Thursday 6:00-9:10
Williams Hall, Room 27

Instructor:	Maciej Baranowski
Office:	Linguistics Laboratory 3550 Market St. Suite 250 Philadelphia, PA 19104 tel. (215) 898-4912
Office hours:	by appointment

email address:

maciej at babel.ling.upenn.edu

Final grade: 25% mid-term exam, 25% final exam, 40% homework assignments, 10% class participation

 

TEXTS:
	Language Files. 8th Edition. 2001. Columbus: Ohio State U. Press. [=LF]
	Pinker, Steven. 1994. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Reprinted in 2000 by HarperCollins. [=P] available at the Penn Bookstore, 36th St. & Walnut St.; a copy of each is on reserve at Rosengarten

 
 

Date	Topic
11 Sep	Introduction and background concepts LF 1.1-1.3; P ch.1 & ch.2 Homework assignment
18 Sep	Phonetics: the sounds of language  LF 3.1-3.7; P ch.6 Homework assignment Useful links: Sounds from Peter Ladefoged's book Vowels and Consonants Sounds from Peter Ladefoged's book A Course in Phonetics International Phonetic Association
25 Sep	Phonology: the structure and organization of sound LF 4.1-4.3; Homework assignment
2 Oct	Morphology: words and word formation P ch.5; LF 5.1-5.5; Homework assignment
9 Oct	Review of phonetics and phonology Syntax: the theory of grammar and how sentences are formed LF 6.1-6.7; P ch.4
16 Oct	Syntax continued Homework assignment
23 Oct	Mid-term exam Semantics and pragmatics: the meanings of words and sentences P ch.7; LF 7.1-8.5
30 Oct	Sociolinguistics: language variation, language attitudes, language & identity LF 10.1-10.3, 10.5-10.9; "The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores" by William Labov Field Project Field Project: coding data
6 Nov	Historical linguistics and language typology: language change; languages of the world P ch.8; LF 12 Homework assignment Dialects of English "The Three Dialects of English" by William Labov Atlas of North American English:  http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonoatlas
13 Nov	Language acquisition: learning to speak LF: 9.2-9.6; P ch.9 Homework assignment
20 Nov	Psycholinguistics: language and the brain P ch.10; LF 9.1, 9.6-9.7 Field Project
27 Nov	Thanksgiving - no class