Natural Language

[Updated 9/18/2009]

Six courses, drawn from at least three, and not more than four, of the following six areas.

1. Mathematical/computational foundations. Introduction to Automata and Complexity Theory (CS 154) [if not taken for the core], Rational Agency and Intelligent Interaction (CS 222/Phil 358), Machine Learning (CS 229), Modal Logic (Phil 154).
2. Computational linguistics. Natural Language Processing (CS 224N/Linguist 280), Text Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276/Linguist 286), Introduction to Computer Speech and Language Processing (CS 124/Linguist 180) [if not taken for the core], Speech Recognition and Synthesis (CS 224S/Linguist 285), Grammar Engineering (Linguist 181/281), Human and Machine Translation (Linguist 182/282), Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U/Linguist 188/288).
3. Phonetics/phonlogy/speech. Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Linguist 110), Phonetics (Linguist 105), Advanced Phonetics (Linguist 205B).
4. Morphosyntax. Morphology (Linguist 116), Introduction to Formal Universal Grammar (Linguist 124A/224A), Foundations of English Grammar (Linguist 221A), Studies in Universal Grammar (Linguist 221B), Foundations of Syntactic Theory I (Linguist 222A), Advanced Topics in Lexical Functional Grammar (Linguist 224B).
5. Semantics/pragmatics/philosophy of language. Introduction to Linguistic Meaning (Linguist 130A) or Introduction to Lexical Semantics (Linguist 130B) [if not taken for the core], Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (Linguist 230A) [if not taken for the core], Semantics and Pragmatics (Linguist 230B), Lexical Semantics (Linguist 232A), Philosophy of Language (Phil 181) [if not taken for the core].
6. Psycholinguistics. Language and Thought (Psych 131/262) [if not taken for the core], Seminar on Language and Deception (Psych 134), Language Acquisition I (Linguist 140/240) [if not taken for the core], Language Acquisition II (Linguist 241), Seminar in Psycholinguistics (Linguist 247/Psych 227).