What's on Your Syllabus
No. | Date | Content | Reading | Homework |
1. | 9/22 | Introduction | Nash
1
Yule 3 |
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2. | 9/29 | |||
3. | 10/6 | [Ex
1]
[Preliminary reports due] |
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4. | 10/13 | Psycholinguistics | Nash
2
Yule 16 |
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5. | 10/20 | |||
6. | 10/27 | [Ex 2] | ||
7. | 11/3 | |||
11/10 | MIDTERM EXAM | |||
8. | 11/17 | Sociolinguistics | Nash
3
Yule 20 & 21 |
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9. | 11/24 | |||
10. | 12/1 | |||
11. | 12/8 | [Reports] | ||
12. | 12/15 | Phonetics & Phonology | Nash
4
Yule 5 & 6 |
[Ex 3: Yule 236A] |
13. | 12/22 | |||
14. | 12/29 | [Ex 4] | ||
15. | 1/5 | Evaluation | ||
1/12 | FINAL EXAM |
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Midterm Exam | 25% |
Final Exam | 25% |
Report (in small groups) | 30% |
Exercises | 15% |
Question of the Week | 5% |
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To learn:
what linguistics is
some basic knowledge in this field
to think about language as a thing, apart from its everyday uses and meanings, so that we can understand what those uses and meanings are, and how they are achieved
to examine our own beliefs about language, languages, and speakers
to observe, and to analyze, and to write and talk about our observations and analyses
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Nash, Thomas. Discovering Language: An Introduction to Linguistics for Chinese Students. Taipei: The Crane, 1986.
Yule, George. The Study of Language (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
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Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
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