corpora to help linguistic analysis in most linguistic sub-disciplines. This course is an introduction to computational research methods applied to large natural language corpora. Corpora give us a chance to uncover complexities in naturally-occurring data and explore issues related to frequency of usage. Another benefit of this course is that it will give students the tools to manage data efficiently. The first part of the course will introduce students to corpus concepts and methods. The second part will cover computational skills needed to build, annotate, and search a corpus for patterns and phenomena of interest. The third part of the course will give students hands-on corpus analysis experience. Topics include syntax (i.e., patterns and alternations), lexical semantics, language variation, second language acquisition, phonetics/phonology/speech, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics (i.e., disfluencies and first language acquisition), and others. Prerequisites: No programming experience is assumed, familiarity with computers is presupposed.Students who took LING402 or equivalent introduction-to-programming courses and want to learn more about corpus building, annotation, and analysis are welcome.