LPAP 299 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits: 1 Course URL: http://www.rice.edu/lpap Independent study is intended for the student who shows interest in an area of study not offered or who wishes to pursue a discipline in greater depth than possible through the regular curriculum. Prerequisite: Successful completion of LPAP graduation requirement. Equivalency: LPAP 199. Instructor permission required College: Dean of Undergraduates Department: Lifetime Phys Activity Program
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LING 105 - LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY Credits: 3 This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 105, SWGS 105. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 200 - INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE Credits: 3 Overview of the scientific study of the structure and function of language. Introduces the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Highlights the interdisciplinary relationship of linguistics with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cognitive sciences. Cross-list: ANTH 200. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 205 - LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY Credits: 3 This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity, and geographic variation affect language use. Cross-list: SWGS 205. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 212 - SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCE Credits: 3 This course will describe the basics of speech and hearing science, including but not limited to: anatomy and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms, neural pathways involved in speech and hearing, speech pathology and audiology, types of speech and hearing disorders, their causes, and types of therapies available for the remediation of these disorders. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 215 - WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal structure and the nature and history of English vocabulary. Aims are to enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, legal, and humanistic vocabulary. No previous linguistics background required. Cross-list: ENGL 215. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 299 - PRACTICAL AND FORENSIC PHONETICS Credits: 3 This course will provide an introduction to the perception, production and description of the sounds of the world's languages. The primary goal will be to practice phonetic observation skills necessary to language description and sociolinguistics as well as their application to clinical and forensic linguistic work. The course will involve extensive work with English and Non English data sets. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 300 - LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling300/ A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements, causatives. Cross-list: ANTH 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 500. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 301 - PHONETICS Credits: 3 Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Cross-list: ANTH 301, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 501. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 304 - INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX Credits: 3 An introduction to syntactic analysis and argumentation. Various topics will be covered, including (but not limited to) word classes, grammatical categories, simple and complex sentences, and constituency. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 504. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 305 - HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits: 3 Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change, syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: ANTH 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 505. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 306 - LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MIND Credits: 3 Study of language as a cognitive system. Linguistic data as evidence for the cognitive structures and processes that enable people to learn and use language; how linguistic structure influences concept formation and patterns of thinking. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 506. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 309 - PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Credits: 3 Study of human and other animal communication. Includes the structure of human language, word meaning and semantic memory, psychological studies of syntax, bilingualism, language and thought, and language errors and disorders. Cross-list: PSYC 309. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 310 - MORPHOLOGY Credits: 3 Morphology is the study of word formation and the relationship between form, meaning, and syntax. This course is an introduction to morphological theory. Topics covered include approaches to word formation, morphological change, and morphological phenomena in diverse languages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 510. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 311 - INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY Credits: 3 Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets, and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Cross-list: ANTH 323. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 313 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits: 3 Investigation of the relation between language and thought, language and worldview, and language and logic. Cross-list: ANTH 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 513. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 314 - SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Credits: 3 This course surveys and critiques various theories of second language acquisition. Major topics are: analysis of linguistic, cognitive and social processes in the development of second languages, formal hypothesis of non-academic and classroom L2 learning, analysis of various SLA research methodologies and interpretation of findings from SLA research. Cross-list: SPAN 381. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 315 - INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS Credits: 3 Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics and related fields. Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Cross-list: PSYC 315, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 515. Recommended prerequisite: LING 200 or ANTH 200. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 318 - STRUCTURE OF FRENCH Credits: 3 The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological developments. Beyond the specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of any language. Taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 318. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 319 - STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN Credits: 3 Examination of the linguistic structure of Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR), including aspects of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Course is taught in English, but knowledge of Russian equivalent to completion of two semesters of college level language instruction is required; two years recommended. Cross-list: RUSS 319. Recommended Prerequisite(s): RUSS 202. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 320 - ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE Credits: 3 How did Human Language arise, and what role did language play in the evolution of our species? This course introduces the basic sources of evidence (e.g., fossil remains, comparative primatology, neonatal development) for knowledge of human linguistic prehistory, including the spread of modern humans and human language throughout the world. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 321 - STRUCTURE OF CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/lchen/Chin321/321home.html Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Chinese with special attention to contrastive analysis of selected topics of Chinese and English, including expressions of tense and aspect, conditional and counterfactual, word formation (morphology), the notion of syntactic category, grammaticalization, metaphor, Chinese writing system and sociolinguistics. Taught in English. Cross-list: CHIN 321. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 322 - LANGUAGE AND ETHINICITY Credits: 3 This course explores the role that ethnicity plays in various language varieties used in the U.S., and the role that language varieties play in ethnic identity. We examine this from both speech production and speech perception perspectives. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 325 - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Credits: 3 This course focuses on some of the central aspects of first language acquisition. Topics include statistical learning; the use of special kinds of input modification ('motherese') ; how children's grammatical, lexical-semantic, and phonological systems develop; the critical period hypothesis ; and language development in the absence of a conventional model ('home sign'). Cross-list: PSYC 325. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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LING 330 - CORPUS LINGUISTICS Credits: 3 Investigation of the nature of linguistic representations from corpus-based analyses as compared to more traditional methodologies. Includes the collection of individual text data (or the exploration of existing text sources), the use of various text analysis programs (e.g. concordance software), and the production of lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, or cultural analyses of selected texts, using computer-based methods. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 530. College: School of Humanities Department: Linguistics
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