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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of how and why language changes. Topics include the comparative method, the regularity of sound change, syntactic change, distant genetic relationships, and language evolution.
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3.00 Credits
A comparison of varying and universal features of the world's languages. Prerequisite: 250, 260, or 270.
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3.00 Credits
Phonological, morphological, or syntactic structure of a particular language. May be repeated for credit with change in language.
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3.00 Credits
Articulatory and acoustic phonetics. Syllable structure, phonotactics, prosody, and intonation. Fundamentals of experimental design and data analysis. Prerequisite: 250 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamental principles of theoretical syntax. Phrase structure, argument structure, movement operations. Emphasis on argumentation, hypothesis formation and testing, and analytic methods. Prerequisite: 260 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Issues in theoretical morphology. The internal structure of words. Linguistic and psycholinguistic findings about the representation and processing of word structures. Prerequisite: 250, 260, or 270.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical approaches to the study of linguistic meaning. Topics include word meaning, argument and event structure, sentence meaning, truth conditions, and inference types (e.g., entailment, implicature, presupposition). Prerequisite: 270 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Linguistic and philosophical approaches to the study of reference, focusing on the role of context in utterance production and interpretation. Topics include definiteness, genericity, deixis, and anaphora.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to extrasemantic meaning, focusing on the role of context in utterance production and interpretation. Topics include the semantics-pragmatics boundary, implicature, presupposition, reference, information structure, and speech acts. Prerequisite: 250, 260, or 270.
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3.00 Credits
Conversational English addressing all oral language skills; primarily for international graduate students who are nonnative speakers of English. Content varies.
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