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Date
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Topics
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Readings
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Assignments
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Feb 13
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The nature of human language
Lecture Slides
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Chap.1
Read Nunberg and Wasow's overview of the field of linguistics
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Questionnaire: Please fill in the questionnaire and send it to me by e-mail before Thursday's class.
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Feb 15
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CLASS CANCELLED
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STAY SAFE!
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Feb 20
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The nature of human language cont.
Lecture Slides
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Chap 17
Artticle on the European starling
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Feb 22
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The nature of human language cont.
Lecture Slides |
Chapters 1/14
Jackendoff's Patterns in the mind: Chapters 1-3
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HW1 assigned
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Feb 27
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Phonetics: Consonants
Lecture Slides
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Chap 2
The IPA chart
Some phonetics fun!
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March 1
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Phonetics cont.: Vowels
Suprasegmentals
Lecture Slides
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Chap 2
International Dialects of English Archive
Interactive saggital Section website
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HW2 assigned
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March 6
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Speech production and coarticulation
Phonology: Phonemes and allophones
Lecture Slides |
Chap 3
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March 8
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Phonology cont.: Phonological rules
Lecture Slides |
Chap 3
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HW3 assigned
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March 13
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Phonology cont.:
Features
Syllable structure
Lecture Slides
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Chap 3
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March 15
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Morphology
Morphemes: Free and bound
Inflectional vs. derivational morphemes
Allomorphs
Lecture slides
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Chap 4
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Midterm assigned
Download the midterm here: .pdf and .doc format
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March 20
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Morphology cont.
Processes of word formation
Morphological typology
Lecture slides
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Chap 4
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March 22
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Semantics: the nature of meaning
Connotation, denotation, extension and intension
Semantic relations among words and sentences
Thematic relations
Lecture slides
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Chap 6
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Midterm due on Friday March 23 by 4:15pm by e-mail or by hand in my office
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March 27
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Spring Break
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Have fun!
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March 29
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Spring Break
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Have fun!
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April 3
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Syntax
Constituency
Phrase structure grammar
"Trees"
Lecture slides
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Chap 5
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April 5
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Syntax cont.
Grammaticality, structural ambiguity, recursiveness
Transformations: I-to-C movement; DO-support; wh-movement.
Lecture slides
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Chap 5
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HW4 assigned
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April 10
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Syntax cont.
Universal Grammar and parametric variation
Lecture slides
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Chap 5: pp. 177-182 |
Pairs for research project and paper topic due
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April 12
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Syntax cont.
VOS/OSV/OVS orders
Constraints on wh-movement: Islands
Binding
Lecture slides |
Chap 6: pp. 225-28
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Watch Part II of the Human Language Series movie
HW5 assigned
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April 17
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First language acquisition
Lecture slides |
Chap 11 |
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April 19
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First language acquisition cont.
Natural sign languages: Phonology, morphology, and syntax
Lecture slides |
Chap 10 |
HW6 assigned
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April 24
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Historical linguistics
Aspects of language change: Lexical, semantic, morphological, syntactic, and phonological
Lecture slides
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Chap 7
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April 26
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Historical linguistics cont.
Reconstruction
Why do languages change?
Lecture slides |
Chap 7 |
HW7 assigned
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May 1
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Language in social contexts cont.
The language-dialect distinction
Regional and social dialectal variation
Lecture slides
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Chap 15 |
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May 3
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Language in social contexts cont.
Debunking some myths about dialectal variation
Lecture slides |
Chap 15 |
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May 8
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Pidgins and Creoles
Lecture slides
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Chap 15 |
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May 10
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Indigenous and endangered languages
Why should we care? And what should we do?
Finale: Course highlights
Lecture slides
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Chap 9
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Paper due
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May 14
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Final Exam assigned
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May 21
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Final Exam due
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