Course Orientation

Holiday

What is Language? (Linguistic Knowledge / What is Grammar / Language Universals / The Origin of Language / Language and Thought / What We Know about Human Language)

Phonetics: The Sounds of Language (How do we articulate?)

Assignment - Answer

Understanding Sociolinguistics from "My Fair Lady" (You sound like you come from high society!)

Morphology: The Words of language (How do popular slang, internet memes, and current event jokes come about?)

Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language (Do languages other than English have grammar?)

Semantics: The Meaning of Language (Discussing Pragmatics through "Extraordinary Attorney Woo": The pragmatic phenomena of people with traits of Autism Spectrum Disorder)

Midterm Exam

(1) Midterm Exam Review (2) Language and Brain (The Human Brain / Language and Brain Development)

Language Acquisition (The Theory of Language Acquisition / Stages in Language Acquisition / Grammar Acquisition)

Understanding Language Analysis from "Arrival" (You also have the ability to analyze alien languages!)

(1) Linguistics and Language Disorder (The Practice of Language Analysis and Language Therapy) (2) *Oral Presentation* -- Analysis of Speech Data from Children with Speech Disorders

Human Language Processing (Comprehension / Acoustic Phonetics / Syntactic Processing / Speech Production)

(1) Language and Machine (Speech Synthesis / Artificial Intelligence / Applications of computational Linguistics) (2) *Oral Presentation* -- Applications of ChatGPT

(1) Language and Gender (Exploring Gender-Specific Pragmatic Phenomena through "Secret Garden") (2) *Oral Presentation* -- Characteristics of Dialogues in All-Male and All-Female Groups

Language and Cognition (Discussing How People Can Travel to the Past and Return to the Future through '"Tenet")

Final Term Paper