The entry for each week includes links to the lectures (PowerPoint files),
links to the readings in the Web textbook, How Language Works,
and assignments.
The homework and exams will be posted on
Annotate; exact due dates
will be found there.
Links to lectures will often not be available till the morning of the
lecture, but there is no reason for you to access these beforehand.
Readings and homework will normally be posted at least a week in
advance.
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Mon
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Wed
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Week 1
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13 Jan
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15 Jan
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Unit
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Introduction
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Lectures
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Introduction to the course
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What linguists do,
dialects and languages
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Readings
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L103 procedures
L103 coursework
The book
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What linguists do
What linguists don't do
Dialects and languages
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Assignments
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Homework 0
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Week 2
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20 Jan
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22 Jan
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Unit
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MLK Day
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Introduction
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Lectures
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What linguists don't do
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Readings
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Themes
Why study linguistics
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Assignments
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Homework 1
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Week 3
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27 Jan
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29 Jan
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Unit
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Word meaning
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Lectures
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Course themes
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Reference
Word senses and semantic extension
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Readings
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Overview of word meaning
Reference
Categories
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Assignments
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Homework 2
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Week 4
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3 Feb
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5 Feb
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Unit
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Word meaning
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Lectures
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Language differences, dimensions,
and deixis
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Review of meaning
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Readings
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Word senses
Metaphor and metonymy
Deixis
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Language differences
Learning meaning
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Assignments
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Homework 3
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Week 5
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10 Feb
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12 Feb
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Unit
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Word form
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Lectures
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Review of level-1 topics
Phonemes
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Iconicity and vowels (1)
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Readings
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Overview of word forms
Phonemes
Iconicity
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Vowels
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Assignments
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Exam 1
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Week 6
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17 Feb
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19 Feb
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Unit
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Word form
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Lectures
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Iconicity and vowels (cont.)
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Consonants
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Readings
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English consonants
Consonants in other languages
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Assignments
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Homework 4
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Week 7
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24 Feb
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26 Feb
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Unit
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Word form
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Lectures
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Consonants (2)
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Syllables
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Readings
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Syllables
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Assignments
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Homework 5
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Week 8
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3 Mar
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5 Mar
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Unit
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Word form
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Lectures
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Overview of contexts, distribution, allophones, assimilation
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Phonetic contexts
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Readings
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Overview of phonological processes
Phonetic contexts
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Assimilation
Phonological distribution
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Assignments
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Homework 6
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Week 9
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10 Mar
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12 Mar
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Unit
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Word form
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Lectures
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Assimilation
Phonemes and allophones
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Accent and language differences
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Readings
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Learning phonology
Phonological change
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English accents
Phonology in the wild
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Assignments
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Exam 2
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Spring Break
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Week 10
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24 Mar
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26 Mar
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Unit
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Composition
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Lectures
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Attributes, attribution
Noun + noun phrases, ambiguity
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Compositionality and idiomaticity
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Readings
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Overview of composition
Attributes and attribution
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Modification
Compositionality
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Assignments
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Homework 7
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Week 11
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31 Mar
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2 Apr
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Unit
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Sentences
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Lectures
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Phonology briefly revisited
States and events
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Schemas and semantic roles
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Readings
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Overview of sentences
States and events
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Semantic roles and situation schemas
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Assignments
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Make-up exam 1
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Week 12
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7 Apr
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9 Apr
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Unit
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Sentences
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Lectures
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Schemas and semantic roles (cont.)
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Syntactic roles
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Readings
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Constituency
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Subjects
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Assignments
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Homework 8
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Week 13
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14 Apr
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16 Apr
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Unit
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Sentences
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Lectures
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Syntactic roles
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Syntax-semantics mappings,
morphemes
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Readings
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Direct objects
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Adjuncts
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Assignments
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Exam 3
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Homework 9
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Week 14
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21 Apr
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23 Apr
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Unit
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Grammatical categories
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Lectures
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Morphemes
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Review of composition
Grammatical categories
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Readings
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Overview of grammatical categories
Kinds of morphological combination
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Grammatical categories and NPs
Grammatical categories and verbs
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Assignments
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Homework 10
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Week 15
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28 Apr
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30 Apr
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Unit
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Grammatical categories
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Lectures
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Review for Exam 4
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Review for Make-up Exam 2
Grammatical categories
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Readings
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Assignments
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Exam 4
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Make-up exam 2
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Finals Week
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5 May
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7 May
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Level-1 review session
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Final exam, 8-10:00am
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