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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Office of
the Vice-President, Academic
MEMORANDUM
To: ?
Senate ?
From: ?
J. M. Munro
Chair, Senate Committee
on Academic Planning
Subject: ?
Department of Linguistics -
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Date ?
June 15, 1992
Changes to Graduate Programs
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate Committee on
Academic Planning (SCAP 92 - 28) gives rise to the following motion:
Motion: ?
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.92 - 48, the changes to the graduate programs in the
Department of Linguistics including the following new courses:
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LING 809-4
Morphology
LING 820-4
Formal Linguistics
LING 821 -4
Phonetics
LING 896 -4
Directed Research
LING 897-4
Research Seminar."
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PROPOSED CHANGES
From: MA Program
Credit and Research Requirements
Students must select 16 of the total of 20 credit hours from
the series LING 800 through 808. All students are further
required to take an additional course on an S/U basis, to
be chosen by the student and Supervisory Committee.
To: MA Program
Credit and Research Requirements
a.
Course Work
Students must complete at least 20 credit hours of course work
in Linguistics, including LING 800 and LING 801.
Rationale:
The Department aims to standardize its M.A. requirements, and
ensure that all students take courses in the core areas of Phonology
and Syntax. Furthermore, we find that our students are taking a
sufficient number of variety of courses, so that the requirement of
an
additional course on an S/li basis is uperfecous.uFeL..
New Section
b.
Thesis
All students in the program must complete an M.A. thesis
based on original research. Students must comp1yi the
university regulations on completing and defending the thesis.
Rationale:
This requirement is already stated in the overview of requirements
for degrees in Languages and Linguistics. We repeat this in the entry
specifically dealing with Linguistics for clarification.
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From: PhD Program
Credit and Research Requirements
Candidates will complete a program of courses consisting of at least
16 credit hours, with the approval of the Supervisory committee.
When the Supervisory Committee is satisfied that the student is
adequately prepared, the student will proceed to the comprehensive
examination and dissertation as laid down under the program
requirements above.
To: PhD Program
Credit and Research Requirements
a.
Course Work
Students complete at least
16 credit hours of Linguistics
courses, approved by the Supervisory Committee.
b.
Thesis Proposal
Each candidate is required to develop a Research Proposal for a
thesis based on original research. The proposal will define the
intended research and the relationship between it and existing
scholarship. The proposal will be presented to the Supervisory
Committee for approval and presented as a colloquium.
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PhD Thesis
Students must complete the thesis in accordance with
University Regulations.
Rationale:
We have felt the need in our department to have more input into our
students' theses at an earlier stage of preparation. Thus, we will
require our students to present a thesis proposal. The thesis
proposal has two components. First, it will require the students to
prepare a detailed review of previous research on a specific topic.
This function is currently met by a comprehensive examination,
which is rendered redundant by the thesis proposal. Second, the
thesis proposal outlines the original research to be undertaken by
the student and presents a partial analysis or pilot study on the
topic.
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LING 801-4 Morphology and Syntax
To:
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LING.801-4 Syntax
LING.809-4 Morphology (New Course)
(see attached course proposals)
Rationale:
There is insufficient time to appropriately cover both areas in a
single course.
New Courses:
LING.820-4 Formal Linguistics
LING.821-4 Phonetics
LING 896-4 Directed Research
LING 897-4 Research Seminar
(See attached New Course Proposal
Rationale:
We seek to offer more courses in two central areas of Linguistics-
phonetics and morphology. As part of the department's focus on
Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics, we plan to regularly
offer a course on Formal Linguistics. Finally, we wish to have two
on-going courses providing for Independent Study and a forum to
discuss research (the latter to be taken on an S/U basis). We note
that most departments in the faculty already have such courses
included in their offerings.
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Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1.
Calendar Information ?
Department: Linguistics
Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number: 801
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Credit Hours: 4 Vector: 0/4/0
Title of Course: Syntax
Calendar Description of Course: Current approaches to syntactic theory.
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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None
2.
Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment:
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Four
How frequently will the course be offered? Once a year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Currently existing.
3.
Justification:
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Title change from Morphology and Syntax to simply Syntax.
Morphology is to be covered in a separate course, LING 809 (see
attached).
