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Undergraduate Courses

This is taken from the final draft of the timetable.

Graduate courses

Graduate courses are co-taught with 3000-level undergraduate courses. All graduate students must receive permission to enrol in these courses from the Graduate Committee before registering. Graduate students may not register for undergraduate course numbers.

Variable-topic courses for 2012-13

Variable-content courses require prerequisites and/or instructor permission for undergraduates. Graduate students must have prior approval of the Graduate Committee, and must register for the graduate (7000-level) course number.

Please be aware that several of these courses share a course number (e.g. 3820 Special Topics) and are differentiated in each term with a suffix (T01, T02, etc.). Please be sure you are signing up for the correct course in the correct term when you register. Students are responsible for ensuring that all pre-requisites have been met (or instructor permission has been granted) before registering for any course.

¹Papuan Languages

LING 3200 (both terms), LING 7620 T01(fall/winter)
Structure of a non-Indoeuropean Language (6) / Seminar in North American Indian languages (3/3)

Dr Lorna MacDonald
TR 11:30-12:45, room(s) TBA

Description to be added (Grad students must register for both terms. Do not be fooled. Papuan languages are not North American Indian languages. That just happens to be the graduate number they used.)

²Language Contact and Code-switching

LING 3820 T01 (fall) / LING 7920 T01 (fall)
Special topics (3) / Special problems in linguistic research (3)

Dr Verónica Loureiro-Rodriguez
MWF 9:30-10:20, room TBA

In this course we will examine the phenomenon of language contact from both structural and sociocultural angles. Among other topics, will look at linguistic borrowing, formal models and social aspects of code-switching, and artistic code-mixing (specifically, in rap lyrics). This course will be of interest to students with specializations in syntax, phonetics/phonology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Prerequisites: Students registering for this course must have taken at least three courses at the 2000 level, or receive written permission from the instructor.

³Seminar in Advanced Interpretation Theory

LING 3820 T02 (fall) / LING 7920 T04 (fall)
Special topics (3) / Special problems in linguistic research (3)

Dr Terry Janzen
Tues 7-10pm, room TBA

In this “special topics in linguistics” seminar we will examine aspects of interpretation theory beyond the basics. The discussion will focus in particular on issues of language use in interpreting, which may include topics such as intersubjectivity and interpreter stance and its effect on language choices; contextualization in both source and target texts; the problem of non-equivalence in semantics and in linguistic structure; the ethics of the interpreter’s linguistic choices in their interpretation; language and power; and gender and gendered language in interpretation. The seminar will include a set of readings along with class discussion. Each student will be required to write a research paper on a topic of their choice.

Prerequisites: Students entering this course must have at least three courses at the 2000 level in linguistics, or have written permission from the instructor. Working knowledge of two languages is preferred.

⁴TBA

LING 3820 T01 (win) / LING 7920 T02 (win)
Special topics (3) / Special problems in linguistic research (3)

Dr Jila Ghomeshi
MW 2:30-3:45, room TBA

Description to be added.

⁵Prosody in Phonology and Phonetics

LING 3820 T02 (win) / LING 7920 T01 (win)
Special topics (3) / Special problems in linguistic research (3)

Dr Robert Hagiwara
MWF 10:30-11:20, room TBA

Prosody is the domain of phonology and phonetics 'above the level of the segment'. In this course we will explore several approaches to prosodic organization and the interaction of prosodic and segmental representations. Topics will include segment and syllable quantity (timing and weight), word and phrasal prominence, metrical stress and phrasal prominence, the prosodic hierarchy, autosegmental-metrical representations of tone and intonation, and interactions of prosodic constituents with segmental and featural variation.

Prerequisites: LING 1380 General Phonetics and LING 2420 Phonology, or instructor permission.

⁶Corpus-based Sign Language Research

LING 3840 T01 (fall) / LING 7920 T03 (fall)
Special topics in ASL (3) / Special problems in linguistic research (3)

Dr Erin Wilkinson
TR 4-5:15, room TBA

In this course we will survey corpus-based research in signed languages and learn how language corpora contribute to linguistic research.Language corpus is based on a collection of language use in naturalistic discourse context such as narratives, monologues, and conversations. Also, a corpus provides us the capacity to empirically examine patterns in a given language. Throughout the course, we will learn how American Sign Language (ASL) is structured by form and function by drawing patterns from the ASL corpus.Data permitted, we will learn how to annotate specific linguistic components through the process of identification, tagging, and coding. To name few, areas of interest will involve lemmatization (inflected forms clustered together in one larger set) and distributional patterns of particular signed forms (e.g. tokens and types) that may be varied in accord to specific genres and/or other factors. We will also learn about the role of frequency in ASL that shapes specific lexical and grammatical forms in particular behaviours. This course is designated to provide students hands-on experience building a small corpus project on ASL.