Humanities Postgraduate Degrees

...Core readings will address questions such as: We will consider specific topics for discussion and additional readings depending on the interests of the seminar participants... Learn about: Social Science...

...How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race? Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Race is a hotly contested issue in contemporary politics and medicine...

...version complete different assignments. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session We will be considering three fundamental questions...

...sentences that are used to talk about habits, tendencies, dispositions, or kinds. For instance: Capturing the meaning of generic sentences turns out...

...On a non-linguistic level, the course aims to teach you by example the virtues of formulating precise and explicit descriptive statements; and to develop...

...discoveries of the field of syntax. We will explore the hierarchical organization of language and look at a number of syntactic phenomena that are common...

...We will try to give you an understanding of the concepts of semantics and pragmatics and of some of the technical tools that we use. Lectures...

...(and typically to the instructors as well). In some ways it simulates traditional field methods research. In terms of format, we work in both group...

...the use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual and prosodic information in language comprehension; the relationship between the computational...

...examining ways in which these disorders confront theories of language and acquisition. Seminars: 1 session / week; 2.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites...

...is designed to teach future scientists in the study of language acquisition. Much of the learning in this class happens through student-professor interaction...

...1.5 hours / session They will be assigned almost every week, and will range from mechanical exercises to critiques of the literature to empirical problems...

...phrase structure, and the architecture of the grammar. By longstanding tradition, this semester focuses more on A-bar phenomena than the Fall course...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session From each set of readings, two (in most weeks) will be highlighted for presentation by students...

...and another to presupposition. In each unit, we will discuss basic concepts and technical tools and then devote some time to recent work which illustrates their application...

...generative semantics, government-binding theory/minimalism, LFG, HPSG, TAG, functionalist perspectives and others. An overarching issue in linguistic theory...

...Activities include problem solving, squibs, and data collection. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Permission of the instructor...

...it has been claimed that all of these phenomena can be analyzed with a single theoretical device: correspondence constraints, which regulate the similarity...

...3 hours / session Many details of phonetic realization cannot be predicted from standard phonological representations on a language-independent basis...

...to provide hands-on experience with various aspects of using and developing models, including preparing training data, running simulations, and interpreting their results...