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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 Required of graduate students during first year in program. An introduction to linguistics as a profession, its history, subfields, and methodologies. Graduate Proseminar in Linguistics: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Format: Two hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Linguistics/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 The course is designed to help students become professional linguists by showing them how to write abstracts of papers, how to prepare papers for presentation at conferences, and how to prepare written versions of papers for submission as qualifying papers (and for journal publication), as well as to give students practical experience in the public presentation of their work. Advanced Graduate Proseminar in Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: M.A. requirements should be completed or instructor approval
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014 The goal of the course is to help second-year graduate students navigate the graduate program and develop professional skills. Second-Year Proseminar in Linguistics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Second-year standing (or equivalent) in the Linguistics graduate program
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Format: One hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014 The course is designed to help students become professional linguists by showing them how to write abstracts of papers, how to prepare papers for presentation at conferences, and how to prepare written versions of papers for submission as qualifying papers (and for journal publication), as well as to give students practical experience in the public presentation of their work. Advanced Graduate Proseminar in Linguistics: Read More [+]
Credit Restrictions: Course must be taken at the beginning of graduate student's third year.
Formerly known as: Linguistics 201
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2018 This will be an advanced course in cognitive linguistics. Among the topics covered will be cognitive bases for aspects of grammatical structure, cognitive constraints on language change and grammaticalization, and motivations for linguistic universals (i.e., constraints on variability). Advanced Cognitive Linguistics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: 105. Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Format: Three hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Grading: Letter grade.
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Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 This is a graduate-level introduction to psycholinguistics. This course provides an overview of key questions and research findings in psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics focuses on the mechanisms underlying human language production and comprehension. Central to psycholinguistics is the formulation of conceptual and computational models of those mechanisms. Advanced Psycholinguistics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Linguistics or consent of the instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Format: Three hours of seminar per week.
Instructors: Gahl, Johnson
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021 A reading course focusing on theories of speech production, perception, and acoustics as they relate to phonetic and phonological patterns found in the languages of the world. Students write 5-8 "responses" to target articles, and the class as a whole reads background articles and books that place the target articles into their context. Advanced Phonetics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 110. Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Additional Format: Three hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 Introduction to phonological theory at the graduate level with an emphasis on cross-linguistic phonological patterns. Advanced Phonology I: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 111. Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Advanced Phonology I: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Continuation of 211A focusing on topics of current interest in phonological theory. Advanced Phonology II: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 211A
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Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2016 The goal of this course is to provide graduate students with advanced practical training in experimental methods within phonetics. This is a rotating topics course. The specific techniques taught will depend on the instructor. Advanced Experimental Phonetics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Graduate student status or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Instructors: Lin, Johnson
Advanced Experimental Phonetics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2018, Fall 2015 Examination of complex morphological systems. Issues in the theory of word morphology. Advanced Morphology: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: 211A. Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Advanced Morphology: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 This course aims at developing a solid conceptual, analytical, and empirical foundation for doing research in syntax and semantics. The emphasis is on gaining familiarity with the central empirical phenomena, as well as core theoretical notions, methodology, and argumentation. Advanced Syntax I: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Advanced Syntax I: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course continues 220A with an in-depth examination of selected syntactic and semantic phenomena and the methods of their analysis. The phonomena investigated varies with each offering of the course. Advanced Syntax II: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 220A
Advanced Syntax II: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021 This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the core principles and empirical issues addressed by formal semantics and to familiarize them with the analytical tools involved in conducting research in this domain. The focus of this class is truth-conditional aspects of meaning and the compositional interpretation of phrases and sentences. Students will develop skills in semantic analysis and argumentation by focusing on semantic questions that arise in the analysis of a range of different phenomena, including quantification, the semantics of definite/indefinite descriptions, and relative clauses. Advanced Formal Semantics I: Read More [+]
