Methods for Corpus and Experimental Studies in Syntax and Semantics

3 credits · Graduate Programs

Introduction to programming methods for the development and searching of text corpora, as well as the design and implementation of studies using open source software. Study design will be introduced through critical reading of studies covering a range of syntactic and semantic phenomena. Programming skills to convert experiment software output into a format suitable for statistical analysis will also be covered. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the program. Antirequisite(s): Credit for Linguistics 671 and 699.07 (Python for Linguistics) will not be allowed. Note: Registration priority will be given to students in the Linguistics graduate program.