R for Linguists

5 credits

Introduction to the R programming language and environment for character processing, validation, summarization, and visualization of linguistic data. Students learn to work with different datatypes (numeric, character strings, geographic information, lists). Students produce scripts of utility to researchers in different linguistic subfields (including corpus linguistics, phonetics, sociolinguistics, syntax). Prerequisite: LING 200 or LING 400; recommended: An introductory linguistics course.