Schedule of topics

August 28. The science of language.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 1, and chapter 2 through section 7 (pages 1-37).

August 31. Speech sounds and their transcription.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 2, section 8 (pages 37-43).

September 2. Suprasegmental features.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 2 from section 9 to the end (pages 43-56).

September 4. Articulation.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 3 through section 3 (pages 56-72).

September 7. Phonemes and allophones.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 3, section 4 (pages 72-83).

September 9. Features.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 3 from section 5 to the end (pages 83-109).

September 11. Syllables; derivational phonology.

September 14 (pause for breath).

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 4 through section 2 (pages 111-122).

September 16. Morphology and derivation.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 4, sections 3 and 4 (pages 123-133).

September 18. Derivation and inflection.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 4 from section 5 to the end (pages 133-149).

September 21. Word creation; tinkering with words.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 5 through section 1 (pages 151-162).

September 23. Parts of speech; phrase-structure grammars.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 5, section 2 (pages 162-167).

September 25. Complementation.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 5 from section 3 to the end (pages 167-200).

September 28. Transformations.

September 30 (pause for breath).

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 6 through section 2 (pages 201-217).

October 2. Semantic relations; lexicalization of concepts.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 6, section 3 (pages 217-228).

October 5. Syntactic ambiguity; anaphora.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 6 from section 4 to the end (pages 228-244).

October 7. Pragmatics.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 7 through section 1 (pages 245-249).

October 9. Language change.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 7, sections 2 and 3 (pages 249-265).

October 12. Changes in phonology and morphology.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 7, sections 4 and 5 (pages 265-272).

October 14. Changes in syntax, lexicon, and semantics.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 7 from section 6 to the end (pages 272-289).

October 16. Language reconstruction.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 8 through section 2 (pages 291-313).

October 26. Language typology.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 8 from section 3 to the end (pages 313-324).

October 28. Genetic classification.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 11 through section 3 (pages 361-375).

October 30. First steps towards language.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 11, sections 4 and 5 (pages 375-385).

November 2. Acquisition of morphology and syntax.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 11 from section 6 to the end (pages 383-397).

November 4. The causes of language acquisition.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 12 through section 1 (pages 399-405).

November 6. Second language acquisition.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 12, sections 2 and 3 (pages 405-424).

November 9. Bridging languages.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 12, from section 4 to the end (pages 424-434).

November 11. Teaching a second language.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 13 through section 1 (pages 435-445).

November 13. Psycholinguistic methods.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 13, section 2 (pages 445-454).

November 16. Human language processing.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 13 from section 3 to the end (pages 454-462).

November 18. Psycholinguistic models.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 15 through section 1 (pages 485-499).

November 20. Sociolinguistics; discourse analysis.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 15 from section 2 to the end (pages 499-529).

November 23. Language variation and social norms.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 16 through section 3 (pages 531-541).

November 25. Writing systems and their history.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 16, section 4 (pages 541-546).

November 30. Non-alphabetic writing systems; Unicode.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 16 from section 5 to the end (pages 546-553).

December 2. Orthography and spelling reform.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 18 through section 3 (pages 587-606).

December 4. Computational linguistics: stemming, tagging, and parsing.

Reading: O'Grady et al., chapter 18 from section 4 to the end (pages 606-626).

December 7. Applications of computational linguistics.

December 9. Review for the final examination.

December 11. The intricacy of linguistic data.

December 17, 9 a.m. Final examination.