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LING 499

Special Topics in Linguistics

3 units

Winter 2024

Readings

  • Gibbs, R. W., & Colston, H. L. (Eds.). (2007). Irony in language and thought: A cognitive science reader. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor & Francis Group
    required
Fall 2023

Topics

  • measurements (Experimental) approaches to researching
  • prosody – Praat demo on selecting items
  • Modelling prosody – Annotating prosody Student-led presentations and discussion
  • plus supplementary lectures, on topics such as:
  • Pragmatics & Information structure - Language variation (typology)
  • Sign language prosody - Discourse structuring - Emotions & Attitudes
  • Acquisition - Neurolinguistics, Impairments &
  • Disorders - Segmenting sounds - Manipulating of f0 and duration - Using scripts
  • Other topics as needed
  • Research project presentations
  • supplementary lecture Research project: Final written reports due
  • Language variation (typology)
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