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This course introduces students to the major roles and uses of language in human society from linguistic and applied linguistic perspectives. Students will learn to understand key connections between language, society, the mind, and education, amongs...

Language is the 'operating system' of human beings, shaping our history, culture and technological achievements. This course introduces students to the scientific understanding of how language is designed, how it evolved, how it is learnt and cogniti...

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The course explores the key features and patterns of English vocabulary and grammar from the perspective of the challenges they present to learners and teachers. It examines the implications for planning teaching and assessing learning. Students will...

This course introduces fundamental natural language processing concepts including pre-processing, text analytics, lexical annotation, and language models in order to understand how language is represented computationally. Students will learn how to u...

This course examines the cognitive and social processes involved in the learning of first and second/additional languages, including the study of bilingualism and multilingualism, and focusing on the implications for language learners and teachers.

This advanced linguistics course investigates the core of syntax, morphology, phonology, and phonetics with a typological emphasis, focusing on uniformity and variation across different language families. You will explore universal language principle...