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LIN 580 - Field Methods: Data Management and Analysis

3 Credits

An exploration of practical methodology for managing, analyzing and describing language data.

Practical methodology for managing, analyzing and describing language data. Working with a native speaker of a non-Indo-European language, students gain experience in the ethics of fieldwork, techniques of data collection and recording, analysis using the scientific method and the use of linguistic software.
Please note that LING LING 361 and LING 362 can be used as a prerequisite instead of LING 360 Grammatical Analysis.
NB: LIN 560 is recommended in the same semester.

Prerequisites:

LIN 210 Language and Society

LIN 310 Articulatory Phonetics

LIN 330 Phonological Analysis

LIN 360 Grammatical Analysis