These postgraduate modules are available to students on the MA Linguistics, MRes Speech, Language and Cognition, and MSc Language Sciences. Taught graduate students registered in other UCL departments, including affiliate students, are very welcome to select the graduate linguistics and phonetics modules listed below if places are available.
Most modules have a value of 15 credits, and you can find further information on each module by clicking on the link. Students wishing to take any of these modules should register for them on Portico. Available places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If a module is full when you register for it, you will be informed via email that we were unable to give you a place. It is not necessary for students to come to the department to sign up for these courses.
It is your responsibility to make sure that you meet the pre-requisites of option modules, details of which are available by clicking on the relevant link below. It is also your responsibility to make sure that you do not register for a module for which teaching clashes with your obligatory course.
You can access the module timetable by following the links below, but please note that timetable and roombooking information is provisional until the start of term. Please note that the module information (syllabus) is from last academic year, subject to change without notice, and for orientation only.
Module code | Module name | Term | ||
PLING121 / PLIN0047 | Syntax 1 | 1 | PLIN0047 specification | Obligatory for MA Linguistics students |
PLING150 / PLIN0032 | Sociolinguistics | 2 | PLIN0032 specification | |
PLING151 / PLIN0036 | Linguistics of Sign Languages | 2 | PLIN0036 specification | |
PLING154 / PLIN0021 | Phonetic Theory | 2 | PLIN0021 specification | |
PLING156 / PLIN0035 | Psycholinguistics: Stages in Normal Language Development (formally Language Acquisition) | 2 | PLIN0035 specification | |
PLING157/ PLIN0038 | Neurolinguistics | 2 | PLIN0038 specification | |
PLING158 / PLIN0039 | Morphology | NOT RUNNING 2018-19 | ||
PLING159 / PLIN0008 | Intro to Children's Language Development | 1 | PLIN0008 specification | Not an option for MA Linguistics students |
PLING198 / PLIN0048 | Foundations of Linguistics | 1 and 2 | PLIN0048 specification | Obligatory for MA Linguistics students |
PLING201 / PLIN0010 | Intermediate Pragmatics | 1 | PLIN0010 specification | Not an option for MA Linguistics students |
PLING203 / PLIN0012 | Pragmatics and Cognition | 1 | PLIN0012 specification | |
PLING204 / PLIN0018 | Issues in Pragmatics | 2 | PLIN0018 specification | |
PLING210 / PLIN0019 | Semantic-Pragmatic Development | 2 | PLIN0019 specification | |
PLING211 / PLIN0069 | Advanced Phonological Theory A | 1 | PLIN0069 specification | |
PLING213 / PLIN0070 | Advanced Phonological Theory B | 2 | PLIN0070 specification | |
PLING216 / PLIN0065 | Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology A | 1 | PLIN0065 specification | |
PLING217 / PLIN0066 | Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology B | 2 | PLIN0066 specification | |
PLING218 / PLIN0020 | Advanced Semantic Theory | 1 | PLIN0020 specification | |
PLING221 / PLIN0024 | Intermediate Generative Grammar: Locality | 2 | PLIN0024 specification | |
PLING222 / PLIN0023 | Current Issues in Syntax | 1 | PLIN0023 specification | |
PLING155 / PLIN0037 | Animal Communication and Human Language | 1 | PLIN0037 specification | |
PLING224 / PLIN0063 | Reading in Syntax | 2 | PLIN0063 specification | |
PLING226 / PLIN0067 | Intermediate Generative Grammar: Word Order | 1 | PLIN0067 specification | |
PLING228 / PLIN0056 | Semantics Research Seminar | 1 | PLIN0056 specification | |
PLING230 / PLIN0013 | Phonology of English | NOT RUNNING 2018-19 | ||
PLING231 / PLIN0041 | Seminar on Expressive Prosody | 1 | PLIN0041 specification | |
PLING232 / PLIN0009 | Semantic Theory | 2 | PLIN0009 specification | Not an option for MA Linguistics students |
PLING233 / PLIN0043 | Evolution of Language | PLIN0043 specification | NOT RUNNING 2018 /19 | |
PLING300 / PLIN0029 | Stuttering | 1 | PLIN0029 specification | |
PALSG306 / PALS0030 | Second Language Speech Learning | 2 | PALS0030 specification | see PALSG module info |
PLIN0075 | Topics in Chinese Syntax | 2 | PLIN0075 specification | |
PLIN0044 | Multilingualism in Cognition | 2 | PLIN0044 specification | |
PLING223 / PLIN0053 | Interfaces In Syntax | 2 | PLIN0053 specification | Obligatory for MA Linguistics students (must choose 2 from a group of 3 modules) |
PLIN0074 | Phonetics and Phonology II | 2 | PLIN0074 specification | Obligatory for MA Linguistics students (must choose 2 from a group of 3 modules) |
PLIN0081 | Semantics and Pragmatics II | 2 | PLIN0081 specification | Obligatory for MA Linguistics students (must choose 2 from a group of 3 modules) |
The Language Sciences option modules may also be of interest.
For any further information, please contact enquiries-linguistics@pals.ucl.ac.uk