<p>Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Overview of formal computational ideas underlying kinds of grammars used in theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. Themes include role of recursion, relationship between structure and interpretation (both PF and LF), relationship between grammars and probabilities, and relationship between derivations and parsing. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Linguistics

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College of Letters and Science

The department focuses on the scientific study of language in all aspects; programs emphasize linguistic theory in combination with fieldwork, experimentation, and computational methods.

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Computational Linguistics I

LING 209A

5 units