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- First Class – course outline, evaluation
& all other administrative issues
- Lecture topic: How we speak and hear language
Readings: F&R chapter 6: Phonetics –
Spelling & Speech
ADFH chapter 3:Phonetics – The Representation
of Speech Sounds (pg58-60)
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| Week 2:
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• Phonetics:
The Sounds of Language
The sound producing system (lungs, vocal cords,
tongue, lips etc)
Readings: F&R chapter 6: Phonetics –
Articulatory Phonetics
ADFH chapter 3:Phonetics – Some Background
Concepts (pg53-58)
• Lecture topic: Consonant Articulation:
Place and Manner
Readings: F& R chapter 6: Phonetics –
Articulatory Phonetics, Consonants
Or one of the following:
Language File 3.2: Articulation & Description
of English Cons.
RABCS chapter 2: Sounds & Suprasegmentals-Consonants
(pg.39-45)
ADFH chapter 3:Phonetics – The Consonants
of American English (pg.60-66)
Ashby chapter 7: Consonant Description (pg.52-59)
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| Week 3: |
• Lecture topic:
Vowel Articulation
Readings: F& R chapter 6: Phonetics - Vowels
Or one of the following:
Language File 3.3: Articulation & Description
of Eng. Vowels
RABCS chapter 2: Sounds & Suprasegmentals-Consonants
(pg.31-39)
ADFH chapter 3:Phonetics – The Vowels of
American English (pg. 66-70)
Ashby chapter 4: More about vowels (pg. 22-29)
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Week 4:
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• Lecture topic:
Phonetic Transcription
Readings: F & R chapter 6: Phonetics –
Phonetic Symbols
Or one of the following:
Language File 3.1: The Sounds of Speech –
Phonetic Symbols
ADFH chapter 3:Phonetics – Phonetic &
Phonemic Representation (pg. 77-80)
Ashby chapter 8: IPA Alphabet (pg60-65)
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| Week 5: |
Phonology: The Function
and Patterning of Sound
• Lecture topic: Phonology – definition;
phonemes – how to identify them; allophones
Readings: F&R chapter 7: Phonology – Phonemes:
The Phonological Units of Lang.
And Language Files: File 4.1 The Value of Sounds
(pg. 88-90)
And Katamba: Chapter 2: The Phoneme (section 2.1,
pg.16-18)
• Lecture topic: Phonemes & Allophones
– surface vs. underlying level; distribution
Contrastive sounds, minimal pairs, complementary
distribution
Readings: F&R chapter 7: Phonology – Minimal
Pairs & Complementary Distribution
And one of the following:
Language Files: File 4.1 The Value of Sounds (pg.
91-96)
RABCS chapter 5: Phonemes (pg. 84-88)
Katamba: Chapter 2: The Phoneme (section 2.2, pg.22-23)
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| Week 6: |
• Lecture topic: Natural Classes: Classes
and generalization in phonology
Readings: F& R chapter 7: Phonology –
Natural Classes
Obstruents & Sonorants
Or Language File 3.6: Natural Classes (pg. 52-55)
• Lecture topic: Phonological Processes:
assimilation, metathesis, epenthesis and so on
Readings: F& R chapter 7: Phonology –
The rules of Phonology
Or one of the following:
Language File 4.2: Phonological Rules (pg.97-101)
Katamba Chapter 5 (sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (pg.
79-93)
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| Week 7: |
Revision
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| Week 8: |
- Lecture topic: Morphology: The Structure
of Words
Morphemes - bound vs free morphemes, inflection
and derivation
Readings: F&R chapter 3: Morphology- Content
Words & Function Words
Morphemes: The Minimal Units of Meaning, Grammatical
Meaning
And one of the following:
Language Files: File 5.1 Morphemes (pg. 134-136)
RABCS chapter 10: Building Words - morphemes
(pg. 163-171)
ADFH chapter 2: Morphemes and Complex Words
(pg.15-17)
- Lecture topic: Word Formation: affixation,
compounding, coining, etc
Readings: F&R chapter 3: Morphology- Rules
of Word Formation & Word Coinage
Or one of the following:
Language Files: File 5.4 Word Formation Processes
(pg.143-147)
ADFH chapter 2.2 How are new words created?
(pg.21-31)
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| Week 9: |
- Lecture topic: Morphological Typology
Readings: Language File 5.7: Morphological Types
of Languages (pg. 164-168)
Or RABCS chapter 11: Morphology across languages
(pg. 180-190)
- Lecture topic: Morpheme & Allomorphs
- surface vs. underlying level; Morphology and
Phonology
Readings: F&R chapter 3: Morphological Analysis:
Identifying Morphemes
And Language File 5.5: How to Solve Morphology
Problems (pg.148-151)
And RABCS chapter 10: Building Words - allomorphy
(pg. 175-179)
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| Week 10:
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Syntax: The Analysis of Sentence Structure
- Lecture topic: Syntactic Typology & Word
Order
Readings: Language File 6.7: Word Order Typology
(pg. 210-213)
- Lecture topic: Categories and Structure:
grammatical & lexical categories
Readings: Language Files: File 6.2 Lexical Categories
(pg. 177-182)
RABCS chapter 9: Word classes (pg.147-159)
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Week 11:
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| Week 12:
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- Lecture topic: Phrase Structure: heads, specifiers,
complements; replacement & movement tests
Readings: F&R chapter 4: Syntax: Sentence
Structure & Phrase Structure Rules (pg.123-151)
Language Files: File 6.3 Phrasal Categories
(pg. 184-188); File 6.1 Structure & ambiguity
(pg.170-176; File 6.5 Phrase Structure Rules
(pg. 192-203)
ADFH chapter 5: Constituent Structure and Tree
Diagrams (pg.144-150)
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Week 13:
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Lecture Topic: Phrase
Structure (continued), Complex Structure
Reading: RABCS chapter 18: Complex sentences (pg.
285-290)
- Lecture topic: Transformations - surface
vs. underlying level
Readings: F&R chapter 4: Syntax: Transformational
Rules (pg.152-164)
Language File 6.6: Transformations (pg.204-209)
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Week 14:
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Revisions, Answering
exam questions
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