Problem sets will be posted on MyCourses and must be submitted on MyCourses. Readings can be found in the coursepack.
| Day | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 1/7 | Movie -- Human Language: Acquiring Language | |||
| F | 1/8 | No class: Hadas is out of town | |||
| M | 1/11 | Introduction & overview | Cruz-Ferreira & Abraham | assignment 1 available | |
| W | 1/13 | Phonetics 1 | Ladefoged | ||
| F | 1/15 | Phonetics 2 | |||
| M | 1/18 | Phonology 1 | Mihalicek & Wilson Ch.3 | assignment 1 due, assignment 2 available | |
| W | 1/20 | Phonology 2 | |||
| F | 1/22 | Conference 1 | |||
| M | 1/25 | Morphology 1 | Rowe & Levine | assignment 2 due, assignment 3 available | |
| W | 1/27 | Morphology 2 | |||
| F | 1/29 | Conference 2 | |||
| M | 2/1 | The mental lexicon | Rowe & Levine | assignment 3 due | |
| W | 2/3 | Writing systems | |||
| F | 2/5 | Conference 3 | |||
| M | 2/8 | Review | |||
| W | 2/10 | Midterm 1 | |||
| F | 2/12 | No conference | |||
| M | 2/15 | Syntax 1 | Fromkin et al. | assignment 4 available | |
| W | 2/17 | Syntax 2 | Mihalicek & Wilson 5.4 | ||
| F | 2/19 | Conference 4 | |||
| M | 2/22 | Syntax 3 | Mihalicek & Wilson 5.5 | ||
| W | 2/24 | Semantics and pragmatics 1 | O’Grady & Archibald | assignment 4 due, assignment 5 available | |
| F | 2/26 | Conference 5 | |||
| M | 3/7 | Semantics and pragmatics 2 | Mihalicek & Wilson 5.5 | ||
| W | 3/9 | Semantics and pragmatics 3 | Parker & Riley | assignment 5 due | |
| F | 3/11 | Conference 6 | |||
| M | 3/14 | Review | |||
| W | 3/16 | Midterm 2 | |||
| F | 3/18 | No conference | |||
| M | 3/21 | Language acquisition 1 | Merrison et al. | assignment 6 available | |
| W | 3/23 | Language acquisition 2 | |||
| F | 3/25 | No conference, Good Friday | |||
| M | 3/28 | No lecture, Easter | |||
| W | 3/30 | Dialects and variation | McGregor | assignment 6 due | |
| F | 4/1 | Conference 7 | |||
| M | 4/4 | Sociolinguistics | |||
| W | 4/6 | Sign languages | |||
| F | 4/8 | Conference 8 | |||
| M | 4/11 | Language myths | |||
| W | 4/13 | Review | |||
| F | 4/15 | Conference 9 |