Linguistics (LING) 1 LING 054 Bilingualism in History LINGUISTICS (LING) This course introduces the foundations of linguistics - the scientific study of language - through exploration of multilingualism in the USA LING 001 Introduction to Linguistics and in different societies around the world. Contacts between groups A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, of people speaking different languages are documented from earliest speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human records, and around the world it remains the norm to find more than one language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to language in regular use in a single community. In this course we will cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and see that multilingualism is a catalyst for linguistic change: sometimes meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic languages are lost; sometimes new languages are created; sometimes history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language the structure of a language is radically altered. We will consider: Which standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and parts of linguistic structure are most susceptible to change under adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and conditions of bilingualism? Does language contact - whether a result history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in of trade, education, migration, conquest, or intermarriage - influence language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction language structure in predictable ways? How do individual speakers for students who plan to major in linguistics. handle multiple languages? How have attitudes to speakers of multiple For BA Students: Natural Science and Math Sector languages changed through history? How have socio-historical events One-term course offered either term shaped the linguistic situation in the USA? Activity: Lecture Course not offered every year 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Seminar LING 051 Proto-Indo European Language and Society 1.0 Course Unit Most of the languages now spoken in Europe, along with some languages Notes: Freshman Seminar of Iran, India and central Asia, are thought to be descended from a single LING 058 Language and Social Identity language known as Proto-Indo-European, spoken at least six thousand Language is an important part of both human cognition as well as years ago, probably in a region extending from north of the Black Sea social organization. Our identities, our societies, and our cultures are in modern Ukraine east through southern Russia. Speakers of Proto- all informed by and how we use language. Language interacts with the Indo-European eventually populated Europe in the Bronze Age, and their social, political and economic power structures in crucial ways. This societies formed the basis of the classical civilizations of Greece and course will focus on the ways in which language and the social facts Rome, as well as of the Celtic, Germanic and Slavic speaking peoples. of life are dependent upon each other. In this course, we will examine What were the Proto-Indo-Europeans like? What did they believe about issues related to class, race, gender, culture and identity, as well as how the world and their gods? How do we know? Reconstruction of the language exists to both challenge and uphold systems of power. Proto-Indo-European language, one of the triumphs of comparative and Taught by: Holliday historical linguistics in the 19th and 20th centuries, allows us a glimpse Course usually offered in fall term into the society of this prehistoric people. In this seminar students will, Activity: Seminar through comparison of modern and ancient languages, learn the basis 1.0 Course Unit of this reconstruction -- the comparative method of historical linguistics LING 102 Introduction to Sociolinguistics -- as well as explore the culture and society of the Proto-Indo-Europeans Human language viewed from a social and historical perspective. and their immediate descendants. In addition, we will examine the Students will acquire the tools of linguistic analysis through interactive pseudo-scientific basis of the myth of Aryan supremacy, and study the computer programs, covering phonetics, phonology and morphology, in contributions of archaeological findings in determining the "homeland" English and other languages. These techniques will then be used to trace of the Indo-Europeans. No prior knowledge of any particular language is social differences in the use of language, and changing patterns of social necessary. This seminar should be of interest to students considering stratification. The course will focus on linguistic changes in progress in a major in linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, ancient history or American society, in both mainstream and minority communities, and comparative religion. (Also fulfills Cross-Cultural Analysis.) the social problems associated with them. Students will engage in field For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector projects to search for the social correlates of linguistic behavior, and use Taught by: Noyer quantitative methods to analyze the results. Course not offered every year For BA Students: Society Sector Activity: Seminar Taught by: Tamminga 1.0 Course Unit Course usually offered in spring term Notes: Freshman Seminar Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Notes: Satisfies Quantitative Data Analysis 2021-22 Catalog | Generated 08/18/21 2 Linguistics (LING) LING 103 Introduction to Language: Language Structure and Verbal Art LING 108 Talkin' Black: Language, Power & Identity The purpose of this course is to explore the relationship between Soda, pop, or cokes? Buggy or shopping cart? Y'all, Y'alls, y'all'd've, linguistic structure and the use of language for artistic purposes. y'all'd've'f'I'd've? Do you talk black, speak Appalachian - maybe both? The syllabus is organized as a sequence of units, each built around a Is your vernacular spectacular? Does anyone talk 'normal'? What does particular theme. These include the sound structure of poetry (meter, your accent say about you? We use language every day, but don't always rhyme, and other linguistic patterns in Jabberwocky, the Odyssey, take the time to stop and talk about the language we use. Language Shakespeare, the Troubadours, and others); how precise linguistic data can both be a powerful tool for communication, and also a means to can be used to solve an outstanding literary problem (determining the mock and disempower the 'other' (such as using the Southern accent approximate date when Beowulf was composed); and the structure of to portray stereotypes). It can be used to draw people in (I'm lookin folktales of various cultures and of narratives of everyday experience. at you, brotha, sista) and dividing (you ain't from around here, are For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector ya?) And, even if we share the exact same language - or think we do Taught by: Ringe - miscommunications still seem to abound. This course will bring a Course usually offered in fall term sociolinguistic perspective to language: how we use it, how we speak Activity: Lecture and write multiple versions of the same language, and how it reflects our 1.0 Course Unit identities, particularly with regards to race, class, gender, and regional LING 105 Introduction to Cognitive Science backgrounds. We will explore deep questions of language as a medium How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to of communication with consequences and impact in political, social, this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. and personal realms. In addition to producing a research paper, we The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational will also explore codeswitching and codemeshing techniques. This and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, course, open to majors and non-majors, will explore language in social decision making, emotion and consciousness. The course shows how interactions, both as a means for humans to inflict power, but also as a the different views from the parent disciplines interact and identifies site for deploying resistance. Language, at the intersections of power and some common themes among the theories that have been proposed. The identity, is not neutral. This sociolinguistic course will apply linguistic course pays particular attention to the distinctive role of computation principles to literary forms, to explore how Black novelists such as Toni in such theories and provides an introduction to some of the main Morrison, James Baldwin, Ken Saro-Wiwa, M. NourbeSe Philip, bell hooks, directions of current research in the field. It is a requirement for the BA in and others, incorporate their voices across the Black diaspora to explore Cognitive Science, the BAS in Computer and Cognitive Science, and the the ways that Black voices are expressed - or silenced - when accounting minor in Cognitive Science, and it is recommended for students taking for agency and power relations the dual degree in Computer and Cognitive Science. Taught by: Brooks For BA Students: Natural Science and Math Sector Course usually offered in spring term Course usually offered in fall term Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: CIS 140, COGS 001, PHIL 044, PSYC 207 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture LING 115 Writing Systems 1.0 Course Unit The historical origin of writing in Sumer,