Graduate Institute of Linguistics MA Linguistics Program Course Map
Graduate degree：34 credits
Masters Thesis
※ Credit limit:
1.
At least 6 credits in the
first year.
Required credits (13 credits)
2.
At least 3 credits in the
second year.
Phonology I
Research and Writing
Syntax I
Colloquium
Students must choose one major area (at least 9
credits) and one minor area (at least 6 credits)
among the following six areas:
Elective credits（21 credits）
Phonology
Syntax and
Pragmatics and
Languages and
and Phonetics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Cognition
Computational
Linguistics and
Corpus Linguistics
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Course area
Courses
Required courses
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Phonology I
Syntax I
Research and Writing
Colloquium
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Phonetics (I) (II)
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Phonology (I). (II)
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Phonetics Lab (I) (II)
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Mandarin Phonetics
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Tonal Analysis
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Sign Language: Phonology and Morphology
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Seminar on Sign Language Phonology
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Advanced Phonology Seminar
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Phonology Seminar: Syllable Structure
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Seminar on Phonology Acquisition (I) (II)
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Phonology Seminar
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Seminar on Laboratory Phonology
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Phonology and the Lexicon
First area:
Phonology and Phonetics
Chinese Language
Teaching and
Learning
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Phonology Seminar: Markedness and Frequency
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Advanced Phonetics
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Advanced Laboratory Phonology
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Phonology Seminar: Phonology and Phonetics
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Phonology Seminar: Prosody
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Linguistic Structure of Southern Min: Phonetics and Phonology
Mandarin and English Phonetics
The Phonetics of Spoken and Signed Languages
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Semantics
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Semantics (I)(II)
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Formal Semantics 2.5
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Syntax (II)
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Morphology
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Experimental Syntax 2.4
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Chinese Grammar
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Chinese Grammar (I)(II)
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Verbs and Cognition 2.4
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Lexical-Functional Grammar
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Lexical Semantics
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Verbal Semantics
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Syntax and Semantics in Formosan Languages (I) (II)
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Lexicon and Syntax of Taiwan Sign Language
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Seminar on Taiwan Sign Language Syntax
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Semantics and Syntax of Taiwan Sign Language
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Seminar on classifiers in Spoken and Signed Languages
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Conceptual Structure and Grammar 2.3.4
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Taiwan Sign Language Grammar
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Advanced Syntax
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Seminar on Syntax
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Topics on Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Seminar on Semantics
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Seminar on Syntax: Coordination
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Cognition-based Chinese Grammar (I)(II)2.4
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Issues in Minimalist Syntax
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The Syntax of Complex Predicate Constructions
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Role and Reference Grammar
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Cognition-based English Grammar 2.4
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Cognition-based Taiwan Sign Language Grammar 2.4
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Seminar on Pragmatics :2,3
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Austronesian Linguistics
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Taiwan Sign Language Semantics
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Advanced Seminar on Semantics
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Comparative Syntax
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Second area:
Syntax and Semantics
2,3
Third area:
Pragmatics and
Sociolinguistics
Fourth area:
Language and Cognition
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Linguistic Structure of Southern Min: Syntax and Semantics
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Sign Language: Phonology and Morphology
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Pragmatics
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Sociolinguistics
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Discourse Analysis
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Language Variation and Change
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Gesture, Facial Expression and Communication 3.4
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Conceptual Structure and Grammar 2.3.4
Seminar on Pragmatics 2,3
Language and Culture of Deaf
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Introduction to Sign Language Research 3,4
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Austronesian Linguistics 2,3
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Seminar on Sociolinguistics
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Applied Linguistics 3,4
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Gesture, Facial Expression and Communication 3.4
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Experimental Syntax 2.4
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Verbs and Cognition 2.4
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Psycholinguistics
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Advanced Psycholinguistics
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Cognitive Linguistics
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Language and Cognition
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Categorization and Cognition
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Categorization and Cognition (I)(II)
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Conceptual Structure and Grammar 2.3.4
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Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition(I) (II)
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Comparative Study of Sign Languages (I)(II)
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Visual Linguistics
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Cognitive Linguistics Seminar: Metaphor Language Evolution
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Linguistic Theory and Sign Language Typology
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Competence and Performance
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Cognition-based Chinese Grammar (I)、(II)2.4
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Psycholinguistics Seminar
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Seminar on Sign Linguistics (I)
Cognition-based English Grammar 2.4
Cognition-based Taiwan Sign Language Grammar 2.4
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Introduction to Neurolinguistics
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Clinical Linguistics
Language Universality and Innateness
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Introduction to Sign Language Research 3,4
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Language Acquisition, Development and Attrition 3,4
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Language and Aging: Comprehension and Production
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Introduction to Metaphor
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Applied Linguistics 3,4
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Cognitive Neurology and Language Learning
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Formal Semantics 2.5
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Computational Linguistics
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Computational Linguistics （II）
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Fifth area:
Computational and Corpus 
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Linguistics
Mathematical Linguistics: Connectionism
Mathematical Linguistics (II)
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Child Language Corpus（I）
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Child Language Corpus（II）
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Mathematical Linguistics
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Research Methods in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second
Language
Chinese Semantics
Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language
Sixth aera:
Chinese Language Teaching 
and Learning
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Chinese Language Teaching Methods and Materials
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Fundamental Issues in Linguistics
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Field Method
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Field Method: Thao Studies
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Field Method: Paiwan Studies
Area to be determined by the 
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instructor
Miscellaneous
Corpus Linguistics
Introduction to Formosan Languages
Seminar on Taiwan Sign Language
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Introduction to Sign Language Research
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Seminar on Child Language Acquisition
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Introduction to Child Language Acquisition
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Seminar on Formosan Languages
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Statistics in Linguistic Studies
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Advanced Statistics