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Topics in Linguistics

CAS LX 690

Topics and pre-requisites vary by semester and section. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Please see "Notes" for current offering.

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
A1	Yacovone	CGS 123	MWF 1:25 pm-2:15 pm	Topics in Linguistics: Child Language Acquisition (A1) This course explores current and classic theories of language acquisition and assesses the empirical evidence underlying them. Students will learn through lecture, hands-on research, and lab-based demonstrations. Topics include linguistic nativism/empiricism, speech/sign perception, word recognition, and other sentence processing phenomena. Pre-req: CAS LX 250, or consent of instructor

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
B1	Kim	CGS 123	TR 3:30 pm-4:45 pm	Topics in Linguistics: Cognitive Science & Language (B1) This course serves as an introduction to studying language as a part of broader cognitive science, exploring questions about the nature of linguistic representations, how they are processed and acquired, and how they interact with other cognitive domains. Pre-req: CAS LX 250, or consent of instructor

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
C1	Hao	CGS 515	MWF 2:30 pm-3:20 pm	Topics in Linguistics: Academic Writing and Communication (C1) Writing, presenting, and promoting one’s research are the bread and butter of academia. In this seminar course, graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in graduate study learn to communicate clearly and effectively in a scholarly setting through practice, critique, and peer review. Students from all disciplines are welcome, but the course material will focus on theoretical, computational, and experimental linguistics. Prerequisites: Students should have at least one piece of academic writing on which they are willing to receive feedback from classmates.

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