LINGUIST 197: Undergraduate Research Seminar

Spring 2021 Dan Jurafsky

Senior capstone seminar: Joint readings in an annually varying topic, exploring the implications and importance of linguistic research for other domains of knowledge or practice.

Syllabus

Week Date Chair Topics
2 Apr 9 Isabella
Child Directed Speech Qualities
3 Apr 16 Annika
Semiotics and Linguistics
  • Course in General Linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure) Part One, Chapter 1: Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Introduction, Chapter 1: A Glance at the History of Linguistics.
  • Video: What is Semiotics?
  • David Chandler's Semiotics: The Basics Pages 1-4 and 11-13
4 Apr 23 Isabella
Linguistic Appropriation
5 Apr 30 Jane and Dean
Meaning change in novel lexical items
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How does social media change how we communicate online?
6 May 7 All
Capstone Questions
7 May 14 Will
What does analysis of neural language models tell us about language?
8 May 21 Dean
Jokes and Humor
9 May 28 Jane
Bias in Language Datasets
10 June 4 Annika
Bias in Language Datasets

Course Information

Logistics

Instructor
Dan Jurafsky (jurafsky@stanford.edu)
Office: Margaret Jacks 117
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:15-6:00
Course Description
Senior capstone seminar. Joint readings in an annually varying topic, exploring the implications and importance of linguistic research for other domains of knowledge or practice.

Required Work

Weekly reading, a written commentary each week on the reading, and discussion of the weekly reading. In addition, each student will be leading discussion for a weekly topic.

List of topics from prior years

List of prior topics