Undergraduate Courses:

Academic Year 2012/2013 (3-Year Curriculum)

All courses have LING1001 ‘Introduction to linguistics’ as their prerequisite and are taught as one-semester courses. Course availability is subject to staffing considerations.

• Major in General Linguistics
• Minor in General Linguistics
• Major in Human Language Technology

First Semester:

LING2003 Semantics: Meaning and Grammar
LING2004A Phonetics
LING2009 Languages of the World
LING2036 Child Language
LING2048 Language and Cognition
LING2050 Grammatical Description
LING2055 Reading Development and Reading Disorders
LING2056 Sociolinguistics
LING3002 Extended Essay
LING3003 Linguistics Field Trip

Second Semester:

LING2004B Phonetics
LING2022 Pragmatics
LING2027 Phonology
LING2032 Syntactic Theory
LING2034 Psycholinguistics
LING2040 Languages in Contact
LING2058 Cantonese Linguistics
LING3002 Extended Essay
LING3003 Linguistics Field Trip

Other Courses Not on Offer in 2012/2013:

LING2001 Computational Linguistics
LING2002 Conversation Analysis
LING2010 Language and Dialect
LING2011 Language and Literacy in the Information Age
LING2012 Experimental Phonetics
LING2013 Language Typology
LING2018 Lexical-Functional Grammar
LING2023 Discourse Analysis
LING2024 Lexicology and Lexicography
LING2025 Corpus Linguistics
LING2030 Morphological Theory
LING2033 Contrastive Grammar of English and Chinese
LING2037 Bilingualism
LING2041 Language and Information Technology
LING2047 Optimality Theory
LING2052 Swahili Structure and Universal Grammar
LING2053 Language and the Brain
LING2057 Language Evolution

Second/third year time tables: