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Lecture 1: Part I (syllabus) and Part II (introduction)
Lecture 2: Introduction to language and linguistics cont. Communication systems
Lecture 3: Human language vs. animal communication systems
Lecture 4: The biological basis of language. Language and the brain
Lecture 5: Introducing morphology
Lecture 6: Morphology cont.: Morphological structure and analysis
Lecture 7: Morphology cont.: Word formation processes
Lecture 8: Morphological typology. Intro to syntax
Lecture 9: Syntax cont.: Constituency – Phrase structure rules – Trees
Lecture 10: Some tree-drawing fun; recursiveness; ambiguity; cross-linguistic variation in word order (English vs. Japanese)
Lecture 11: Transformations — UG: principles and parameters
Lecture 12: Phonetics: Consonants
Lecture 13: Phonetics cont.: Vowels – transcription
Lecture 14: Presentations on accents. Coarticulation processes
Lecture 15: Syllable structure — Suprasegmentals
Lecture 16: Phonology: phonemes vs. allophones. Phonological rule notation
Lecture 17: Discussion of first language acquisition
Lecture 18: Dialectal variation and language attitudes
Lecture 19: Language and ethnicity: The case of African American English
Lecture 20: Discussion on language and gender
Lecture 21: Language change
Lecture 22: Historical linguistics
Lecture 23: Pidgins and Creoles
Lecture 24: Language and thought