Program Requirements
The B.A.; Honours in Linguistics program focuses on the various sub-areas of linguistics with substantial breadth and depth. The program includes an Honours Thesis that emphasizes the process of independent research.
Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 (B+ average) in their program courses and a minimum grade of B+ must be obtained in three out of four of the following courses: LING 330, LING 331, LING 360, LING 371, as well as LING 480D1/D2. According to Faculty of Arts regulations, Honours students must also maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general. The requirement for First Class Honours is a CGPA of 3.50 and a minimum grade of A- in the Honours Thesis.
Required Courses (21 credits)
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LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : General introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Covers the core theoretical subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also provides background on other subfields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and language acquisition.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Munteanu, Andrei (Fall)
Fall and Winter
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LING 330 Phonetics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Transcription, identification, and production of speech sounds. Introduction to the acoustic properties of speech sounds, acoustic analysis of speech, and auditory phonetics.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Munteanu, Andrei (Fall) Munteanu, Andrei (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LlNG 201
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LING 331 Phonology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Introduction to phonological theory and analysis.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Goad, Heather (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: LING 330.
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LING 360 Introduction to Semantics (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Introduction to the rudiments of semantics, focusing on those aspects of meaning that are invariant across contexts and the ways in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituents.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gillon, Brendan (Fall)
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LING 371 Syntax 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Introduction to the study of generative syntax of natural languages, emphasizing basic concepts and formalism: phrase structure rules, transformations, and conditions on rules.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Shimoyama, Junko (Fall) Martinovic, Martina (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 201.
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LING 480D1 Honours Thesis (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : Honours thesis.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Coon, Jessica; Goad, Heather; Martinovic, Martina (Fall)
Students must register for both LING 480D1 and LING 480D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both LING 480D1 and LING 480D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
LING 480D1 and LING 480D2 together are equivalent to LING 480.
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LING 480D2 Honours Thesis (3 credits)
Overview
Linguistics : See LING 480D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Coon, Jessica; Goad, Heather; Martinovic, Martina (Winter)
Prerequisite: LING 480D1.
No credit will be given for this course unless both LING 480D1 and LING 480D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
LING 480D1 and LING 480D2 together are equivalent to LING 480.
* Required courses must be completed at 91社区 unless Departmental permission is obtained.
Complementary Courses (39 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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COMP 230 Logic and Computability (3 credits)
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of G枚del's theorem.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
3 hours
Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics.
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MATH 318 Mathematical Logic (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, G枚del's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; G枚del's incompleteness theorem.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Fortier, J茅r么me (Fall)
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PHIL 210 Introduction to Deductive Logic 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hallett, Michael Frank (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
24 credits of Linguistics (LING) courses, 15 of the credits in Linguistics must be at the 400/500 level and only 3 credits in Linguistics can be at the 200 level.
Other Fields
12 credits in related fields selected from the following list.
Computer Science
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COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits)
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: M'hiri, Faten (Fall) M'hiri, Faten (Winter)
3 hours
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 204, COMP 208, or GEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 204 is intended for students in life sciences, and COMP 208 is intended for students in physical sciences and engineering.
To take COMP 202, students should have a solid understanding of pre-calculus fundamentals such as polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
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COMP 230 Logic and Computability (3 credits)
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of G枚del's theorem.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
3 hours
Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics.
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COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits)
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Mathematical tools (binary numbers, induction,recurrence relations, asymptotic complexity,establishing correctness of programs). Datastructures (arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists,trees, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps,hash tables). Recursive and non-recursivealgorithms (searching and sorting, tree andgraph traversal). Abstract data types. Objectoriented programming in Java (classes andobjects, interfaces, inheritance). Selected topics.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Alberini, Giulia (Fall) Alberini, Giulia (Winter)
French Language and Literature
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FREN 231 Linguistique fran莽aise (3 credits)
Overview
French (Arts) : Bref historique de la linguistique fran莽aise de F. de Saussure 脿 nos jours. Description linguistique du fran莽ais moderne (茅l茅ments de phonologie, de phon茅tique normative, de lexicologie, de s茅mantique 茅volutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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FREN 336 Histoire de la langue fran莽aise (3 credits)
Overview
French (Arts) : Histoire de la langue fran莽aise, du bas-latin 脿 la langue moderne. 脡tude de l'茅volution phon茅tique, syntaxique, s茅mantique. 脡tude de textes des diff茅rentes 茅poques.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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FREN 434 Sociolinguistique du fran莽ais (3 credits)
Overview
French (Arts) : 脡l茅ments de sociolinguistique et leur application aux pays francophones. Rapports entre les aspects phonologiques, grammaticaux et lexicologiques du parler et le milieu social. Langues en contact, planification linguistique.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Language
Any course in language (other than the student's native language) - literature courses are not acceptable.
Mathematics
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MATH 240 Discrete Structures (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Macdonald, Jeremy; Goh, Marcel (Fall) Fortier, J茅r么me (Winter)
Philosophy
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PHIL 306 Philosophy of Mind (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Davies, David (Fall)
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PHIL 415 Philosophy of Language (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gillon, Brendan (Fall)
Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy
Psychology
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PSYC 311 Human Cognition and the Brain (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : The course is an introduction to the field studying how human cognitive processes, such as perception, attention, language, learning and memory, planning and organization, are related to brain processes. The material covered is primarily based on studies of the effects of different brain lesions on cognition and studies of brain activity in relation to cognitive processes with modern functional neuroimaging methods.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Masset, Paul (Fall)
Fall
2 lectures; 1 conference
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PSYC 340 Psychology of Language (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : A survey of issues in psycholinguistics, focusing on the nature and processing of language (e.g., how we understand speech sounds, words, sentences, and discourse). Also surveyed: language and thought, the biological foundations of language, and first language acquisition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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PSYC 341 The Psychology of Bilingualism (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : This course will examine issues in bilingualism, including second language acquisition in children and adults, critical period hypothesis, cognitive consequences and correlates of bilingualism, social psychological aspects of bilingualism, and bilingual education.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Titone, Debra Ann (Winter)
Winter
2 lectures
Prerequisites: Introductory Psychology, and PSYC 340 or introduction to linguistics; or permission of instructor
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PSYC 433 Cognitive Science (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : The multi-disciplinary study of cognitive science, exploring the computer metaphor of the mind as an information-processing system. Focus on levels of analysis, symbolic modeling, Turing machines, neural networks, as applied to topics such as reasoning, vision, decision-making, and consciousness.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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PSYC 530 Applied Topics in Deafness (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : Covers fundamental topics in deafness (sensory, perceptual, cognitive, social, linguistic, education and health issues) from an applied psychological perspective. Lectures and seminar presentations plus field work involving ASL/LSQ.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Statistics
Any course in statistics (from any department).
