(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

146examples for this course will come from the unique sociocultural context of Hong Kong. Datacollection and handling and practical applications of discourse analytic approaches will constitute animportant part of the course as well as the assessment for the course.Prerequisite: LING1000Assessment: 100% coursework.Note: Non-permissible combination: EDUC2204 or EDUC3202.LING3125.Corpus linguistics (6 credits)Over the past two decades, corpus linguistics has offered a new research paradigm and become aprominent tool in different areas of linguistics, including lexical and grammatical studies, languagevariation and pedagogy. What are corpora? How could a (prospective) researcher investigatelanguage-related issues with corpora? This course will present the foundations of corpus linguistics.To give you a flavour of the use of corpora (e.g. the British National Corpus) and corpus explorationtools (e.g. WordSmith) and the statistics package SPSS in language studies, it will take the form ofunconventional lectures (with live demonstrations of online corpus-linguistic resources) along withpracticals (your turn!). Of course, no familiarity with computing is assumed.Prerequisite: LING1000Assessment: 100% coursework.LING3127.Phonology: An introduction to the study of sound systems (6 credits)The goal of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts in phonology and variousphonological systems of human languages. Students acquire experience in analyzing language dataand formulating phonological rules.Prerequisite: LING1000 and LING2004Assessment: 100% coursework.LING3130.Morphological theory (6 credits)This course is an introduction to morphological theory which deals with the structure of words. Thecourse offers an introduction to some of the current models of morphology, including ParadigmFunction Morphology, Prosodic Morphology and Optimality Theory, among others, and considershow morphology interacts with other fields of linguistics such as syntax, semantics and phonology.Prerequisite: LING1000Assessment: 100% coursework.LING3132.Syntactic theory (6 credits)The course explores recent theoretical approaches to syntax, focusing on generative grammar.Prerequisite: LING1000 and LING2050Assessment: 100% coursework.LING3134.Psycholinguistics (6 credits)This course is an introduction to psycholinguistics and will examine issues concerning how languageis acquired and processed in the mind. Essential concepts of the mental processes involved inlanguage comprehension and production and contemporary research will be covered in this course.There will also be practical laboratory classes.Prerequisite: LING1000 and LING2048Assessment: 100% coursework.