Details about a selection of courses that the Department of Linguistics offers.
LIN 105B: Sign Language Linguistics
An exploration of topics in linguistics of signed languages, including clinical aspects of hearing loss, sociolinguistics in Deaf communities, and linguistic models of signed languages. Prior ASL knowledge is welcomed but not required.
LIN 161: Global Sociolinguistics
An overview of the interconnections between language variation and social processes in a wide range of contexts.
LIN 205: Computational Psycholinguistics
A growing consensus sees language processing, as well as cognition more broadly, as a probabilistic process that follows principles of rational inference.