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- Instructor(s)
- Yamamoto Hilofumi
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Wed9-10(W932)
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- Course number
- LAH.A551
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2019
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2019/8/5
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- English
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Course description and aims
This course will provide lectures and exercises focusing on the word order of the world language and syntactic functions of the communication.
The course will deal with issues in linguistic theory, generative transformation grammar, cognitive linguistics, and applied linguistics that could not be dealt with.
Based on the current situations and conditions of language use, we will discuss the language acquisition, situational and functional use of language, the practical language teaching methods, and the analyses of language skills as well.
Through these lectures and exercises, we will cultivate the insight and consideration of the language as scientific and engineering aspects.
Student learning outcomes
Find current linguistics problems, improvement of research methods, and future linguistics direction.
Keywords
Creation of a new academic domain, language, and computation, language quantization, relationship between language and mathematics/physics
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
We will divide students into small groups, and progress with exercise questions.
Analyze languages according to themes decided by themselves, and perform poster presentations.
Also, comment on poster presentation of other students.
Submit the contents of the poster presentation as a report.
Create exam questions from textbooks and submit.
Interview the exam questions by oral exam and fail if they can not answer.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | How to proceed to the class, explanation of the final task | Chi-square test for word frequency analysis. Choose the theme of language analysis assignment that matches your interest, and make the research question. |
| Class 2 | Prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar | Learn about the differences between prescriptive and descriptive grammar, and choose one of the topics which are not uncovered. |
| Class 3 | Principle of language generation and its calculation | Consider the connections between generative grammar theory and language processing theory. |
| Class 4 | Mathematical Linguistics | Consider the similarities between mathematical linguistics and natural language processing and their respective goals. |
| Class 5 | Unsolved linguistic problems | Think about linguistically unresolved issues and treat it as the subject of writing a paper. |
| Class 6 | Philosophy for language research | Think about language and philosophy. |
| Class 7 | Conference and examination | Create a test question and consider whether it holds as a question. Poster presentation according to the research theme. |
| Class 8 | Summary and the methods of final paper submission | Create a dissertation based on the comments and questions of the presentation. |
Textbook(s)
Linguistics For Dummies®
Published by John Wiley and Sons Canada, Ltd.
6045 Freemont Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario, L5R 4J3
Reference books, course materials, etc.
We distribute task sheets in PDF every time and ask you for a mobile terminal or PC.
Assessment criteria and methods
You must attend all of the lectures.
Each task and submission of the final examination and essays are mandatory and should be evaluated according to the content.
It is desirable to have taken any of the credits of Linguistics A, B, C.
Related courses
- LAH.T109 ： Linguistics A
- LAH.T210 ： Linguistics B
- LAH.T309 ： Linguistics C
- LAH.A411 ： Linguistics D
- LAH.H109 ： Special Lecture : Language and Culture
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
English discussion is required.
It is desirable to have taken Linguistics A, B, and C.
All assignments/submissions such as attendance, poster presentation, discussion, preparation of examination questions which you must create properly are mandatory.
The final examination is an oral examination.
If you can not answer the exam questions, even if you submit all of the assignments, you will fail, so be careful.
Students who are not motivated to discuss during class are rejected on the spot or canceled.
Students who are not good at discussions are not suitable for this lesson, so I recommend other subjects.
