Courses

Non-credit courses only. Certificates will be awarded on successful completion of requirements.

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Comparative Philippine linguistics (Hsiu-chuan Liao)

 

This course provides an introduction to the principles of historical linguistics. We will examine the concepts of linguistic reconstruction and change through a problem-solving approach.Topics to be addressed include: (i) Genetic relationship; (ii) Sound change and the Comparative Method; (iii) Language contact and borrowing; (iv) Subgrouping; (v) Linguistic prehistory. Data will be drawn from a variety of languages, with a focus on the languages of the Austronesian language family.

 

 

 

Sociolinguistics (Maria Lourdes S. Bautista, Isabel P. Martin)

 

The course will deepen the student’s understanding of sociolinguistics, the study of language in its social context, through the reading and discussion of classic works and a wide range of empirical and ethnographic studies, local and foreign. The course will present the theoretical, methodological, and empirical concerns of sociolinguistics, with focus on the historical foundations of sociolinguistics and current research in the discipline.

 

 

Psycholinguistics (Resty M. Cena)

 

 

Child language acquisition plays a significant and unique role in providing empirical data for the evaluation of theoretical linguistic proposals, notably, aspects of universal grammar such as the innateness hypothesis and parametric language variation. In this course, students will participate in this effort, replicating in Tagalog important studies in other languages or designing new studies on the acquisition of Tagalog or any other Philippine language by children. Very early on in the course, students will select an experimentally testable issue in linguistic theory, then design the research plan, gather data, and present results in class. Class activities will include discussion of linguistic issues, evaluation of data gathering methodologies, survey of the literature, and presentation of progress reports on their research activities. Student marks will be based on two factors: the quality of the student course paper and of their review of a another student’s course paper.

 

 

Research methods in applied linguistics (Danilo T. Dayag)

 

 

 

Morphosyntax of Philippine languages (Videa P. de Guzman)

 

As the study of the internal structure of words, this morphology portion of the "Morpho-Syntax" course aims to provide a clearer understanding of the morphological processes involved in some Philippine languages and of how the word forms, in a given language, can be accounted for more adequately. The syntax part of the course deals mainly with the structure of Tagalog. Some of the topics discussed are merge, split-analysis of VP, NP, and CP; agreement, movement, case, and phases.

 

 

Phonetics, Phonology and Orthography of Philippine languages (Ricardo Ma. D. Nolasco, J. Stephen Quakenbush)

 

This course offers an overview of Articulatory Phonetics, introducing the International Phonetic Alphabet with intensive drill in production and transcription of sounds found in Philippine languages.  Fundamentals of Acoustic Phonetics are briefly discussed and demonstrated. An introduction to common phonological processes also focuses on language data from the Philippines.  Finally, important aspects of orthography development are considered, and details for a proposed Philippine national orthography explored.

 

Lexicography of Philippine languages (Leonard E. Newell, Allan Johnson, Rudolfo Barlaan)

 

In order to take full advantage of this course, please bring with you a computer to work on, Windows XP or newer, with a minimum of 512MB of memory.

 

 

Language Development and Multilingual Education (Catherine M.B. Young, Diane Dekker)

 

 

Educators, NGO workers and policy developers in Asia are concerned with the design and implementation of education programs responsive to multilingual contexts. This course will focus on developing programmes in lesser-known languages and emphasise using the mother tongue as the gateway to basic literacy.

 

 

The course will aim to discuss the complexity of issues involved in bridging between languages of education in a way that does not require the replacement of the minority language with a more dominant language but promotes language maintenance and vitalisation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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