Fall, 2001 Nash/Yuan
Objectives
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.
Schedule
9/18 T Introduction (Nash 1, Yule 3)
9/21 F Pampers Stone
9/25 T Introduction
9/28 F Discussion questions
10/2 T Introduction [Preliminary reports due]
10/5 F Language facts, bilingual questionnaire
10/9 T Psycholinguistics (Nash 2, Yule 16) [EX1]
10/12 F Tongue twisters
10/16 T Psycholinguistics
10/19 F Slips of the tongue
10/23 T Psycholinguistics
10/26 F Discussion questions
10/30 T Psycholinguistics [EX2]
11/2 F Review questions & answers
11/6 T MIDTERM EXAM
11/9 F Sociolinguistics experiment (Nash 3, Yule 20 & 21)
11/13 T Sociolinguistics
11/16
F Video
11/20 T Sociolinguistics
11/23 F Report questions & answers
11/27 T Sociolinguistics
11/30 F Video
12/4 T Sociolinguistics [EX3]
12/7
F Discussion
questions
12/11 T Phonetics & Phonology (Nash 4, Yule 5 & 6)
12/14 F Exercise(s) [REPORTS]
12/18 T Phonetics & Phonology
12/21
F Phonetics & Phonology
12/28 F Phonetics & Phonology
1/4 F Exercise(s) [EX4]
1/8 T Phonetics & Phonology
1/11 F Review questions & answers
1/15 T FINAL EXAM
Grading
Midterm exam 23%
Final exam 23%
Report (in small groups) 25%
Exercises 14%
Participation 9%
Other assignments 6%
Textbooks
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.
Recommended reading
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
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