Fwd: [UCSBADVS] Spring '26: Interested in Lang & Tech? Seats open in SPTEC course LING 104!

[Undergrad Advising Global Studies]

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From: Linguistics Undergraduate Advisor <undergra...@linguistics.ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Subject: [UCSBADVS] Spring '26: Interested in Lang & Tech? Seats open in SPTEC course LING 104!
To: <ucsb...@ltsc.ucsb.edu>

Dear Students,

Spots still open in our UD Speech and Language Technologies (SPTEC) course: LING 104 - Statistical Methods in Linguistics.

If you are a SPTEC major or minor, this course applies to your Area C or D!

LING 104 - Statistical Methods in Linguistics:

 Fundamentals of scientific inquiry and methodology; basics of experimental design, statistical methods (descriptive, analytic, and exploratory) relevant to linguistics.

• Meets on Thursdays from 8am-10:50am. 

Professor Stefan Gries: 

This course is a hands-on introduction to fundamentals of quantitative/statistical methodology in linguistics. It is based on the third edition of my textbook Statistics for linguistics with R: a practical introduction (2021). We begin by looking at a few basic notions such as variables and hypotheses, familiarize ourselves with how data from experiments and corpora should be set up for subsequent statistical evaluation, and discuss the logic of quantitative studies using the null-hypothesis falsification approach. Then, we are concerned with a variety of descriptive graphs and statistics for frequency data, averages, dispersions, and correlations. The largest part is concerned with a variety of statistical tests: distribution fitting tests, tests for independence, and tests for differences for frequencies, means, dispersions, and correlations. We end with a small primer for the kind of multifactorial methods that are the subject of Ling 105. We use the open source software tool R .

• The prerequisite for this course is LING 102 OR the consent of the instructor.
• Interested? But haven't taken LING 102 yet? Reach out to Professor Gries! 

Best,

Undergraduate Advising LING Advising

Department of Linguistics

South Hall Administrative Support Center (SASC)