100-level

LING101
How Language Works
Description
This course introduces students to the study of the English language, its words, sounds and sentences. It also introduces the conceptual and analytical tools which linguists use to understand how languages are constructed.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ENGL123, ENLA101
LING102
Language and Society in New Zealand and Beyond
Description
What do babies know about language when they're born? And how do our experiences as we get older affect both how we use language and what we think about other people's language behaviour? Why, for example, do people think some languages, or some dialects, are 'better' than others? And is there any truth behind such beliefs? In this course we consider a range of research from the field of linguistics that addresses these and other questions. The role of language experience will emerge as a recurrent theme: the experience that the infant has with a particular language; how our early experience with language affects how we speak and how we listen, and how our beliefs about language are created and maintained in connection to other experiences in our social lives.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ENLA102

200-level

LING212
Sounds and Words
Description
This course is an exploration in the structure of speech sounds. We will deal with with phonetics (how sounds are made or perceived by humans), phonology (how sounds are distributed across different languages) and morphology (how sounds combine to make meaningful units in a language). The goal of the course is to equip students with some of the basic tools necessary to conduct speech sound analysis of any language or linguistic variety.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at any level from LING
Restrictions
LING 215 LING 216
LING217
Grammatical structure
Description
This course introduces grammatical structures ranging from clauses to sentences to paragraphs. These layers of structure are essential parts of how languages encode meaning. The goal of the course is to understand both the range of syntactic structures that are found in language as well as the ways in which these structures express meaning.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at any level from LING.
Restrictions
LING201, LING206, LING211
LING225
Language and Social Justice
Description
How can we use linguistic evidence to solve crimes? What does linguistic analysis tell us about legal language? In this course, students learn how to use linguistics for forensic purposes. What can a piece of spoken or written language tell us about its authors? Can linguistic analysis expose inequalities in the legal system? What are the implications of using linguistic evidence for commercial or defense purposes?
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at any level from any subject.

300-level

LING307
Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
Description
This course follows on from second-year phonetics and phonology, covering selected advanced topics and current research in phonetics and phonological theory.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
LING215
Restrictions
LING301, LING311
LING310
Linguistics Research Project
Description
This course supports students to conduct their own empirical research project. Students will design their own research, and write a research paper reporting on their novel findings. The course will begin with orientation to New Zealand English, and learning about some empirical studies that have been done on this variety. Students will then develop their own empirical research question, using the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour's internationally renowned corpora, or by collecting their own data using a questionnaire or language experiment. Course content will be adapted to suit student interests, and the class will work together as a group to support the development of each other's projects.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 200 level from LING.
Restrictions
ENLA310

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

EURA104
European Languages in Europe and Beyond
Description
This is a one semester course for students undertaking a first year course in European languages or European studies, and is open to all undergraduates irrespective of their discipline. It covers a range of topics relating to the languages of Europe: how they developed and spread as a group of languages, as isolates, or the way in which (inter) national languages of Europe developed. The course also looks at the place languages take in the European Union, and how the construction of Europe insists on protecting language diversity. No knowledge of languages other than English is needed to take this course.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see EURA104 course details
Points
15 points
LING104
European Languages in Europe and Beyond
Description
This course is for students undertaking a first year course in European languages or in European Union studies. The course is open to all undergraduates irrespective of their discipline. It covers a range of topics relating to languages of Europe: how they developed and spread as a group of languages, as isolates, or the way in which (inter)national languages of Europe developed. The course also looks at the role languages play in the European Union, and how the construction of Europe insists on protecting language diversity.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017
For further information see LING104 course details
Points
15 points

200-level

LING210
Sociolinguistic methods
Description
This course explores the sociolinguistic study of language variation and change. We examine how language varies both between individuals (e.g. accents) and within individuals (e.g. style). You will also learn transferable research skills. Students will record a sociolinguistic interview and analyse it to uncover hidden linguistic patterns.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2020 , 2021 , 2022
For further information see LING210 course details
Points
15 points
LING219
Language Acquisition
Description
This course deals with key aspects of how human language is acquired by children, from infancy to adolescence. Selected topics in bilingual and second language development are also covered.
Occurrences
LING219-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see LING219 course details
LING219-24S1 (D)
Semester One 2024 (Distance) - Not offered
For further information see LING219 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at any level from any subject.
Restrictions
CMDS221, LING205
LING223
Text Analytics
Description
This course introduces computational methods for understanding the vast amount of information and human knowledge that has been stored as language data. This field is also known as computational linguistics or natural language processing.
Occurrences
LING223-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see LING223 course details
LING223-24S1 (D)
Semester One 2024 (Distance) - Not offered
For further information see LING223 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
15 points at any level from any subject.
Restrictions
DIGI223
LING230
Special Topics in Linguistics
Occurrences
LING230-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see LING230 course details
LING230-24S1 (D)
Semester One 2024 (Distance) - Not offered
For further information see LING230 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at any level from any subject.

300-level

LING306
Topics in Syntactic Theory
Description
This course follows on from second-year syntax, covering selected advanced topics and current research in syntactic theory.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2023
For further information see LING306 course details
Points
30 points
LING309
Topics in Morphology and Word Formation
Description
Words have an internal structure and, in many languages, words also take inflections. Theories relating to these basic properties predict that there are limits on both word formation and inflection. They also predict that there will be interface conditions with the phonology, syntax and semantics of languages. This course will explore and test some of these theories by reference to a range of languages.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see LING309 course details
Points
30 points
LING320
History of English
Description
This course explores language variation and change, and illustrates these notions through a survey of the way in which English has varied and changed during its recorded history. It will look both at the social history of the language and the linguistic changes that have taken place over the last 1400 years.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
For further information see LING320 course details
Points
30 points