On this page you will find lecture PowerPoint slides in .pdf. They will be posted here after every class for your reference.
Lecture 1 Part I: Syllabus and other administrivia
Lecture 1 Part II: What do linguists do? Some linguistic puzzles and their solutions
Lecture 2: Human vs. animal communication systems
Lecture 3: Human vs. animal communication cont. Discussion of Myth 12.
Lecture 5: Language and the brain. Introducing morphology.
Lecture 8: Word-formation cont.; Morphological typology; Discussion of Myth 10.
Lecture 9: Introducing syntax: Constituency.
Lecture 10: Syntax cont.: Phrase structure rules. Tree-drawing fun.
Lecture 11: Syntax cont.: Recursiveness. Ambiguity. Word order variation. Parameters.
Lecture 12: Syntax cont.: Islands. Phonetics: Consonants.
Lecture 13: Phonetics cont.: Consonants and Vowels
Lecture 15: Suprasegmentals; Phonology: Introducing phonemes and allophones.
Lecture 16: Phonological analysis and phonological rules
Lecture 17: Sociolinguistics 1: Dialectal variation
Lecture 18: Sociolinguistics 2: Language attitudes and ideologies
Lecture 19: Sociolinguistics 3: Language and ethnicity: The case of African American English
Lecture 20: Language and gender; Language change 1
Lecture 21: Language change 2: Morphological, syntactic, and phonological
Lecture 22: Language change 3: Historical linguistics
Lecture 23: Pidgins and creoles
Lecture 24: Language and thought; Language endangerment. Photo and Farewell!