4.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
DeArmond, Gerdts
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details): Yes there are.
S. Appended: ?
a) ?
Outline of the Course:
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course:
c)
Library resources:
Approval:
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Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1. Calendar Information
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Department: Linguistics
Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number:
809 ?
Credit Hours: 4 Vector :0/4/0
Title of Course: Morphology
Calendar Description of Course: Advanced topics in morphological theory.
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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LING 423
2.
Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment: ?
Four
How frequently will the course be offered? Once Every Other Year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall 1992
3.
Justification: ?
This course separates Morphology from Syntax which are currently
both covered in LING 801. Neither morphology nor syntax
can
be
adequately covered when combined in a single graduate course.
4. Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course: DeArmond, Gerdts, Lincoln,
McFetridge
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are
there sufficient Library resources (append details): Yes there are.
S. Appended: ?
a)
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Outline
of the Course:
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course:
c)
Library resources:
Approval:
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Linguistics 809
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Course Outline?
Department of Linguistics
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Fall 1993
Course Chairman: ?
Dr. Richard C. DeArmond
Office: ?
CC 8300
Phone: ?
3545
Course Description: Linguistics 809 is an advanced course covering morphology. The
course will cover advanced topics of morphology such as non-linear
approaches to morphology, level ordering, constituent structure of
words, syntactic affixation, grammatical relations, compounds,
clitics, the word, and the place of morphology in grammar.
Course Textbooks:
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Morphological Theory
by Andrew Spencer. (Basil Blackwell, Ltd.,
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1991; Oxford and Cambridge, MA).
Morphology,
by J. Jensen ((Benjamins, 1978; Mastered).
Morphology: the descriptive Analysis
of
Words,
by E. Nida. (Uni-
versity of Michigan Press, 1949; Ann Arbor).
The Syntax
of
Words,
by E. Selkirk. (MIT Press, 1986; Cambridge).
Structure of Course: ?
The course will be combined with L423. Three hours will overlap
with 423, and one hour will be devoted to advanced topics. There
will be one mid term exam and one final paper. The topic of the pa-
per will be selected through consultation.
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Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1. Calendar Information ?
Department: Linguistics
Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number: 820 ?
Credit Hours: 4 Vector: 0/4/0
Title of Course:
Formal Linguistics
Calendar Description of Course: ?
Formal systems and their relation to linguistic methods
and theory.
Prerequisites (or special instructions): ?
None
2. Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment: ?
Four
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once Every Other Year
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
Spring 149
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3.
Justification:
This course is to commplement LING 400, an undergraduate course on the
same topic.
4.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
Hedberg, McFetridge
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
Yes there are.
5.
Appended: ?
a) ?
Outline of the Course:
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course:
c)
Library resources:
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DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Introduction
Linguistics 820-4
to Formal
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Linguistics
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Course Chair:
Course Description:
This course provides the mathematical background for modem linguistics work in syntax, semantics and
general computational linguistics. It introduces set theory, including finite and infinite sets, theory of rela-
tions and functions, formal logic including the propositional and predicate calculi, formal language and au-
tomata theory. Exercises are designed to develop basic skills and offer an entry to linguistic applications of
mathematical concepts.
Textbook:
Barbara H. Partee, Alice ter Meulen, Robert E. Wall.
Mathematical Methods in Linguistics.
Course Requirements
Students are expected to complete 4 assignments and 2 take-home examinations.
Bibliography
Barwise, J. and Etchemendy, J.
Tarsid's World. A
program for learning predicate logic on the Macintosh computer.
Chomsky, N. (1957).
Syntactic Structures.
Mouton: The Hague.
Chomsky, N. (1965).
Aspects of
the Theory
of
Syntax.
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
Chomsky, N. (1981).
Lectures on Government and Binding.
Dordrecht. Foris.
Copi, I.
(1965) Symbolic Logic.
New York: Macmillan.
Cresswell, M. (1973)
Logic and Languages.
London: Methuen.
Cresswell, M. (19850
Structured Meanings.
Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Dowty, D. Wall, R. and Peters. S. (1981)
An Introduction to Montague Semantics.
Dordrecht Reidel.
Dowty, D. R., Karuunen, L. and Zwicky, A. (eds.) (1985).
