Lecture Powerpoint Slides will be posted here regularly for your reference.

Lecture 1: Introduction; Administrivia; "design features" of human language.

Lecture 2: Design features cont.

Lecture 3: Biological basis for language; Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument.

Lecture 4: More evidence for the biological basis for language; prescriptivism vs. descriptivism; goals of linguistic theory

Lecture 5: Phonetics: Consonants

Lecture 6: Phonetics cont.: Vowels; processes of coarticulation

Lecture 7: Processes of coarticulation; syllabue structure; prosodies (aka suprasegmentals)

Lecture 8: Phonology: phonemes vs. allophones; phonological rules.

Lecture 9: Phonological rules

Lecture 10: Morphology

Lecture 11: Word-formation processes; morphological typology

Lecture 12: English plural allomorphy; Turkish Vowel Harmony; and morphological typology cont.

Lecture 13: Introduction to Syntax

Lecture 14: Syntax cont.: Phrase structure grammar.

Lecture 15: Syntax cont.: Transformations; Principles and Parameters; head directionality

Lecture 16: Syntax cont.: More on word order variation; constraints on wh-movement (Islands); falsifying UG and child language

Lecture 17: The case of Chtristopher, the polyglot savant; the syntax and semantics of coreference in human language; experimental evidence from child language

Lecture 18: Sociolinguistics: The language-dialect distinction; variables affecting dialectal variation; examples of dialectal variation.

Lecture 19: Sociolinguistics cont.: Language attitudes; language and ethnicity (African American English); standard vs. nonstandard dialects; situation-based linguistic variation (Styles)

Lecture 20: Sociolinguistics cont.: Slang, code-switching, language and gender. Language Change: Lexical change, semantic change, and morphological change.

Lecture 21: Language change cont.: Syntactic change and phonological change; introduction to Historical linguistics and reconstruction

Lecture 22: Language change cont. Why do languages change? Also: Language contact: Creating language out of thin air: The case of Pidgins and Creoles

Lecture 23 and 24: LAP presentations

Lecture 24: List of topics covered



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