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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here. LIN100Y1 Lectures on fundamental principles with illustrations from English and from a broad spectrum of other languages. Practice in elementary analytic techniques. LIN200H1 A general-interest course on language. Possible topics include: the structure of language; how language changes over time, the social and psychological aspects of language, language and culture, the origin of language, writing systems, and language acquisition. (This course cannot be used as an entrance to programs in linguistics, and cannot be used be used as a Prerequisite to any linguistics courses unless otherwise indicated.) LIN201H1 A study of English spoken in Canada. Topics include: vocabulary items, usage surveys, non-standard dialect enclaves, regional variation and historical development. Students will develop original research projects. (Not offered every year) LIN203H1 English has a rich vocabulary. We will learn how it has developed over time, and investigate aspects of the meaning and pronunciation of words. Most of all, we will study how words are put together, so that students will be able to recognize and analyze unfamiliar words. LIN204H1 How the English language works: students analyze a wide variety of English grammatical structures and learn how LIN205H1 The course is a linguistic exploration of issues that arise as English comes into contact with three major East Asian Languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Topics include a comparative introduction to the basic structures of the languages, writing systems, transformations English words undergo when borrowed into these Asian languages, and typical mistakes made by ESL speakers of East Asian linguistic background. LIN228H1 Investigation of the sounds most commonly used in languages from an articulatory and acoustic point of view, with practice in their recognition and production. Students will learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and practice transcribing a wide variety of speech sounds. LIN229H1 The nature and organization of phonological systems, with practical work in analysis. LIN232H1 The nature and organization of syntactic systems; their relation to semantic systems and the linguistic organization of discourse; practical work in analysis. LIN241H1 An introduction to meaning within linguistics and the interpretation of language in context. Topics include logical and semantic relations, pragmatic concepts such as presupposition and implicature, the nature of thematic roles, quantifiers and scope relations, the expressions of temporal and modal relations in natural language. LIN299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. LIN305H1 Principles of research design, data collection, and a wide variety of statistical techniques for research in various subfields of linguistics. LIN306H1 This course examines cross-linguistic typological features found in the languages of the world. Special attention is given to describing morphological and syntactic patterns found cross-linguistically. The goal of the course is to draw on the range of variation in order to uncover language JLP315H1 Infants’ abilities at birth, prelinguistic development, the first words, phonological, syntactic and semantic development. Social variables influencing development of language, bilingualism, models of development, language play. (Given by the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology) LIN322H1 Basic issues in current phonological theory. Problems focusing on analysis and theory. (Students who want to pursue graduate studies in linguistics are strongly advised to include this course in their program.) LIN323H1 Introduction to the acoustics of the vocal tract, including acoustic properties of speech and its analysis using instrumental techniques. JAL328H1 Introduction to writing systems: their historical development, their relationship to language, and their role in culture and society. (Given by the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics) LIN331H1 An introduction to the foundations and formal framework of current generative grammar, concentrating on Chomsky’s Minimalist theory. (Students who want to pursue graduate studies in linguistics are strongly advised to include this course in their program.) LIN333H1 The nature and organization of morphological systems, with practical work in analysis. LIN341H1 The study of natural language semantics and the relation between interpretation and syntactic structure. Topics include predication and quantification, scope and anaphora, problems of discourse analysis, the interpretation of different types of pronouns, and ellipsis. LIN351H1 An introduction to linguistic variation and its social implications, especially the quantitative study of phonological and grammatical features and their correlations with age, sex, ethnicity, and other social variables. JAL353H1 An introduction to the detailed observation of ordinary conversational interaction, and to some of the main ways in which such interaction is organized. The focus is on developing the capacity to discern orderliness in the details of everyday interaction, and beginning independent research in this area. JAL355H1 Ways in which women and men differ in their use of language and in their behaviour in conversational interaction; ways in which language reflects cultural beliefs about women and men. (Given by the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics) LIN362H1 An introduction to diachronic linguistics. Theories of language change; the comparative method, internal reconstruction, linguistic geography, the origin of languages; language death. (Not offered every year) JLP374H1 Experimental approaches to the comprehension and production of languages. Topics include perception of speech sounds, storage and retrieval of words from the mental lexicon, processing of grammatical information, discourse comprehension and memory, models of language production, and the role of cognitive and perceptual systems. (Given by the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology) LIN398H0 LIN399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. JAL401H1 Practice in language analysis based on elicited data from a native speaker of a foreign language, emphasizing procedures and techniques. (Given by the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics) (Students who want to pursue graduate studies in linguistics are strongly advised to include this course in their program.) LIN409H1 Topics may include: the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems; the writing system; a brief diachronic sketch; variation and sociolinguistic aspects. (Not offered every year). LIN423H1 Theoretical discussion of the acoustic correlates of various types of sounds found in language. Practical experience in the acoustic analysis of speech. (Not offered every year) LIN432H1 Current research involving morphology, including the role of morphology in the grammar, the nature of inflectional paradigms, affixes affecting grammatical relations. Each year one topic will be a special focus and will be dealt with at length. (Not offered every year) LIN451H1 Ways in which urban sub-cultures differ in their use of language. How speakers’ dialects reflect their ethnicity, group affiliation, and other social categories. Practice in dialect analysis based on data from the speech community, emphasizing procedures and techniques. LIN456H1 The theory and practice of sociolinguistics. The inter-relationship between language and society from the perspective of collecting, organizing, and analyzing patterns in natural speech data, including field methods and quantitative methods for correlating linguistic and social variables. LIN458H1 A study of language endangerment and language revitalization efforts, focusing on Aboriginal languages of Canada. Topics include language classification and a survey of major features of the languages, what it means for a language to be endangered, the factors that contribute to language shift, and efforts to reverse language shift, including discussion of literacy and dictionaries. JLP471H1 Seminar in advanced topics in psycholinguistics. Content will vary from year to year. (Given by the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology) (Not offered every year) JLS474H1 Normal and deviant development of speech and language; a survey of the disorders of human communication; an overview of intervention for disorders of speech, voice, language, swallowing and hearing; the effects of human communication handicaps on the individual, family, and community; theoretical and philosophical aspects of disordered communication. (Given by the Departments of Linguistics and Speech Pathology) JFL477H1 An advanced seminar on issues of current theoretical relevance in linguistics with special reference to French. This course is taught in English. (Not offered every year). JFL478H1 An advanced seminar on issues of current theoretical relevance in linguistics with special reference to French. This course is taught in English. (Not offered every year). LIN479H1 An advanced seminar in current issues of theoretical relevance. LIN481H1 Argumentation, practice in constructing and evaluating hypotheses, and critical evaluation of representative articles. Emphasis on the structure of arguments rather than on the analysis of a particular language. LIN495Y1 LIN497Y1 A research or reading project undertaken by the student under the supervision of a staff member. Open only when a faculty member is willing and available to supervise. LIN496H1 LIN498H1 LIN499H1 A research or reading project undertaken by the student under the supervision of a staff member. Open only when a faculty member is willing and available to supervise. |