Instructor: Deal
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Terms offered: Fall 2023 Students will continue to be introduced to various foundational issues and results in formal semantics. This course will provide a thorough introduction to intensionality as a phenomenon of natural language, as well as the core techniques and results of intensional (possible-world) semantics and the semantics of tense. In particular, we will examine in depth the semantics of sentential complements, the de re / de dicto distinction, modal auxiliaries, and tense and aspect morphemes. We will pay special attention to the ways that languages may vary with respect to these phenomena. Students will gain exposure to primary literature in the field of semantics through: key course readings, in-class presentations and final research project Advanced Formal Semantics II: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 221 or permission of the instructor
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 This course is a graduate level introduction to linguistic typology that covers quantitative, formal, and functional approaches to the typology of morphosyntactic and phonological phenomena. Students will be introduced to: 1) influential frameworks and tools for typological research including implicational hierarchies, semantic maps, and combinatorial typologies; 2) the status of universals in typology and formal, functional, and diachronic explanations for universals; 3) key topics in typology, including word order correlations and sampling methodology, grammatical relations typology, areal typology, and phonological typology. Advanced Linguistic Typology: Read More [+]
Instructors: Jenks, Michael
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Terms offered: Spring 2015 Construction grammar arose in cognitive linguistics from phenomena showing how thought structures language and how language also structures thought, and from grammatical phenomena that could not be accounted for by transformational grammars. Over the past three decades two major theoretical approaches have evolved: One based on embodied cognition results, conceptual metaphor, and the neural modeling of brain mechanisms necessary to account for thought and language; and another theoretical approach that is disembodied, purely formal, and uses feature structures and head-driven grammars. The course will discuss these and other approaches. Construction Grammar: The Relationship Between Thought and Language: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Either Linguistics C105, C106, or 205. Or permission of instructor
Instructor: Lakoff
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 The scholarly tradition of historical and comparative linguistics. Methods of reconstruction. Advanced Comparative and Historical Linguistics: Read More [+]
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013, Spring 2012 A survey of Indo-European (IE) linguistics, intended for general linguists interested in learning about the most fully developed sub-area of historical linguistics and for language-area specialists interested in how specific language areas relate to IE as a whole. All areas of the field will be surveyed (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, cultural reconstruction, and subgrouping and diversification), with special emphasis on issues of broad current research interest. Indo-European Linguistics: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: An introductory historical linguistics course or a good knowledge of an older Indo-European language
Additional Format: Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021 Training in elicitation and analysis of linguistic data in a simulated field setting. The same language is used throughout the year. Linguistics 240B is the continuation of 240A. Advanced Field Methods: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 211A and Linguistics 220A. Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of session per week
Additional Format: Four hours of session per week.
Advanced Field Methods: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Training in elicitation and analysis of linguistic data in a simulated field setting. The same language is used throughout the year. Linguistics 240B is the continuation of 240A. Advanced Field Methods: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Linguistics 240A
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the relation of language and cognition, through the lens of computation. We will explore universal aspects of cognition that underlie language, and the effect of one's native language on cognition. We will do this by: (1) reading a mixture of classic and recent papers on these issues,(2) replicating or extending computational analyses in those papers,(3) identifying interesting questions that are left open by the material covered, and (4) designing and conducting research to answer those open questions. Language, Computation, and Cognition: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Graduate students in linguistics or one of the other cognitive sciences or consent of instructor
Instructor: Regier
Formerly known as: Linguistics 290R
Language, Computation, and Cognition: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2010 Graduate level survey of anthropological linguistics which seeks to understand the role of culture in linguistic meaning, language use, and the development of linguistic form and, conversely, the role of linguistic form and structure in social action and in cultural practices. Anthropological Linguistics: Read More [+]
Instructor: Michael
Anthropological Linguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2008 This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Variation: Read More [+]
Instructor: Bleaman
Sociolinguistic Analysis: Variation: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2008 This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language Contact: Read More [+]
Instructors: R. Lakoff, Michael
Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language Contact: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2005 This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language and Gender: Read More [+]
Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language and Gender: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2009, Fall 2007 This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Conversation/Discourse Analysis: Read More [+]
Sociolinguistic Analysis: Conversation/Discourse Analysis: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2008 This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Endangered Languages: Read More [+]
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Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019 This course provides consistent engagement with indigenous languages, speakers, and texts. It gives an overview of historical and social contexts that produce language endangerment and loss; definitions and debates over terms and methods associated with language revitalization; ethical and methodological issues in language revitalization work; practical skills in language documentation and linguistic analysis; and case studies and outcomes in language revitalization. Indigenous Language Revitalization: Contexts, Methods, Outcomes: Read More [+]
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022 This is the core course for graduate students who intend to complete the interdisciplinary Designate Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization, and is open to non-DE graduate students as well. The course will provide consistent engagement with indigenous languages, speakers, and texts. The course will provide an overview of historical and social contexts that produce language endangerment and loss; definitions and debates over terms and methods associated with language revitalization; ethical and methodological issues in language revitalization work; practical skills in language documentation and linguistic analysis; and case studies and outcomes in language revitalization. Indigenous Language Revitalization: Contexts, Methods, Outcomes: Read More [+]
Instructor: Baquedano-Lopez
Also listed as: EDUC C251A
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021 This course provides a graduate-level introduction to computational linguistics. We will explore computational principles and methods that cross-cut different branches of linguistics, and will apply those principles to replicate and extend computational analyses in a selection of published papers. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes: Familiarity with computational principles and methods in linguistics, and experience in conducting computational analyses.
Prerequisites: The course is open to graduate students in linguistics or related disciplines. Access for other students is by permission of instructor. Some basic prior experience with programming is necessary, but no prior experience with computational linguistics is required. Starter code for homework assignments will be provided, giving students a basis on which to build further. Programming will be in Python
Instructor: REGIER
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Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course is an introduction to the study of the linguistic and social phenomena that arise when speakers of different languages come in contact with one another, or when a community of speakers makes use of multiple languages. We will attend closely both to the grammatical dimensions of language contact processes and outcomes, and to the socio-historical and cultural conditions under which these processes take place. A major focus of the course will be to critically examine the notion that language contact gives rise to a set of clearly distinguishable language types (pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages), as well as the notion that each of these types arise under determinate socio-historical conditions. Language Contact: Read More [+]
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for LINGUIS 253 after completing LINGUIS 253 . A deficient grade in LINGUIS 253 may be removed by taking LINGUIS 253 .
Language Contact: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 This course is a graduate-level introduction to the major theories and methodologies of sociolinguistics, which addresses the relationship between linguistic structure and the social and cultural contexts in which language is embedded. The course focuses on the variationist tradition but includes readings from allied areas (linguistic anthropology, the sociology of language, etc.). Advanced Sociolinguistics: Read More [+]
Advanced Sociolinguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course addresses the theoretical status and grammatical locus of sociolinguistic variation and develops practical research skills in the quantitative analysis of sociolinguistic variables. Advanced Sociolinguistics: Variation: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: LINGUIS 255 or permission of instructor (graduate standing)
Advanced Sociolinguistics: Variation: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Not yet offered This course provides a graduate-level introduction to statistical models often used in linguistics, primarily mixed-effects linear and logistic regression (LMER) models and Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMM). We will discuss, replicate and extend published analyses drawing on various branches of linguistics, using the R programming environment. Advanced Quantitative Methods in Linguistics: Read More [+]
Student Learning Outcomes: You will gain the ability to understand and critique (many) statistical models in primary literature in Linguistics, to construct, evaluate, and describe statistical models, and to make good modeling decisions.
Prerequisites: Graduate student standing in Linguistics or a related discipline AND successful completion of Linguistics 160 (‘Quantitative Methods in Linguistics’) or equivalent experience with statistics and with the R programming environment. Access for students other than Linguistics graduate students is by permission of instructor
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Linguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2018 An analysis of the language structure of a particular language. The language investigated changes from year to year. Structure of a Particular Language: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: 211A and 220A
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of session per week
Additional Format: Three hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.
