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. Phonetics, vibration and signal processing, speech recognition, neural networks.

A survey of topics in syntax.

Introduction to meaning in natural language and the methods from logic applied to its study.

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

Experimental and theoretical aspects of how spoken and written language is produced and understood, learned during childhood, and affected by brain damage.

Introduction to modern neural network approaches to natural language processing, based on Deep Learning. Recursive and recurrent neural networks; backpropagation; Ngram models.

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.

Colloquium for presentation and discussion of student research paper. Graded CR/NC.

Introduction to syntax ; transformational-generative syntax.

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

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

Topics in advanced formal syntax; current literature leading to open questions in research; survey of important and controversial issues of current theoretical relevance.

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.

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.