Statistical Analysis in Linguistics

Catalog description

Given the availability of high quality courses that are now available online for learning statistics and Python, the experimental and computational faculty in the linguistics department makes use of these materials to ensure that students have a sufficient foundation for statistical analysis of experimental results and programming for computational modeling. Since students come in with various backgrounds, and it is difficult to design courses that are appropriate for everyone, these options outlined below will be offered as the starting point for statistics and programming requirements in the department. These courses allow for some amount of customization and for different credit amounts depending on what option is chosen. The foundations that are developed from these courses will be expanded on in more specialized linguistics courses (whether computational or experimental) and in students’ research projects that they will develop in conjunction with their adviser(s).