Lecture Slides

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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