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Week
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Reading Assignment,
Fromkin Chapters
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Part I: THE NATURE OF
HUMAN LANGUAGE.
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homework link
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Sept 12
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I’ll be in France, giving a paper on how
eyebrow movements are correlated to disfluencies (mistakes, restarts,
corrections) in speech, at least for some people.
Instead, you hear an
e-portfolio presentation and Ellen will show a Star Trek episode that’s
part of our joint integrative seminar (assignment due 9/14/05, just 2 days away!)
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homework 1, due Sept 19th
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Sept 19
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What Is Language?
Overview of the structure of Language
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homework 2 due Sept 26th
Directions to Tannen article
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Sept 26
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Brain and Language.
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homework 3 due October 5, 2005
first paper due October 12, 2005
thesis statement tutorial
from Indiana University link
Do Dogs think?
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Part II: GRAMMATICAL
ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE.
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big paper number one:
language and cognition, due Oct 12th (no class on Oct 10th)
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Oct 3
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Morphology:
Words
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homework 4 due Oct 12, 2005 (no class Oct 10th). We'll discuss with Hmwk 5.
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Oct 10
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NO CLASS
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homework 5
also remember your Persepolis assignment for 10/19/05
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Oct 17
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The Sentence Patterns of Language: Sentence Syntax
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homework 6 |
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Oct 24
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The
Meanings of Language: Semantics.
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and, for the LCIS,
Words, Images and Comics assignment for 10/26/05 |
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Oct 31
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Phonetics: The Sounds of
Language.
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homework 7 due 10/31/05 |
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Phonology: The Sound
Patterns of Language. *
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big paper number two:
grammar and speech , due Nov 21th
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Part IV: LANGUAGE AND
SOCIETY.
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Nov 7
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Language
in Society: dialects and in-group speech.
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second paper due November 21, 2005
homework 8 now due 11/14/05
LCIS Moive Analysis please read by 11/9/05
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Nov 14
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Language in Society:
dialects and in-group speech.
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homework9, due Nov 21 |
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Nov 21
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Language History
(optional).
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Nov 28
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Linguistic profiling, forensics and the Great Ebonics Debate
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homework 10, due 12/5/05
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Dec 5
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Sociolinguistics, acculturation and education
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Links to sociolinguistic issues (from 11/28 class)
final paper assignment guidelines
Twilight in Los Angeles, view 1-2 times to discuss 12/9/05 (our last class)
Language Lab policies and location
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final research paper due
on the last day of finals, 12/19/05
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