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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
UCL (University College London) - Bloomsbury Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
4 Year
The Linguistics BA and Experimental Linguistics BSc share many core elements which to build your linguistic education. In the first year of the BA, your modules are all compulsory, providing a broad foundation in linguistics and helping you assess where your own interests and strengths lie. In addition to compulsory modules in core areas of semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, phonology and syntax, you will also take a module in language acquisition.In the second year, you take four intermediate modules covering the core areas of linguistics. You will also take four elective modules from a substantial pool offered by the department, though two of them can alternatively be taken outside the department.Linguistics is the study of the capacity to use language. At UCL, students investigate the sound patterns (Phonetics and Phonology) and grammatical structures (Syntax) of the world's languages, and how we create and use meaningful expressions (Semantics and Pragmatics). Students on our programmes can explore a range of topics including language acquisition and processing, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language evolution, and animal communication.
This module aims to provide conceptual and theoretical foundations for studying linguistics.
This year-long module introduces students to the scientific study of human language, with special emphasis on sentence structure. This is a compulsory module for the BA Linguistics.
After introducing language acquisition as a theoretical issue, the course will concentrate on empirical evidence of the nature and effects of input to children, and the nature of children's language production and comprehension at different stages, including discussion of the processes by which language is acquired
This is an introductory course in phonetics, including lab work, transcription and aural/oral practice. This module introduces basic phonetic concepts and focuses on developing critical skills, with the aim of providing a foundation for further study in phonetics, phonology, and related fields.
This module introduces the concept of phonemic transcription and discusses the features of connected speech in English. Feature representations of segments are introduced and the concept of formal phonological rules and underlying representations are discussed. An introduction to acoustics and speech perception.
This course is an introduction to the study of meaning in natural language (semantics and pragmatics) and to some basic logical concepts and their application therein.
This module is an introduction to the study of pragmatics. It covers the nature of communication, the relation between language and communication, and some recent approaches to the study of communication.
Different theories of human communication and utterance comprehension are discussed, including Gricean, neo-Gricean and relevance-theoretic approaches. The specific topics and data discussed vary from year to year but are taken from the following list: referring expressions and speaker?s reference, conversational implicatures, pragmatic enrichments of explicit content, word meaning modulation, unarticulated constituents, indexical saturation, non-literal uses of language (metaphor, hyperbole, metonymy, irony).
This module is an intermediate module on the study of meaning in natural language. It introduces logical concepts and their application in semantics and pragmatics, especially focusing on compositionality and quantification.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
This is a placeholder module to allow accreditation of the modules studied at the host university by BA Linguistics International Programme students while on their year abroad. This module carries no credits and will not count towards the final degree result. Students will be supported in designing an appropriate programme of study while abroad by the UCL Study Abroad team and the Study Abroad Tutor at UCL, and their counterpart at the partner university.
The Long Essay offers students the opportunity to hone their subject-specific and generic research skills under the supervision of a trained researcher. As such, it provides students an important learning opportunity on the way to becoming an independent researcher. It involves independent research under supervision. The topic can be in any area of Linguistics, but should allow the student to draw on material that was covered in the modules taken, so that the research can achieve sufficient depth and the student can show evidence of their growing mastery of the subject area.
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