Linguistics 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory

Fall 2009
Wednesday and Friday 1:25-2:15
Thompson 102
TAs:
Leah Bateman
Discussion Sections 3 & 5
303 South College
577.0792
Office Hours: Monday 3-5


Chloe Gu
Discussion Sections 1 & 7
303 South College
577.0792
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4, Wednesday 11-12

Anisa Schardl
Discussion Sections 4 & 8
303 South College
577.0792
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30

Brian Smith
Discussion Sections 2 & 6
302 South College
Office Hours: Wednesday 12-1, Friday 12-1
Kyle Johnson
124 South College
Office Hours: Wednesday 9-11
545.6840

(optional) Textbook:
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
6th edition
by William O'Grady, John Archibald,
Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller

at

Food for Thought Bookstore
106 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst

Final:
Thursday, December 17
Thompson 102
4:00 PM



1
September 9



September 11
Introduction
Reading: Chapter 1

Articulatory Phonetics
Reading: Chapter 2, 15-37
2 September 16


September 18
The IPA
 
Acoustic Phonetics
3
September 23



September 25
Syllables
Homework 1 Due: answers
Reading: Chapter 3, 83-91

Phonotactics
Lecture Notes: Syllables
4
September 30


October 2
The Phoneme
Homework 2 Due: answers
Reading: Chapter 3, 57-83

Allophonic Processes
5 October 7



October 9
Natural Processes
Homework 3 Due: answers

Features
Handout: Feature Chart
6 October 14




October 16
Features: Allophones and Phonotactic Constraints
Homework 4 Due: answers
Lecture Notes: Coda Constraints

Morphology
Reading: Chapter 4, sections 1-5
7 October 21

October 23
MIDTERM

Derivational Morpohology
Homework 5 Due: answers
8 October 28


October 30
Headedness and Ordering
Syntactic Constituency
9
November 4



November 6
Phrase Structure Rules
Homework 6 Due: answers

Ambiguity
Lecture Notes: Phrase Structure Rules
10 November 11


November 13
Veteran's Day

Review
Homework 7 Due: answers
12 November 18

November 20
MIDTERM

Movement
Lecture Notes: Movement
13 November 25


November 27
Derivations
Homework 8 due


No Class: Thanksgiving
14 December 2

December 4
Constraints

Language Acquisition
15 December 9


December 11
Acquisition of Phonology
Reading: Chapter 11, section 2

Acquisition of Syntax
Reading: Chapter 11, section 5