LINGUIST*9500Q/**9501Q - GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR - Dr. Rob Stainton
Start Date: September, XX 2015;
Time & location:TBA
(0.25 credit);
*LINGUIST9500Q: Course number reserved for 2nd year MA students only
**LINGUIST9501Q:Course Number reserved for 1st year MA students only
Course outline
A seminar for all students in the Linguistics M.A. program. Its objectives are: orientation to the program, its faculty and the larger University; development of professional and scholarly skills; and increased familiarity with various linguistic methodologies. It encompasses four kinds of classes. There are orientation classes to make students aware of the resources available to them across the campus: e.g., libraries, data bases, writing tutors. There will also be talks by faculty members, both to make students aware of the kind of research being done at Western, and to help them identify a potential supervisor for their Research Paper. These talks will also afford a survey of numerous research methodologies within linguistics. There will be workshop classes on professional skills such as: creating and maintaining an academic CV; drafting grant proposals and ethics protocols; compiling and formatting a bibliography; preparing abstracts and posters; applying to doctoral or professional programs; etc. Finally, second year students will be given an opportunity to practice presenting their work to a scholarly audience – whether it be a draft of their prospectus, a paper to be submitted for a conference, or what-have-you. Half course; one term.
LINGUIST9XXXA - Phonology - Dr. David Heap
Start Date: September 2015
Time & location: TBA
LINGUIST9XXXB - Dialectology - Dr. Jeff Tennant
Start Date: January 2016
Time & location: TBA
LINGUIST9XXX - Bilingualism - Dr. Debra Jared
Start Date:
Time & location: TBA
LINGUIST9xxxB/SP9xxxB - The Nominal Phrase : syntax, morphology and acquisition- Dr. Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Start Date:January 2016
Time & location: TBA
We will use the noun phrase to explore the nature of grammatical structure. In particular, we will examine differences and similarities between several languages, including English, French and Spanish. Furthermore, we will look at how linguistic explanations can be applied to our understanding of acquisition both of primary language(s) and second language(s). In accordance with the ongoing dialogue that characterizes linguistics we will focus on problems and questions and the issuing debates.
Taught in English
Specific objectives:
We expect to research the structure and acquisition of:
-The nominal phrase in comparison with the verbal phrase
-Word order in nominal phrases
-The difference between complements and adjuncts
-Gender and number
-Determiners
-Clitics
(Tentative reading list)
Books
Alexiadou, A., Haegeman, L. & M. Stavrou (2007). Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective. Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter.
Eguren, L. & Fernández Soriano, O. (2004). Introducción a una sintaxis minimista. Madrid: Gredos.
Radford, Andrew. 2004. Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zagona, Karen. 2002. The syntax of Spanish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Anderson, B. (2008). "Forms of evidence and grammatical development in the acquisition of adjective position in L2 French." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30: 1-29.
Antón-Méndez, M. I., J. L. Nicol & M. F. Garrett. (2002). "The relation between gender and number agreement processing." Syntax 5(1): 1-25.
Barber, H. and M. Carreiras (2005). "Grammatical gender and number agreement in Spanish: An ERP comparison." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17(1): 137-153.
Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. & P. Prévost (2015). Relative Clauses in L2 Spanish. SSLA
LINGUIST9xxxB/SPxxxB-Bilingualism, language contact and language change- Dr. Silvia Perpiñan
Start Date:January 2016
Time & location: Tuesdays 2:30-5:30 room: TBA
This seminar explores in depth the outcomes of bilingualism and second language acquisition in language contact situations. We will see how languages interact depending on the social settings, the distance between languages, or the cognitive constraints of the speakers. We will discuss whether these outcomes can lead to language change.
LINGUIST9XXX - Second Language speech learning in context - Dr. Yasaman Rafat
Start Date: TBA
Time & location: TBA
