Advanced, intensive work on specific phonological problems, or on the phonology of a single language or small group of languages. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 603, 606.
Theoretical foundations and methodology of the study of child language. Relationship between language acquisition, study of universal grammar, and theoretical psychology. Experimental term project customary. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 601.
Language varies across utterances spoken by an individual, across individuals in a speech community, and across varieties of a language. This course studies the implications of variation for our understanding of linguistic grammar and models proposed to account for variation.