Upper-Division

Supervised experience with acoustic speech analysis equipment. Students learn to make and interpret waveforms, spectrograms, pitch tracks, etc., based on live or recorded speech. Some reading required.

Grounding in the physics and physiology of speech sounds: production, acoustics, and perception. Analysis of wave forms and spectrograms. The nature of phonetic processes and the application of phonetic studies of phonological investigations.

An introduction to the computer simulation of the process of natural language understanding, one of the most significant new applications of linguistics. Concentrates on syntactic processing; parsing, representation of lexical information, and knowledge representation.

Introduction to computer simulation of phonological and morphological knowledge. Intended for linguistics and computer science majors having an interest in natural language analysis.

The phonology, morphology, and syntax of Irish, along with a consideration of its current sociopolitical situation. No knowledge of Irish required. Prerequisite(s): course 101, and course 111 or 112. Enrollment by permission of instructor.

Deadline for submission of project proposal is one year in advance of proposed completion. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students write one squib (one to ten pages) per week except for weeks three and seven, when they write two squibs. A selection of the squibs is presented in class; one or two will be rewritten.