Course Orientation (Can language be studied scientifically?)

Format of Learning Journals

Qs for Learning Journals

Topics for Oral Presentations & Term Papers

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? [Consonants])

Phonetics: The Sounds of Language (How do we articulate? [Vowels & Prosodic Features])

Linguistics and Language Disorder (Phonological Disorders, Language Analysis and Language Therapy)

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?)

(7) The words of language (PPT for Students)

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

Midterm Week

Language, Gender, and Cognition: Multifaceted Pragmatic Phenomena (1) Exploring gender-specific pragmatic phenomena through "Secret Garden" (2) Exploring how language reflects people's perspectives on the world through '"TENET"

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

Language and Brain (The Human Brain / Language and Brain Development)

Format of Final Reports

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!)

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

Language and Machine (Artificial Intelligence / Applications of Computational Linguistics)

Final Oral Report

Final Week **Final Written Report Due