Lecture PowerPoint Slides will be posted here regularly for your reference.
Lecture 1 (Part I): Course description, objectives, and requirements (administrative matters)
Lecture 1 (Part II): What is linguistics? What is language?
Lecture 2: Human language design features
Lecture 3: Language and intelligence; language acquisition; critical period?
Lecture 4: Language and the brain
Lecture 5: Poverty of the stimulus argument; Phonetics: Consonants
Lecture 6: Nonpulmonic consonants; Vowels; Phonetic transcription
Lecture 8: ‘Everyone has an accent except me;’ structure of syllables; prosodic features
Lecture 9: Phonology: introducing phonemes and allophones; the phonemic analysis algorithm
Lecture 10: Representing phonological knowledge in terms of formal rules
Lecture 11: Introducing morphology
Lecture 12: Morphology problems; word-formation processes; morphological typology
Lecture 13: Morphological typology cont., intro to syntax
Lecture 15: Transformations; Parameters
Lecture 16: Sociolinguistics: Dialectal variation and studying language attitudes
Lecture 17: Sociolinguistics: Language and ethnicity: The case of African American English
Lecture 18: Guest Lecture by Prof. Gustavo Freire on ‘Investigating Events and Propositions in Child Language.’
Lecture 19: Presentations from Language Myths.
Lecture 20: Language change: lexical, semantic, morphological, and phonological.
Lecture 21:Language change cont.: syntactic change; Reconstruction and Proto-Indo-European.
Lecture 22:Reconstruction cont.; Pidgins and creoles
Lecture 23: Pidgins and creoles cont.; language and thought revisited.