Linguistics 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory

Spring 2008
Wednesday and Friday 1:25-2:15
Thompson 102
TAs:
Masashi Hashimoto
Discussion Sections 2 & 5
303 South College
577.0792
Office Hours:
Monday 12:20-1:15 & 2:30-3:30

Elena Innes
Discussion Sections 1 & 7
305 South College
577.0793
Office Hours: Thursday 1-3

Pasha Siraj
Discussion Sections 8 & 3
225 South College
Office Hours: Monday 2:30-4:30

Martin Walkow
Discussion Sections 4 & 6
225 South College
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:00
Kyle Johnson
124 South College
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5
545.6840
(optional) Textbook:
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
5th edition
by William O'Grady, John Archibald,
Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller

at

Food for Thought Bookstore
106 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst

extra credit experiment sign ups

Final:
Friday, May 16 at 1:30
in Mahar Auditorium 108



1
January 30



February 1
Introduction
Reading: Chapter 1

Articulatory Phonetics
Reading: Chapter 2, 15-37
2 February 6


February 8
The IPA
 
Acoustic Phonetics
3

February 13




February 15

Syllables
Reading: Chapter 3, 83-91
Homework 1 due

Phonotactics
4
February 20



February 22
The Phoneme
Reading: Chapter 3, 57-83
Homework 2 due

Campus Closed!
5 February 27




February 29
Allophonic Processes

Natural Processes
Homework 3 due
6 March 5



March 7
Features
Homework 4 due

Phonology: Review
7 March 12


March 14
MIDTERM
Morphology
Reading: Chapter 4, sections 1-5
* March 19-21
Spring Break
8 March 26


March 28

Derivational and Inflectional
Headedness and Ordering
9
April 2




April 4
Syntactic Constituency
Reading: Chapter 5, section 1
Homework 5 due

Phrase Structure Rules
10 April 9



April 11
Ambiguity
Homework 6 due

More Ambiguity
12
April 16



April 18
Review
Homework 7 due

MIDERM
13 April 23


April 25
Movement
Derivations
14
April 30



May 2

Constraints 1
Homework 8 due

Constraints 2
15 May 6



May 9
Acquisition of Phonology
Reading: Chapter 11, section 2

Acquisition of Syntax
Reading: Chapter 11, section 5