Although you can print out this schedule, it is likely to change over
the course of the semester. Updates will be posted here and announced in
class.
September
|
| Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
- 4
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- A biological endowment
- Discussion 1
- Prescriptive & descriptive grammar
- Assignment 1
- Read Ch.1; see pages
|
5 |
| 8 |
- 9
- Lecture 2: Introduction
- Languages of the World
- Assignment 2
|
10 |
- 11
- Video
- "Secret of a Wild Child"
- Discussion 2
- How can we help Genie?
|
12 |
| 15 |
- 16
- Lecture 3: Morphology
- Word-building
- Assignment 3
|
17 |
- 18
- Lecture 4: Morphology
- Word-structure
- Discussion 3
|
19 |
| 22 |
- 23
- Lecture 5: Syntax
- Constituent structure
- Assignment 4
- Structural tests
|
24 |
- 25
- Lecture 6: Syntax
- Head-first, head-last
- Discussion 4
|
26 |
| 29 |
- 30
- Lecture 7: Syntax
- Lexical knowledge
|
|
|
|
October
|
| Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| |
|
1 |
- 2
- Lecture 8: Syntax
- Moving violations
- Discussion 5
- Review for test
|
3 |
| 6 |
- 7
- Test 1
|
8 |
- 9
- Lecture 9: Semantics
- Word meaning
- Discussion 6
|
10 |
| 13 |
- 14
- Lecture 10: Semantics
- Language and thought: asking for directions in Warlpiri
|
15 |
- 16
- Lecture 11: Semantics
- Implicatures: McLibel!
- Discussion 7
|
17 |
| 20 |
- 21
- Lecture 12: Phonetics
- Articulation
|
22 |
- 23
- Lecture 13: Phonetics
- Transcription
- Discussion 8
|
24 |
| 27 |
- 28
- Lecture 14: Phonetics
- Accent 1: voiceprints
|
29 |
- 30
- Lecture 15: Phonology
- Sound changes
- Discussion 9
|
31 |
Schedule