Natural Language Processing: Theoretical, Computational
and Psychological Perspectives.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fraenkel, A. and Bar-Hillel, Y. (1973).
Foundations of Set Theory.
Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Gamut, L.T.F. (1991)
Logic, Language and Meaning. Vol.1 Introduction to Logic.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press.
Gamut, L.T.F. (1991)
Logic, Language and Meaning. Vol.2 Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar.
Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.
Grdenfors, P. (ed). (1987)
Generalized Quantifiers. Linguistics and Logical Approaches.
Dordrecht Reidel.
Gazdar, G. and Pullum, G. K. (1985). "Computationally relevant properties of natural languages and their grammars."
New Generation Computing.
Vol. 3: pp. 273-306.
Gazdar, 0., Klein, E., Pullum, G. and Sag, I. (1985).
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Gazdar, G. (1987). "Linguistic applications of default inheritance mechanisms."
Linguistic Theory & Computer Ap-
plications.
Ed. M. W. Peter Whitelock Harold L. Somers, Rod L. Johnson and Paul Bennett. London: Academic
Press,
pp.
37-67.
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GaZdar,
G.
(1988). "Applicability of indexed grammars to natural languages."
Natural Language Parsing and Linguis-
tic Theories.
Ed. U. R. a. C. Rohrer. Dordrecht D. Reidel,
pp.
69-94.
Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C. S. (1987). "Computational linguistics."
New Horizons in Linguistics II.
Ed. R. A. C. John
Lyons Margaret Deuchar and Gerald Gazdar. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
pp.
225-248.
Hoperoft, J. and Ullman, J. (1979)
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation.
Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Keenan, E. and Faltz, L. (1985)
Boolean Semantics for Natural Language.
Dordrecht Reidel.
Manaster-Rainer, A. (1987).
Mathematics of
Language.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Manaster-Ramer, A. and Kac, M. (1990). "The concept of phrase structure."
Linguistics and Philosophy. Vol. 13: pp.
325-362.
Montague, R.
Formal Philosophy.
R.H. Thompson. (ed.) New Haven: Yale University Press.
Oehrle, R., Bach, E. and Wheeler, D. (1988).
Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures.
Dordrecht: Rei-
deL
Savitch, W., Bach, E., Marsh, W. and Safran-Naveh. (1987).
The Formal Complexity of
Natural Languages.
Dordrecht
Reidel.
Shieber, S. (1985) "Evidence against the context-freeness of natural language",
Linguistics andPhilosophy,
vol.8, pp.
333-343.
Shieber, S. (1986). An Introduction to Unification-Based Approaches to Grammar.
Stanford: Center for the Study of
Language and Information.
Shieber, S. M. (1987). "Separating linguistic analyses from linguistic theories."
Linguistic Theory & CompuzerAppli-
cations.
Ed. M. W. Peter Whitelock Harold L. Somers, Rod L. Johnson and Paul Bennett. London: Academic
Press,
pp.
1-36.
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Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1.
Calendar Information
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Department: Linguistics
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Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number: 821
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Credit Hours: 4 Vector: 0/4/0
Title of Course:
Phonetics
Calendar Description of Course:
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Critical comparative presentation of various
approaches to and techniques of phonetics.
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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None
2.
Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment: ?
Four
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once Every Other Year
Semester in which the course
will
first be offered?
Spring 1992 I
3.
Justification:
Several phonetics courses have been offered under the Topics series.
There is a clear demand from students for a regular graduate course in phonetics. The
absence of such a course is conspicuous.
4.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
Roberts
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
Yes there are.
5.
Appended: ?
a) ?
Outline of the Course:
b) ?
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course:
C)
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Library resources:
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GRADUATE COURSE OUTLINE. SEM. 199X.
*LINGUISTICS 821-4
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PHONETICS.
Course Instructor:
Prof. E. Wyn Roberts
Time:
Office:
CC8304: Telephone (291-)3678
Course Description:
Fundamentals of anatomy-physiology, and of acoustics. The types and
significance of instrumental and experimental work in phonetics.
