This course deals with ways of using computers for linguistic research and topics in natural language processing, focusing on Korean textual data. It introduces various Unix commands and the statistical package R. It also teaches the programming language Python, so that students can produce their own codes for their research purposes. In addition, it deals with various machine learning techniques including deep learning, focusing on uses for natural language processing.

This course aims at understanding and exploring various fields that apply theoretical knowledge of language and research achievements of Korean linguistics. These applied areas include language acquisition, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, speech synthesis and recognition, quantitative linguistics, language policy and so on. These are not only meaningful in themselves, but also provide a real support for the theoretical Korean linguistics.

In this course, students will learn the theories of phonetics, the foundational science in the research of phonology, and what influence it has had on Korean phonological research. The course will progress as follows: First, among the various kinds of phonetics the articulatory phonetics will be examined in detail, then the students will accurately learn the international phonetic(IPA) symbols and gain the ability to transcribe various sounds, and finally the class will examine the ingredients that make up Korean phonetics and what relationship it has to phonology.

This course attempts to understand the methodology by which systematic features of selected dialects may be understood. The class will be divided into geographical and social dialectology. In geographical dialectology, one may study the phonological, grammatical, and lexical characteristics of the dialect from a particular region or compare different dialects altogether. In the former case, however, the characteristics of Korean dialect are generally limited to phonology. In social dialectology, one will look at the variety of use, which is dependent on various social factors, and practice its systematic description.

Language proficiency means making grammatically correct sentences with the knowledge of sound, form, and meaning. However, just because someone can make grammatically correct sentences does not mean that they can communicate well. Sociocultural knowledge of the context in which language is used is necessary for successful communication. Sociolinguistics is the field of research that studies the relationship between a language and its sociocultural context. In this course, students will come to understand the theoretical foundations of sociolinguistics. They will also examine, through experiential materials, how the Korean language, within the Korean language community,is connected to such social factors as class, generation, age, and speaker’s sex, as well as how these social factors are reflected and structured within the language.

When using antiquated materials for language study, one must first grasp when, where, and by whom the target materials were published.One must also judge whether the target literature is a first publication, a re-publication, or a transcribed copy. That is, a bibliographical understanding of the target material must precede any study of that material. Through this course, students will learn how to evaluate materials related to the study of Korean linguistics from the bibliographical viewpoint and broaden their understanding of Korean linguistic research materials.

Korean Pragmatics is the study of various aspects of utterance meaning in real contexts. It is a field more concerned with the speaker’s intentions and listener’s comprehension in actual utterance situations rather than the structures or meanings related to the overt structure or lexical elements. Korean Pragmatics deals with the interesting problems such as deixis, conversational implicature, presupposition, speech acts, dialogue structure, and information structure.

The goal of this course is to inquire into what sorts of study have been done in Korean linguistics and what the major trends have been. We will look into the periodic divisions of the history of Korean linguistics and then survey the results from the studies of selected scholars from each period. Students will be assigned one scholar on which to give a presentation and discuss in class.

The goal of this course is to help students understand the basic theories on compiling dictionaries. They will examine current dictionaries, point out existing problems, and devising a method of compiling a better dictionary. The class will divide the subject matter into such sections as the recording of guidewords and definitions, methods of arrangement, and grammatical information. Each student will give a presentation and lead the class into discussion.

The goal of this course is to read various works of Korean literature and to increase the ability to analyze texts rather than use mere impressional or intuitive analysis techniques. Through the analysis of specific texts, we will examine the application of textual formation and expansion principles to actual literary works. Through this process, students will gain the ability to engage in analytical literary criticism.

This course discusses the lexical structure of Korean. Topics to be dealt with include the internal structure of words, word formation, borrowing of words, word meaning and its change, lexical relations, classification of lexical items, lexical statistics, and lexicography.

The goal of this course is to understand the process of researching Korean phonology through use of authentic language samples and texts. The class will consist of gathering,organizing as well as interperting materials, in order to establish a phonetic inventory and prepare a phonological system. It will also create an underlying form, set up rules, and explain the phonological process. The target language will be dealt with synchronic as well as diachronic phonological methods.

In this course we will examine the Korean and U.S. doctoral theses that focus on the Korean, Japanese, or English language. Students will understand and criticize the current trends from the aspects of changes in theory, the application of actual theoretical materials, and the unique characteristics of interpretation. This should be of great assistance in one’s thesis preparation.

The course investigates the results of Korean linguistics from overseas and compares them with the literature published in Korea, trying to find the way for a unified study on Korean linguistics. First of all, those results through the world are classified and examined according to the regions such as Japan, USA or Europe and the various fields of Korean linguistics such as phonology, morphology, syntax or semantics. Furthermore, we are going to survey what to do with both those results and the domestic results for the future of Korean linguistics.

When written characters were first created, their primary function was to supplement the spoken language. However, as people grew accustomed to using written language, it became more than a supplement to the spoken language. It developed into a system of independent functions. It has not been that long since written characters have been invented and there are fewer written languages than there are spoken languages. This course closely examines the creation ofthe Korean hangeul writing system, that is, Hunminjeongeum, such as the general principles that created the characters and its methods of use. Also studied are the process of change in the writing system along with various issues concering its use.