Structure of a Particular Language: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2016, Spring 2016 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Syntax: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Topics in Linguistic Theory: Syntax: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2015 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Semantics: Read More [+]
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Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Pragmatics: Read More [+]
Topics in Linguistic Theory: Pragmatics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2017 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Phonology: Read More [+]
Topics in Linguistic Theory: Phonology: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2010 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Diachronic Linguistics: Read More [+]
Topics in Linguistic Theory: Diachronic Linguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 1999, Fall 1998 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Linguistic Reconstruction: Read More [+]
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Seminar or special lecture courses on linguistic topics. Additional Seminar on Special Topics to Be Announced: Read More [+]
Additional Format: Hours to be arranged.
Additional Seminar on Special Topics to Be Announced: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2018 Seminars or special lecture courses. Topics in Linguistic Theory: Psycholinguistics: Read More [+]
Topics in Linguistic Theory: Psycholinguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Mentor undergraduates in research on projects in the subfields of linguistics, sponsored by a faculty member; written report required. Research Mentorship: Read More [+]
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Format: One to two hours of fieldwork per week.
Research Mentorship: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023 Special Group Study: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: One full year of graduate study at Berkeley or consent of graduate adviser
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-8 hours of seminar per week
Additional Format: Two to eight hours of seminar per week.
Special Group Study: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 Special Individual Study: Read More [+]
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-8 hours of independent study per week
Additional Format: Two to eight hours of independent study per week.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 Course may be repeated for credit, but credit for the instructional training portion is to be given only once for each individual course taught by a T.A. For graduate students currently serving as T.A.s in the Department's undergraduate courses. Two units of credit are given for the teaching experience each time a student serving as T.A. enrolls in this course; two more units are given for teaching instruction, this taking the form of weekly consultations between instructors and their T.A.s. Teaching Practice and Instruction: Read More [+]
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of independent study per week
Subject/Course Level: Linguistics/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 A teaching-methods "clinic" for first-time Linguistics GSI's. Sessions will deal with the presentation of linguistic concepts in each of the foundation courses, the creation of homework assignments and examination, policies and practices regarding correction of students' work, grading, and feedback. Training for Linguistics Teaching Assistants: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: 110, 120 and 130 or consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of independent study per week
Additional Format: Two 90-minute sections per week.
Formerly known as: Linguistics 302
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Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the field adviser. Individual Study for Master's Students: Read More [+]
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for master's degree.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Subject/Course Level: Linguistics/Graduate examination preparation
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Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: One full year of graduate work at Berkeley or consent of graduate adviser
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Colloquium lecture presentations by Berkeley faculty and students, and invited visitors, on topics in language and linguistics. Department students and faculty offer feedback, suggestions, and critiques on work in progress. Colloquium: Read More [+]
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Format: Zero hour of colloquium per week.
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Formerly known as: Linguistics 999
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Department of linguistics.
1203 Dwinelle Hall
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Terry Regier, PhD
1221 Dwinelle Hall
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1207 Dwinelle Hall
Phone: 510-643-7224
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1220 Dwinelle Hall
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Ithaca, NY | 5/5 | 14 : 1 | 25,898 | |
Washington, DC | 5/5 | 19 : 1 | 20,984 | |
New York, NY | 5/5 | 21 : 1 | 34,782 | |
Berkeley, CA | 3/5 | 24 : 1 | 45,307 | |
Los Angeles, CA | 5/5 | 23 : 1 | 48,945 |
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Discover which universities around the world are the best for linguistics with the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) continues to be the best university in the world for linguistics, achieving a top score in two of the four rankings indicators. There are some notable climbers in the top 10 ...
Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in Linguistics. A graph of 166M citations received by 9.05M academic papers made by 5,870 universities in the World was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
The Department of Linguistics offers four concentrations leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Linguistics (see list below). No matter the concentration, our faculty work closely with students, guiding their research and supporting their passions. Applicants to the Ph.D. program are encouraged to identify prospective research advisors, at least one of whom should […]
Offers of admission to the Linguistics Ph.D. program include funding for the full five years of doctoral study, including tuition and stipend, regardless of citizenship. We also encourage our applicants to apply for as many external fellowships and scholarships as they are eligible for; a compilation of funding opportunities for Linguistics ...
