16.7 points 2nd and 3rd years Dominique Estival. 50 points completed in Computer Science subjects, or by permission of the subject convenor. This unit cannot be taken by those who have completed Introduction to the Study of Language I and/or Introduction to the Study of Language II. First semester 2 lectures and 1 tutorial Students who complete this subject should be able to:-

• demonstrate a general understanding of the nature of human language and the major issues in linguistics;
• show they have begun to develop skills for describing and analyzing languages;
• show they have gained a conceptual framework for thinking about and discussing language;
• demonstrate an awareness of the place of linguistics in cognitive science and computational applications.

An introduction to linguistic analysis and representation with a focus on issues and problems in the computational modelling of natural language (understanding, generation and translation). Assignments and an end of semester take home exam, totalling 5,000 words. Akmajian, A. , Demers, R. , Farmer, A. & Harnish, R. (1990) Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication (Revised 3rd edition) Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press