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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by cfortin · returned 4 results
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LING 115 Introduction to the Theory of Syntax 6 credits
This course is organized to enable the student to actively participate in the construction of a rather elaborate theory of the nature of human cognitive capacity to acquire and use natural languages. In particular, we concentrate on one aspect of that capacity: the unconscious acquisition of a grammar that enables a speaker of a language to produce and recognize sentences that have not been previously encountered. In the first part of the course, we concentrate on gathering notation and terminology intended to allow an explicit and manageable description. In the second part, we depend on written and oral student contributions in a cooperative enterprise of theory construction.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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LING 115.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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LING 115.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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LING 216 Generative Approaches to Syntax 6 credits
This course has two primary goals: to provide participants with a forum to continue to develop their analytical skills (i.e., to ‘do syntax’), and to acquaint them with generative syntactic theory, especially the Principles and Parameters approach. Participants will sharpen their technological acumen, through weekly problem solving, and engage in independent thinking and analysis, by means of formally proposing novel syntactic analyses for linguistic phenomena. By the conclusion of the course, participants will be prepared to read and critically evaluate primary literature couched within this theoretical framework.
- Winter 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Linguistics 115
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LING 216.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LING 275 First Language Acquisition 6 credits
Humans are unique among animals in that we attain native speaker competency in any language(s) we receive a sufficient amount of exposure to during the right time of our development. The path of first language acquisition is remarkably stable regardless of the language(s) being acquired, and yields insights into the nature of human language. In this course, we explore children’s capacity to acquire language, with a focus on its implications for linguistic theory. Topics include acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and acquisition in extraordinary circumstances.
- Winter 2024
- Social Inquiry
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100-level linguistics course
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LING 275.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LING 325 Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language 6 credits
In this course we examine, with the help of a native speaker consultant, the syntax of a language deliberately chosen for its being unfamiliar to all the participants. Our goals will be to construct a coherent and theoretically respectable account of principles of the grammar of this language, and to understand what our account reveals about the structure of human language generally. Each student will investigate some aspect of the syntax of the language in depth, culminating in a class presentation and research report.
- Fall 2023
- Science with Lab
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Linguistics 216
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LING 325.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am