English Linguistics: Theories, Interfaces, Technologies

1. You notice that people say ‘a big red ball’ but never ‘a red big ball’. What’s your reaction?

2. How do you feel about transcribing speech in phonetic symbols and analysing sounds with special software?

3. Would you like to search millions of words of real texts to see how a word is actually used?

4. How interested are you in how children acquire language or how bilingual people switch between languages?

5. How do you feel about learning some programming to work with language data, as in chatbots or machine translation?

6. You’ll study in English with classmates from different language backgrounds. How does that sound?

7. ‘Can you pass the salt?’ isn’t really a question about ability. Do you enjoy puzzles like this about meaning and context?

8. How do you feel about comparing linguistic theories and arguing which one explains the data better?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to study English Linguistics: Theories, Interfaces, Technologies?