Critical overview of alternative phonetic modes of analysis and theories -
physiological, aerodynamic. auditory-perceptual, acoustic. The issue of
correlation of physiological, aerodynamic. auditory-perceptual, acoustic
analyses. The relationship of phonetics to phonology in particular and to
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linguistics in general. Specific issues: traditional segmentation and
classification, related to linear vs. so-called "non-linear" (multiplanar)
approaches in phonology. Prosodic features including pitch, tone/ intonation,
rhythm (stress, accent, timing, syllable, foot, etc.), etc.) Relation of prosodic
features to phonology and grammar.
Required Texts:
Catford, J
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C. (1977)
Fundamental Problems in Phonetics.,
Edinburgh
University Press, Edinburgh.
Danioff, Raymond,
et al.
(1980)
The Physiology of Speech and Hearing: An
Introduction.,
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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Ladefoged, P. (1962)
Elements of Acoustics Phonetics.,
University of Chicago
Press, Chicago.
Course Grading:
Term Paper on a topic to be selected through consultation.
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SAMPLE WEEK-BY-WEEK BREAKDOWN.
WEEK
1.
Introduction- "definition" of Phonetics. Various approaches.
WEEK 2.
Phonetics as the study of human physiological behaviour. The establishment of the Phonetic
System.
WEEK 3.
Specific Instrumental Phonetics - Acoustic vs. Physiological. The issue of CORRELATION.
Impressionistic Phonetics - Ear- and Eye-training. Spectrographic analysis (Lab work.).
WEEK 4.
Spectrographic analysis (Lab work.). Continuation.
WEEK 5.
Continuation.
WEEK 6.
Continuation. Variability in so-called "phonetic systems" /charts. Understanding the
reasons. Empiricism in Phonetics - and hence in Linguistics (Phonology). Phoneticians'
lethargy - and the Redundancy Myth. Lethe, Myth, and Theory - the Q -roles of Phonetics!
WEEK 7.
The questions of Methodology and Theory, Universalism, Naturalism, etc..
Consonants and Vowels - the various "systems". "articulatory" vs. "auditory"/ "acoustic"
primacy in Phonetic Classification. CORRELATION again.
WEEK 8.
Continuation.
WEEK 9.
The nature of phonetic-linguistic characterisation. What is the relationship of Phonetics and
Linguistics?
WEEK 10.
Continuation. The nature of "data" in Phonetics and Linguistics.
WEEK 11.
Linguistic levels (Phonology, Syntax, etc.) and Phonetics. Pitch and Intonation in particular.
WEEK 12.
Continuation.
WEEK 13.
Epilogue-Prologue.
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Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1. Calendar Information ?
Department: Linguistics
Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number: 896
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Credit Hours: 4 Vector:
Title of Course: Directed Research
Calendar Description of Course: Supervised research on specialized topics.
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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None
2. Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment: ?
Variable
How frequently will the course be offered? Every semester;; offered by arragnement.
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall 1992
3.
Justification: ?
This course provides an opportunity ifor individual study on a topic
of the student's choice, under the guidance of a faculty member.
4.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the-course: Variable
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details): Yes
there are.
5.
Appended: ?
a)
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Outline of the Course:
b)
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An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course:
C)
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Library resources:
Approval:
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New Graduate Course Proposal Form
1. Calendar Information ?
Department: Linguistics
Abbrev. Code: LING Course Number: 897
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Credit Hours: 4 Vector:
Title of Course:
Research Seminar
Calendar Description of Course:
Critical evaluation of research presented by students
and faculty.
Prerequisites (or special instructions): ?
None, to be taken for satisfactory/unsatisfactory
grade only.
2.
Scheduling
Estimated Enrollment: ?
Five
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
Fall 1992
3.
justification:
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This course provides a forum for presentation and discussion of
ongoing research.
4.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course: Variable
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
None are needed.
S.
Appended: ?
a) ?
Outline of the Course:
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Not applicable
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member
to give the course: N/A
c)
Library resources: ?
N/A
Approval:
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY' ?
W.A.C. BENNETT LIBRARY
MEMORANDUM
To:
Alison Watt
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From:
Sharon Thomas
Secretary, SCAP
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Library
Subject: Linguistics 820, 821
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Date: June 22, 1992
cc:
I agree with the assessments of the Department of Linguistics and
believe that these two courses will be reasonably well supported by the
present collection. Both subjects (formal linguistics and phonetics)
are covered by current approval plans and ongoing needs should be met
automatically.
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