EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing and satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A, or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning Comm QR - Quantitative Reasoning B Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss theoretical and methodological issues in current syntactic research Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain fundamentals of linguistic experiment design Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Design linguistic experiments to address theory-driven research questions and testable hypotheses Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Use Excel to enter, code, and format linguistic data and R (statistical software) for data analysis Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply statistical skills to analyzing linguistic data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Communicate effectively through class discussions and presentations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Write a clear and coherent research report on a linguistic experiment Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss theoretical and methodological issues in current syntactic research Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain fundamentals of linguistic experiment design Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Design linguistic experiments to address theory-driven research questions and testable hypotheses Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Use Excel to enter, code, and format linguistic data and R (statistical software) for data analysis Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply statistical skills to analyzing linguistic data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Communicate effectively through class discussions and presentations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Write a clear and coherent research report on a linguistic experiment Audience: Graduate