Introduction to Linguistics for IT Students
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
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| NI-LNG | ZK | 2 | 2P | Czech |
- Course guarantor:
- Václav Cvrček
- Lecturer:
- Václav Cvrček
- Tutor:
- Supervisor:
- Department of Software Engineering
- Synopsis:
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This one-semester course should provide a gentle introduction to linguistics and language research for students majoring in IT and programming. Students get acquainted with basic concepts used in language descriptions as well as major theories influencing the current mainstream in linguistics. Specific attention will be paid to empirical and quantitative methods in linguistics, including the use of language corpora, and to specific issues of Czech.
- Requirements:
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None.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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Topics covered:
1. Language, communication and linguistics brief history and current trends in linguistics
2. Language corpora and their compilation methods, problems, use cases
3. Language system, structure, layers, linguistic disciplines and units
4. Phonetics sound, phoneme, morphoneme, syllable, speech segment; specifics of spoken communication
5. Graphemics; Morphology word structure, morpheme, word formation, productivity; language variability
6. Morphology (flective) grammatical categories of Czech words
7. Lexicon and vocabulary word and lexeme, semantic relations of units within lexicon; types of dictionaries
8. Lexicon and vocabulary multi-word expressions (collocations) and phraseology; onomastics
9. Syntax and its limitations sentence structure and syntagmatics, context analysis
10. Text, style and discourse basic quantitative characteristics of text and language, corpus-based register studies, corpus-assisted discourse analysis
11. Czech in various comparisons history of Czech, typological and genetic classification of Czech
12. Sociolinguistic aspects of Czech stratification, dialects, codification and prescription (vs. description)
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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There are not exercises.
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- Study materials:
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- Further information:
- https://moodle-vyuka.cvut.cz/course/view.php?id=6937
- Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:
- Time-table is not available yet
- Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri - The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Master specialization Computer Security, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Design and Programming of Embedded Systems, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Systems and Networks, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Management Informatics, in Czech, 2020 (compulsory elective course, elective course)
- Master specialization Software Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (compulsory elective course, elective course)
- Master specialization System Programming, in Czech, version from 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Web Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Knowledge Engineering, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2020 (elective course)
- Mgr. programme, for the phase of study without specialisation, ver. for 2020 and higher (elective course)
- Study plan for Ukrainian refugees (elective course)
- Master specialization System Programming, in Czech, version from 2023 (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2023 (elective course)
- Mgr. programe Applied informatics (code ANIE) for the phase of study without specialization (elective course)
- Master specialization Embedded systems (elective course)
- Master specialization Business Informatics, 2026 (elective course)
- Master specialization Software Engineering (elective course)
- Master specialization Web Engineering (elective course)
- Master specialization Visual computing and Game design (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Security, in Czech, 2026 (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Systems and Networks, in Czech, 2026 (elective course)
- Master specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2026 (elective course)
- Master specialization Programming Languages, in Czech, 2026 (elective course)
- Master specialization Artificial Intelligence, in Czech, 2026 (elective course)
- Master programme, for the phase of study without specialisation, ver. for 2026 and higher (elective course)