The PhD in Linguistics at BU aims to produce scholars who are versatile enough to be experts in both of these aspects of linguistic inquiry, yet skilled enough to do cutting-edge research in a particular subfield of the discipline. We offer a solid grounding in a range of research methods, including field methods, quantitative methods, and ...
In this year's QS World University Rankings by Subject, Imperial College London is ranked in the world's top 10 universities. Learn why Imperial College London is one of the UK's best universities. By Craig OCallaghan. Aug 16, 2024. 8.9K 19.
Department of Linguistics Boylston Hall, 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617) 495-4054 Fax: (617) 496-4447 [email protected]
These are the top 100 US universities, based upon the QS World University Rankings 2024. Find out which universities are the best in your home state! By Craig OCallaghan. Apr 12, 2024. 0M 5.4k. Top universities in France. Discover the top universities in France, based on the results of the QS World University Rankings.
Additional information on the graduate program is available from the Department of Linguistics, and requirements for the degree are detailed in Policies. Areas of Study. Historical Linguistics | Linguistic Theory | Unspecified. Admissions Requirements. Please review the admissions requirements and other information before applying.
Explore your Linguistics degree. Linguistics degrees teach students about the nature of language and communication. Future graduates explore topics like grammar, syntax and phonetics, and discover the history and evolution of language. They also develop communication, analytical, research, and critical thinking skills.
Our graduate programs provide a unique environment where linguistic theory, multiple methodologies, and computational research not only coexist, but interact in a highly synergistic fashion. Our focus is on the Ph.D. degree. The department occasionally admits students already enrolled at Stanford for the M.A. degree. Ph.D. students in other ...
Ph.D. in Linguistics | Department of Linguistics | University of Washington. Main Office (Guggenheim Hall 414) is open 8-4pm M-F (closed for lunch 12-1). Please email [email protected] with general questions or leave a message at 206-543-2046. For undergraduate advising, please contact Humanities Academic Services.
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The Department of Linguistics is home to one of the oldest and most distinguished linguistics programs in the United States. Today, students and faculty come from many different backgrounds and represent a wide range of interests, from purely theoretical to typological, historical, and experimental. What they share is a commitment to ...
The entire PhD program in Linguistics is intended to take 5 or 6 years: 2 years for Stage 1, and 3 or 4 years for Stages 2 and 3. Stage 1, which should be completed in two years, consists of 40 hours of graduate coursework, and the Stage 1 qualifying examination; at the completion of Stage 1, students are eligible to receive a MA in Linguistics ...
Linguistics Doctoral Program, Graduate. Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 The course is designed to help students become professional linguists by showing them how to write abstracts of papers, how to prepare papers for presentation at conferences, and how to prepare written versions of papers for submission as qualifying papers (and for journal publication), as well as to give ...
Educating the next generation of scholars in theoretical linguistics. One of the world's top PhD programs in theoretical linguistics, UMass linguistics prepares a small number of students to become high-quality researchers and teachers. The program normally lasts five years, and students may concentrate their work in any of the following ...
Below is a list of best universities in the United States ranked based on their research performance in Linguistics. A graph of 67.1M citations received by 2.28M academic papers made by 1,250 universities in the United States was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
Best Linguistics colleges in the U.S. for 2024. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. Cornell University offers 3 Linguistics degree programs. It's a very large, private not-for-profit, four-year university in a small city. In 2022, 29 Linguistics students graduated with students earning 20 Bachelor's degrees, 6 Master's degrees, and 3 Doctoral ...
#3 Best Colleges in America.. Stanford University. 4 Year,. STANFORD, CA,. 1292 Niche users give it an average review of 4.1 stars. Featured Review: Freshman says Stanford University offers an exceptional academic environment with cutting-edge research opportunities and a vibrant campus life.The access to world-renowned faculty and a diverse, intellectually...
A masters-level (M.A. or M.S.) degree in linguistics covers core areas of language structure, field methods and research. Programs may be class- or thesis-based; most take about two years. A Ph.D. in linguistics may take an additional three to four years. Most doctoral programs encompass masters-level material but focus on theoretical topics in ...
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Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, offers a small college life with the resources of a major research institution. Yale students are divided into 14 residential colleges that ...