Linguistics L303/L503 — Summer 2012
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis

Instructor:Jonathan North Washington
Office:none
Office hours:by request
Email: jonwashi@indi...
 
Lecture Times:MTWR 10:20-12:10
Classroom:Ballentine (BH) 222
Course website: http://jnw.name/l303
Backup website: http://www.indiana.edu/~l303sum/

Course Syllabus

Research Project

Collecting Errata in Language Files 11

Schedule (updated often)

daydatetopicreadingduetopics and materials
week 1 1 18 June Intro introductions, syllabus, facts and myths,
linguistics and its subfields
2 19 June Intro Files 1.0-1.3
Files 1.4-1.5
Q1 knowing a language, design features [ slides | slides handout ]
animal communication [ handout | video ]
3 20 June Phonetics Files 2.0-2.2.5 Q2 phonetics [ slides | slides handout ]
consonants [ handout | video ]
4 21 June Phonetics Files 2.3-2.4
File 2.6
Q3 vowels [ slides | slides handout ]
acoustic analysis [ praat intro | exercises ]
week 2 5 25 June Phonetics transcription [ exercises ]
[ blank vowel chart | IPA flash cards ]
6 26 June Phonology Files 3.0-3.2 Q4, PS1 phonological features, phonemes and allophones
[ slides | slides handout | exercises ]
7 27 June Phonology Files 3.3-3.3.3 idea write-up Phonological processes [ exercises ]
8 28 June Phonology File 3.5 Q5 Phonological rules [ slides | slides handout ]
week 3 9 2 July Phonology File 3.3.4 Opacity, phonological rule interaction
Child phonology [ combined handout ]
10 3 July Phonology PS2 Conspiracies, Optimality Theory
4 July vacation
11 5 July review article selection midterm study guide
week 4 12 9 July midterm
13 10 July Morphology Files 4.0-4.1 Q6 words and word formation
[ slides | slides handout | exercises ]
14 11 July Morphology File 4.2 Q7 morphological processes
15 12 July Morphology Files 4.3-4.4 Q8, article review morphological types of languages
morphological structure
week 5 16 16 July Morphology File 4.5 PS3 morphological analysis [ slides | slides handout ]
17 17 July Syntax Files 5.0-5.2 Q9 syntactic properties
[ slides | slides handout ]
18 18 July Syntax Files 5.3-5.4 Q10 constituency, categories, ambiguity
19 19 July Syntax File 5.5 rough draft creating a grammar
week 6 20 23 July Socio
Historical
Files 10.0-10.1, 10.4.2
Files 13.2, 13.3.3
Q11, PS4 language variation
language relatedness
21 24 July presentations
review
presentation final exam study guide
22 25 July presentations
review, evals
final draft
23 26 July final