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Linguistics 101: Introduction to Linguistics

CL306, TR 1:30-2:45, Fall 2009

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Instructor: Hahn Koo
Office hours: TR 3-5:30 (or by appointment)
Office location: Clark Hall 485 (408.924.7093)
Syllabus (a.k.a greensheet): [pdf]

Textbook:
Additional materials:

Schedule (subject to change with fair notice):

DateTopicReading
8/25, 8/27 Introduction: Descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar, Animal "languages" Chapter 1
9/1, 9/3 Phonetics: Sounds of English, IPA Chapter 6
9/8, 9/10 Phonetics: IPA(cont'd), Articulatory Phonetics Chapter 6
9/15, 9/17 Phonology: Phonemes, Distinctive features Chapter 7
9/22, 9/24 Phonology: Phonological rules, Sound change Chapters 7, 11 (pp. 464~467)
9/29 Phonology: Phonotactics, Prosody Chapter 7
10/1 MID-TERM #1 -
10/6, 10/8 Morphology: Morphemes, Word formation, Word coinage Chapter 3
10/13, 10/15 Syntax: Syntactic constituents and categories, Phrase structure rules Chapter 4
10/20, 10/22 Syntax: Heads and complements, Sentence relatedness, Principles and Parameters Chapter 4
10/27, 10/29 Semantics: Compositional semantics, Argument structure Chapter 5
11/3 MID-TERM #2 -
11/5 Lexical semantics Chapter 5
11/10 Pragmatics Chapter 5
11/12 No CLASS - Koo presenting at a conference -
11/17, 11/19 Psycholinguistics and language acquisition: Language and Brain, First language acquisition Chapters 2, 8
11/24 Psycholinguistics and language acquisition: Bilingualistm and SLA Chapter 8
12/1, 12/3 Computational Linguistics: ASR, TTS, IR, MT Chapter 9
12/15 FINAL EXAM: 12-15 P.M. ~ 2:30 P.M. -


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