Thursday 6:00-9:00
Williams Hall, Room 28

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 attendance & participation

 

TEXTS:
	Language Files. 9th Edition. 2004. 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.;

 
 

Date	Topic
9 Sept	Introduction and background concepts LF 1.3-1.4, P ch.1 & ch.2 Homework assignment
16 Sept	Phonetics: the sounds of language  LF 3.1-3.4, 3.7, 3.9-3.11; 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
23 Sept	Acoustic phonetics LF 3.9-3.10 Phonology: the structure and organization of sound LF 4.1-4.4, 4.7; P ch.6 Homework assignment
30 Sept	No class: NWAV 33 conference
7 Oct	Solving phonological problems Morphology: words and word formation P ch.5; LF 5.1-5.5; Homework assignment
14 Oct	Morphology continued Homework assignment
21 Oct	Syntax: the theory of grammar and how sentences are formed LF 6.1-6.5; P ch.4 Practice mid-term; pdf version Homework assignment
28 Oct	Mid-term exam: in class, closed books Semantics and pragmatics: the meanings of words and sentences P ch.7; LF 7.1-7.4; 8.1-8.4 Homework assignment
4 Nov	Sociolinguistics: language variation, language attitudes, language & identity LF 10.1-10.3, 10.7-10.9 "The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores" by William Labov Field Project Homework assignment
11 Nov	Historical linguistics and language typology: language change; languages of the world P ch.8; LF 12.1-12.4; 12.9 Homework assignment Dialects of English Atlas of North American English
18 Nov	Language acquisition: learning to speak LF 9.3-9.6; P ch.9 Dialect acquisition by Jack Chambers (warning: large file! Right-click: save as...) lecture notes Field Project assignment Homework assignment
25 Nov	Thanksgiving - no class
2 Dec	Psycholinguistics: language and the brain P ch.10; LF 9.1-9.2, 9.8-9.9