LING 495

Language Variation and Change

Units: 1.5

Hours: 3-0-0

An introduction to linguistic variation and its social significance, especially the quantitative study of phonological and grammatical features and their correlations with age, sex, ethnicity and other social variables. Includes field methods, quantitative methods for correlating linguistic and social variables and practice in dialect analysis based on data from the speech community.

Prerequisites:

LING 200 and LING 203.

Recommendation(s):

LING 204 recommended prior to LING 495.

Undergraduate course in Linguistics offered by the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities.

Schedules:

Fall 2018

Spring 2019

Summer 2019

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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