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Models and methods in language description

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Course type:
Compulsory course
When:
2 year, 3 module

Instructors

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is compulsory for the students of the MA program Linguistic theory and language description (NRU HSE). The aim of the course is to introduce the students to a variety of theoretical models employed in some major domains of linguistic inquiry, such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The course is therefore divided into modules devoted to these domains. Each module is taught by a lecturer/lecturers, specializing in the corresponding domain.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The course continues for two years. This programme is for the 1-st pars or the course and covers such themes as: instrumental phonetics and phonology, formal semantics and pragmatics and formal syntax (the Case Theory).
  • The course is not introductive and requires basic kniwledge of linguistic theory and articulatory phonetics.
  • This course familiarizes the students with the theoretical models and methods currently employed in various areas of language description and linguistic theorizing.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • The students are able to apply the main ideas of IP in their researches
  • the students are able to interpret transcriptions and write them
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Instrumental phonetics
  • Probabilistic language modelling
  • Phonology: From Underlying to Surface Representation
  • Linguistic Fieldwork
  • Foundations of Semantics
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Home assignment (Instrumental Phonetics)
  • non-blocking Exam (Instrumental Phonetics)
  • non-blocking Home task (Language Modelling)
  • non-blocking Paper presentation (Language Modelling)
  • non-blocking Detailed questions to the paper (Linguistic Fieldwork)
    3 detailed questions to the parper
  • non-blocking Paper analysis (Linguistic Fieldwork)
    a short summary of the parper for about 300 words
  • non-blocking Final test (Linguistic Fieldwork)
  • non-blocking Bonus task (Linguistic Fieldwork)
    a set of stimuli for field research
  • non-blocking Quiz 1 (Foundations of Semantics)
  • non-blocking Quiz 2 (Foundations of Semantics)
  • non-blocking Home task (Foundations of Semantics)
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 3rd module
    0.7 * Exam (Instrumental Phonetics) + 0.7 * Exam (Instrumental Phonetics) + 0.3 * Home assignment (Instrumental Phonetics) + 0.3 * Home assignment (Instrumental Phonetics)
  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.1 * Bonus task (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.1 * Bonus task (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.14 * Detailed questions to the paper (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.14 * Detailed questions to the paper (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.17 * Final test (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.17 * Final test (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.3 * Home task (Language Modelling) + 0.3 * Home task (Language Modelling) + 0.14 * Paper analysis (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.14 * Paper analysis (Linguistic Fieldwork) + 0.15 * Paper presentation (Language Modelling) + 0.15 * Paper presentation (Language Modelling)
  • 2024/2025 3rd module
    0.5 * Home task (Foundations of Semantics) + 0.5 * Home task (Foundations of Semantics) + 0.25 * Quiz 1 (Foundations of Semantics) + 0.25 * Quiz 1 (Foundations of Semantics) + 0.25 * Quiz 2 (Foundations of Semantics) + 0.25 * Quiz 2 (Foundations of Semantics)
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Paul H. Portner, & Barbara H. Partee. (2008). Formal Semantics : The Essential Readings. [N.p.]: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=231496

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Gussenhoven, C. (2004). The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=164285

Authors

  • TOLDOVA SVETLANA YUREVNA
  • MOROZ GEORGIY ALEKSEEVICH
  • RYZHOVA DARYA ALEKSANDROVNA
  • POPOVA DARYA PAVLOVNA
  • RUSSKIKH ALINA ALEKSEEVNA