Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation

1 Course Unit

This course provides students with the opportunity to hone their statistical, computational, and organizational skillsets while conducting original linguistic research on data gathered in continuing fieldwork in the speech community. Topics include forced alignment and vowel extraction, auditory and automated variable coding, the application of linear and logistic regression, and techniques for effective data visualization. Fall, odd numbered years only Prerequisite: LING 5660 OR STAT 5000 OR STAT 5010 1 Course Unit