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LING 115: Writing Systems
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Buckley. The historical origin of writing in Sumeria, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica; the transmission of writing across languages and cultures, including the route from Phoenician to Greek to Etruscan to Latin to English; the development of individual writing systems over time; the traditional classification of written symbols (ideographic, logographic, syllabic, alphabetic); methods of decipherment; differences between spoken and written language; how linguistic structure influences writing, and is reflected by it; social and psychological aspects of writing.
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LING 135: Psychology of Language
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Dahan. Prerequisite(s): LING 001 or PSYC 001. This course describes the nature of human language, how it is used to speak and comprehend, and how it is learned. Subtopics include animal communication, language pathologies, second-language learning, and language in special populations (such as Down Syndrome and autistic children, and children born deaf or blind).
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LING 160: Introduction to African American and Latino English
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Labov. An introduction to the use and structure of dialects of English used by the African American and Latino communities in the United States. It is an academically based service learning course. The field work component involves the study of the language and culture of everyday life and the application of this knowledge to programs for raising the reading levels of elementary school children.
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LING 161: The Sociolinguistics of Reading:A Service Learning Seminar
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Labov. This course will be concerned with the application of current knowledge of dialect differences to reduce the minority differential in reading achievement. Members will conduct projects and design computer programs to reduce cultural distance between teachers and students in local schools and to develop knowledge of word and sound structure.
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LING 202: Introduction to Field Linguistics
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Staff. Prerequisite(s): LING 001, 102 or 330, or permission of instructor. Instruction and practice in primary linguistic research, producing a grammatical sketch and a lexicon through work with native-speaker informants and some reference materials. Informant work will be common with LING 502.
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LING 230: Sound Structure of Language
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Noyer. An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Topics include articulatory phonetics (the anatomy of the vocal tract; how speech sounds are produced); transcription (conventions for representing the sounds of the world's languages); classification (how speech sounds are classified and represented cognitively through distinctive features); phonology (the grammar of speech sounds in various languages: their patterning and interaction); advanced issues in phonological representation (syllables and feature geometry); Optimality Theory (constraint-based versus derivational phonological grammars).
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LING 240: Structure of a Language
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
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LING 250: Introduction to Syntax
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Santorini. This course was formerly numbered LING 150 and is identical in content. This course is an introduction to current syntactic theory, covering the principles that govern phrase structure (the composition of phrases and sentences), movement (dependencies between syntactic constituents), and binding (the interpretation of different types of noun phrases). Although much of the evidence discussed in the class will come from English, evidence from other languages will also play an important role, in keeping with the comparative and universalist perspective of modern syntactic theory.
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LING 255: Formal Semantics and Cognitive Science
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Staff. This course introduces the components and formal mechanisms underlying meaning in human language and uses them as a window on the human mind, its psychological development and adult cognitive processes. Topics include what kinds of concepts a noun or a determiner can encode; how children learn the meaning of words; how these "atoms" of meaning are combined in a mathematical procedure to yield the meaning of sentences; how semantic ambiguities are processed psychologically; and the development of a theory of mind. Formal tools from Set Theory and Predicate Logic will be introduced and applied both to the linguistic and to the cognitive characterization of meaning.
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LING 270: Language Acquisition
3.00 Credits
University of Pennsylvania
Yang. An introduction to language acquisition in children and the development of related cognitive and perceptual systems. Topics include the nature of speech perception and the specialization to the native language; the structure and acquisition of words; children's phonology; the development of grammar; bilingualism and second language acquisition; language learning impairments; the biological basis of language acquisition; the role in language learning in language change. Intended for any undergraduate interested in the psychology and development of language.
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