Instructor: Takahito Shinya
Office: South College 321
Phone: (413) 545-6836
Email: tshinya@linguist.umass.edu
Class times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:15-12:30
Place: Machmer Hall W23
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30-2:30PM or by appointment
Textbook:
There is no textbook for this course. Instead, I will give you lecture notes and chapters from introductory linguistics textbooks as the required readings.
Week 1
Tu 1/31 Syllabus and Chapter 1 Introduction (What is language?)
Th 2/2 What is linguistics?
Week 2
Tu 2/7 Prescriptive vs. descriptive rules, Chapter 2 Morphology (Introduction)
Th 2/9 Hierarchical structure of words, Parts of speech
Week 3
Tu 2/14 Derivational & inflectional morphemes, Allomorphy & morphological processes, Expletive infixation in English
Th 2/16 Word formation processes, Morphological analysis in foreign languages
Week 4
Tu 2/21 NO CLASS! Monday schedule
Th 2/23 Morphology review
Week 5
Tu 2/28 Exam I Morphology Questions and Key
Th 3/2 Chapter 3 Syntax part I (Introduction)
Week 6
Tu 3/7 Noun phrases and constituency
Th 3/9 Verb phrases, prepositional phrases, adjectival and adverbial phrases, and sentences
Week 7
Tu 3/14 Ambiguous sentences Chapter 3 Syntax part II
Th 3/16 Phrase structure rules
Week 8
Tu 3/21 NO CLASS! Spring break!
Th 3/23 NO CLASS! Spring break!
Week 9
Tu 3/28 More on phrase structure rules (rule collapsing and use of "*")
Th 3/30 Chapter 4 Phonetics (Introduction: Speech chain & anatomy of speech organs)
Week 10
Tu 4/4 Airstream mechanisms
Th 4/6 Review for Exam 2 (Syntax)
Week 11
Tu 4/11 Exam 2 Syntax Questions and Key
Th 4/13 Phonation, English consonants
Week 12
Tu 4/18 English vowels, Syllable structure
Th 4/20 Voice onset time, Secondary articulation (HW4 passed out)
Week 13
Tu 4/25 NO CLASS due to Taka's emergency
Th 4/27 Phonology (Introduciton), Phonemes and allophones (HW4 due)
Week 14
Tu 5/2 NO CLASS! Taka's away.
Th 5/4 NO CLASS! Taka's away.
Week 15
Tu 5/9 Contrastive distribution, complementary distribution, free variation (HW5 passed out)
Th 5/11 Phonological rules
Week 16
Tu 5/16 Last class! Wrapping up. (HW5 due. Also Take-home Exam 3 passed out)
Week 17
Tu 5/23 Exam 3 due
Fri 5/26 Reading Report due
Important Dates:
Monday, 2/13 Last day to Add or Drop with no record
Wednesday, 3/29 Last day to drop with 'W'
Additional Materials:
Expletive infixation in English (for the 2/14 class)
Chapter 4 Phonetics (PowerPoint Slides, big file: 6.3MB)
Chapter 4 Phonetics (pdf version)(1.5MB)
Instructions for reading report due Friday, May 26, 2006
Readings:
Reading for Phonology (big file: 7.1MB).
Homework Assignment
| HW#1 pased out on 2/16, due 2/23 | HW#01 Key |
| HW#2 pased out on 3/7, due 3/14 | HW#02 Key |
| HW#3 pased out on 3/16, due 3/30 | HW#03 Key |
| Extra credit Syntax HW pased out on 4/13, due 4/20 | Extra credit Syntax HW Key |
| HW#4 pased out on 4/20 due 4/27 | HW#04 Key |
| HW#5 pased out on 5/9, due 5/16 | HW#05 Key |
| Alternative Phonology HW pased out on 5/21, due 5/26 |