Linguistics and Language Science

Catalog description

This course is designed to familiarize students interested in linguistic diversity and human-machine interaction with fundamental theories and approaches in linguistics and language science. This course presents key topics in linguistics, with emphasis on research techniques and interfaces with other scientific disciplines (e.g. engineering, information technology, computer science). The primary focus is on linguistic diversity across the life span, including within-language regional and social variation, bilingualism, and language disorders. The course targets practical applications such as natural language processing, machine learning, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice identification, corpus analysis, and machine translation.