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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS | For a full listing of all the related courses, times, and availability, please visit the official University of Arizona course listings pages. |  |  | LING 403 - Foundations of Syntactic Theory I (3 units) | Description: Introduction to fundamental issues in the theory of syntax. Familiarizes the student with the essentials of (1) government binding theory and its precursors, and (2) standard categorical grammar and its relatives. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Prerequisite(s): LING 503 | Usually offered: Fall |
| LING 544 - Typology and Universals (3 units) | Description: An examination of the syntactic diversity presented by natural human languages and an exploration of the issues that such diversity presents for syntactic analysis. Topics include AUX, word order, constituency, and subjects. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Usually offered: Fall |
| LING 515 - Phonological Phonetics (3 units) | Description: Study of the acoustic and articulatory properties of sounds and patterns of sounds that occur in human language. Focus on the significance of the properties of sounds for phonological theory, in particular, distinctive feature theory. Role of psycho-acoustic studies as a source of evidence for phonological theory. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project or research paper. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Usually offered: Fall |
| LING 439 - Statistical Natural Language Processing (3 units) | Description: This course introduces the key concepts underlying statistical natural language processing. Students will learn a variety of techniques for the computational modeling of natural language, including: n-gram models, smoothing, Hidden Markov models, Bayesian Inference, Expectation Maximization, Viterbi, Inside-Outside Algorithm for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars, and higher-order language models. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Prerequisite(s): LING 388, LING 438 | Usually offered: Fall, Spring |
| LING 696G - Topics in Computational Linguistics (3 units) | Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. | Grading: Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course:
May be repeated: for a total of 18 units of credit | Identical to: CSC 696G | May be convened with: CSC 696G | Usually offered: Fall, Spring |
| LING 578 - Speech Technology (3 units) | Description: Topics include speech synthesis, speech recognition, and other speech technologies. This course gives students background for a career in the speech technology industry. Graduate students will do extra readings, extra assignments, and have an extra presentation. Their final project must constitute original work in a speech technology (UGs may do a literature review). | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Identical to: SPH 578 | May be convened with: LING 478 | Usually offered: Spring |
HLT Business Course | | | LING 501 - Formal Foundations of Linguistics (3 units) | Description: A survey of the aims of linguistic research and introduction to the basic mathematics of formal linguistics; logic, sets, algebra, graphs, feature structures, formal language theory. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Identical to: SLAT 501 | May be convened with: SLAT 501 | Usually offered: Fall |
| LING 504 - Advanced Syntactic Theory (3 units) | Description: Continuation of 503, focusing on government, control, binding, thematic relations, and the theory of logical form. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Prerequisite(s): LING 403/503 or consent of instructor | Identical to: SLAT 504 | May be convened with: SLAT 504 | Usually offered: Spring |
| LING 505 - Theories of Grammar (3 units) | Description: A continuation of 503, this class compares alternative non-Chomskyan theoretical approaches to syntactic theory. Including Relational Grammar, Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Categorical Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Usually offered: Spring |
| LING 510 - Foundations of Phonological Theory I (3 units) | Description: Investigation of the principles that underlie current phonological theory, concentrating on the representation of sounds and the regular patterns of sound in natural language. Topics include distinctive feature theory, syllable theory, the core skeleton, rule formulation and rule interactions. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of problems. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Prerequisite(s): LING 388, LING 438 | Identical to: SLAT 510 | May be convened with: LING 410 | Usually offered: Fall |
| LING 522 - Lexical Semantics (3 units) | Description: Study of word and sentence meaning, relationship between the lexicon and the grammar, idioms, metaphor, etymology, and change of meaning. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E | Prerequisite(s): One course in linguistics | Identical to: PHIL 522 | May be convened with: | Usually offered: Spring |
| CSC 620 - Advanced Topics in Programming Languages (3 units) | Description: Design, implementation, and compilation of programming languages; specific topics to be determined by current literature and faculty and student interest. | Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E
Special course fee required: $15
May be repeated: for credit 3 times (maximum 4 enrollments) | Usually offered: Fall, Spring |
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