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.

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.

Study of human linguistic competence and technologies that simulate it. Grammar, parsing, text generation; semantics, pragmatics, sense disambiguation; phonetics, speech synthesis, speech recognition.

Introduces students to the fundamentals of Arabic-English translation and offers analytical, linguistic and cross-cultural factors affecting interpreting and translation.

A survey of topics in phonetics and phonology.

Analysis of the formal properties of linguistic expressions of number with the goal of understanding the structures that underlie language and numerical reasoning.

Study of language as a complex natural system that requires elaborate mental computation.

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

Principles of cognitive development, learning, and motivation applied to the development of literacy; includes tutoring a child 2 hours per week. Prerequisite: PSYC 336L.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

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

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

Principles and comparison of modern theories of grammar with special reference to syntax.

Current linguistic approaches to the semantics of natural language; analysis of concepts of meaning and reference.

Acquisition of grammatical, discourse, and conversational competence; strategies and structures.

Source-filter theory, acoustic corrrelates of speech sounds, vocal tract and auditory physiology, coarticulation and motor coordination, speech technology including synthesis and recognition, experimental design and statistics, and speech perception.

Current issues in psycholinguistic theory.

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.

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

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.