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In this course, we ask the question: how can sign languages inform our understanding of grammar? Sign languages are, on a par with spoken languages, instantiations of universal grammar, but they use the visual-gestural modality. Investigating their properties can thus reveal aspects of grammar which remain unobservable in the oral signal, due to articulatory constraints and other limitations relative to the linearity of speech.

Introduction to the theory and practice of phonetics research, with emphasis on the relationships of phonetics to phonology. Extensive work in the phonetics laboratory. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 603.

This course is a one-semester introduction to linguistics as a branch of cognitive science. Linguistics has been at the heart of cognitive science since the 1950's, and it's often said that language provides a privileged window on the inner workings of the mind. Throughout this course, we ask what exactly we learn about the mind by studying language. We will examine two classic arguments from linguistics that have been taken as informative about the structure of the mind: the argument for mental grammar, and the argument for innate knowledge.

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