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Usama Soltan - nobody@example.net — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:40:04 -0400

This is the (tentative) class-by-class schedule that I envisage for this course. As usual, there will be slight changes here and there as the term unfolds, but it should give you a clear idea on what we intend to cover over the semester. This is also where a lot of the course materials will be uploaded (readings, assignments, exams). It's a convenient way of grouping (almost) everything in one table on a single page. So, check here often.

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

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