Linguistics

This course is an introduction to the scientific study of language sounds from a common language and individual language point of view. Students must acquire basic knowledge of phonetic analysis of speech sounds, with emphasis on articulatory and acoustic analysis. The course covers the transcription system of The International Phonetic Association (IPA) and the acoustic analysis program PRAAT. The course discusses basic phonological theory, and uses this in phonological analysis. Emphasis is placed on practical skills in both phonetics and phonology. The course recommends students have taken a previous course in linguistics as a prerequisite.

This course provides an introduction to linguistics. The theoretical focus is on the core areas of the discipline: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Students apply theoretical concepts when analyzing concrete linguistic data, primarily from English, with a focus on North American varieties.

The course gives an overview of the most common tools used when transcribing and editing texts, primarily from manuscripts; the different forms of digital presentation of texts; and the types of projects related to corpuses, databases, and editions of premodern texts in which memory institutions (libraries and archives) interact with scholars and the general public. 

This course explores how to analyze and describe linguistic structures (oral and written) through theoretical frameworks on linguistic use. It examines different linguistic productions in the context of production and interpretation. Topics include: discourse and context; the people in discourse; textual typology and discursive genres; linguistic properties of text; discourse and society.