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Lecture 1: Administriva; What is linguistics? What is language? Design features of human language.

Lecture 2: Human language vs. animal communication systems. The innateness hypothesis. The poverty of the stimulus argument.

Lecture 3: The biological basis of language; language and the brain.

Lecture 4: Prescriptivism vs. descriptivism; main subfileds in linguistics; phonetics.

Lecture 5: Consonants cont., Vowels.

Lecture 6: Coarticulation; syllable structure; prosodic features

Lecture 7: Prosodic features cont.; Phonology: Phonemes vs. allophones

Lecture 8: Solving Phonology problems; Phonological rules

Lecture 9: Morphology

Lecture 10: Word-formation processes; morphological typology

Lecture 11: More on morphological typology; some visual and linguistic puzzles

Lecture 12: Introduction to syntax: constituency; and heads, complements and specifiers; phrase structure rules.

Lecture 13: Syntactic structures: accounting for grammaticality, recursiveness, ambiguity and sentence relatedness; introdcuing transformations

Lecture 14: Syntax cont.: Why do languages differ syntactically? Introducing parameters.

Lecture 15: Syntax cont.: Islands; Binding; language acquisition

Lecture 16: Discussion of readings from Language Myths

Lecture 17: Sociolinguistics: Dialectal variation

Lecture 18: Discussion of readings from Language Myths

Lecture 19: One final Language Myth; continuing with sociolinguistic variation: Language and ethnicity

Lecture 20: Attitudes towards AAE in the classroom; ways to overcome challenges; Labov and Nichols studies; further aspects of sociolinguistic variation.

Lecture 21: Language change: lexical, semantic, morphological, syntactic, and phonological

Lecture 22: Causes of language change; Historical linguistics and reconstruction

Lecture 23: Reconstruction exercises; language creation: pidgins and creoles

Lecture 24: Cross-creole similarities; decreolization; language and thought revisited; language endangerment and preservation.



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