Calendar. Below is a calendar with tentative topics for the semester and links to notes and reading assignments.  I will update it as it works out; shaded boxes have not been updated and are still tentative.  Assignments are available via oncourse, and will be posted by Thursday of the week before it is due.

 

Week

Thursday

Friday

Readings

1

23

Introduction

Speech & Language

24

Introduction

Observation & Theory

 

Files 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, & 1.5

 

2

30

Phonetics & Phonology

Acoustics

 Waveforms to work with in class

Also: if you want to work with your own acoustic representations, check out on set of software Tools here.

31

Phonetics & Phonology

Modeling & Representation

 

Files 2.0, & 2.6.1 – 2.6.3

3

6

Phonetics & Phonology

Categorization

7

Phonetics & Phonology

Information Reduction & Transcription

Also, if you want to check out some of the websites on articulatory recording, here are a few

Electropalatography,

X-ray Cinematography.

Microbeam System.

 

 

Files 2.2, 2.3, &2.6.3

4

13

Phonetics & Phonology

Transcribing

14

Phonetics & Phonology

More of Vowels &

The Alphabetic Model

 

File 2.4

5

20

Phonetics & Phonology

Combinatorics, and Constraints

21 – QUIZ #1

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemes & Distributional Analysis

 

Files 3.1.1, 3.2, &3.3

6

27

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemic Analysis

28

Phonetics & Phonology

Cross-language Comparison

Also: accented speech samples can be gotten here.

 

File 3.5

7

4

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemic Systems

5

Phonetics & Phonology

Orthographic Systems

Links to examples of various types of writing systems are below:

Logographic: Chinese

Syllabary: Cherokee

Alphabetic: Phoenecian

Analytic Alphabet: Korean

????: English

 

Files 3.1.3, 15.2 & 15.3

8

11

Morphology & Syntax

Morphemic Analysis

FALL BREAK

 

Files 4.0, 4.1, & 4.5

9

18

Morphology & Syntax

Morphological Derivations

 

19

EXAM

What’s on Mid-term?

 

Files 4.2 & 4.4

10

25

Morphology & Syntax

Morpho-syntactic Frames

26

Morphology & Syntax

Constituency

 

Files 5.1 5.2.2, & 5.4

11

1

Syntax  Lab

Trees, Parsing  & Generation

2

Morphology & Syntax

Hierarchical Structure

 

File 5.3

12

8

Syntax  Lab

Writing Rules

9 – QUIZ #2

Morphology & Syntax

Phrase Structure Grammars

 

File 5.5

13

15

Syntax  Lab

Recursion & Embedding

16

Morphology & Syntax

 Syntactic Relations, Agreement & Government

Extra Examples

 

 

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

 

 

 

14

29

Syntax  Lab

Agreement & Government

30

Morphology & Syntax

A Tour of Languages

Morphology & Syntax

English

Versus other systems:

Finnish Rules

Japanese Rules

Korean Rules

Mandarin Chinese

Cantonese

Modern Hebrew

English Nu

 

File 4.3

15

6

Review 

7

Morphology & Syntax

Grammatical Models

 

 

 

12th:  Final Exam: 12:30 PM

In BH103