Introduction to Linguistics
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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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