USC Schedule of Classes

Words as a gateway to the human mind. How words are stored, comprehended and retrieved. How words are constructed. Words and concepts. Words and social constructs. The processing and the acquisition of words in normal and atypical children and adults.

Discourse patterns among diverse social groups in institutional and interpersonal settings; interrelationships among language practices and gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity; social structures and cultural values as reflected in language policies and practices.Concurrent Enrollment: WRIT 140.

Empirical study of the sounds and structures of human language; syntax and semantics; language change; linguistic universals.

Language within cognitive science: speech physiology and acoustics, language acquisition, reading, language disorders, perception and mental representation of words, linguistic diversity and computer analysis of speech.

A survey of topics in syntax and semantics.

Linguistic and cultural pluralism in the U.S.; distributional and structural characteristics of selected urban and minority dialects; the relationship between dialects and "media standard."

Introduction to the world's linguistic diversity; number of languages spoken and where; grammatical structure and social function of selected languages.

Universal characteristics of child language; stages of acquisition of phonology, syntax, semantics; processes and dimensions of development; psychological mechanisms; communicative styles.

Principles of semantics; analysis of speech acts including informing, promising, threatening, warning; linguistic analysis of consumer contracts and advertisements; readability studies.

Analysis of grammatical structures of an individual language.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of the honors thesis. Registration is restricted to honors students.

(LING 505abc) Exploration of the professional world of linguistics for first semestr graduate students.Graded CR/NC.

Preparation and presentation of M.A./Ph.D. screening papers; discussion of student research. Graded CR/NC.

Introduction to syntax ; transformational-generative syntax.

Traditional views of phonology; generative phonology; current developments in phonological research and theory.

An introduction to logic in preparation for advanced work in semantics and linguistic theory.

Descriptive and theoretical analyses of the grammers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; emphasis on comparative studies of these languages and English.

Theories of acquisition; sentence and discourse processing; language and thought.

Familiarization with articulation, transcription, production, and acoustic analysis of the speech sounds found in the world's languages. Also speech technology, perception, and disorders. Includes laboratory exercises.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Graded CR/NC. Open only to doctoral students.

Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.

Readings in phonetic theory and current research as the framework for a discussion-oriented class.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.