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consciousness

Picture: Robert Fudd: Consciousness. 17th century

Schedule with weekly readings

Readings, handouts, slides

 

 

 

Guidelines for oral presentations

The presentations will be in the form of a 10-minute slide presentation. Florian sent you a style sheet that you can use with whatever word processor you usually use. Please prepare the presentation according to the style sheet and send it to both of us 1 week ahead of your presentation. You'll get some feedback at that point and can still make changes. Florian will then assemble the presentations for each session into a single slide show that will be projected from my laptop. Florian needs the final version of your slides 48 hours ahead of time. The last take-home will include questions relating to the mini-conference.

  1. The intended audience are your classmates. They should understand what you are saying.
  2. Present the relevant data and state the puzzle they pose.
  3. Relate the puzzle to something you have read.
  4. Present your strategy towards elucidating the puzzle (make progress towards solving it).
  5. Present your questionnaire or experimental design.
  6. If already available, present the results of your investigation and discuss possible conclusions. If data are not yet available, talk about expected results and/or difficulties.

Tips from MIT Professor Patrick Winston on how to speak (video).

 

this week: mini-conference

We will listen to at least ten presentations this week:

Monday: Compositionality in Compounds; Constructing compounds: a crosslinguistic comparison; Shit's all around us; German doch.

Wednesday: What drives metonomy?; Processing structural ambiguities; On bearing and using arms; On plinking.

Friday: "each" and "every". Represented speech in Sherlock Holmes: parentheticals.

If you are interested in a presenter's slides, please contact them directly.

 

take-home exam 4 was given out early

To make planning easier for you, I gave out take-home exam 4 last Friday. This gives you more consultation times, too. The take-home is due at the beginning of class on May 12, together with your final project report. Grades will be entered on May 14.

 

preparing for life after your presentation

The next step after your presentation is to complete your project (run your experiment, test your questionnaire, work out your analysis) and prepare the final project report. Consultations continue to be highly recommended. The project report should be (at least) five typed pages of prose, plus appendices containing e.g. all experimental materials used, the questionnaire, relevant tables with results, additional data, computations, etc. Don't forget the bibliography. You are welcome to show us a draft of your paper. The paper is due on May 12 at the beginning of class. I cannot give any extensions because I am leaving the country on May 15. Even if you are working in a group, the paper has to be your own individual work. The paper has to be specifically written for this class. If you have written or will write a related paper for another class, add an appendix describing in what way the paper submitted for this class is different. The UMass Academic Honesty Policy applies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008  angelika kratzer, department of linguistics, university of massachusetts at amherst