For Wednesday 10/3 and Friday 10/5, please read the following (both can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): 1.  Anderson, Stephen R. & David W. Lightfoot. 1999. The human language faculty as an organ. Annual Review of Physiology 62: 697-722. Note:  Parts of this article assume a level of linguistic expertise that you will not …

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As I announced in class, there is a small change to our reading schedule: for Friday, 9/21 and Wednesday 9/26, please read Chapters 4-5 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind for Friday 9/28 & Monday 10/1, please read Chapter 6 of the Jackendoff book

For next Monday (9/17), please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Pullum, Geoffrey K. 1999. African American Vernacular English is not Standard English with mistakes. In R. Wheeler (ed.) The Workings of Language, 39-58. Wesport, CT: Praeger.

For this Friday (9/14), please complete the following reading assignments: 1. Simon, John. 1980. ‘The Corruption of English’. In L. Michaels and C. Ricks (eds), The State of the Language, 35-42. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2. Milroy, Lesley. 1998. “Myth #12: Bad Grammar is Slovenly’. In L. Bauer and P. Trudgill (eds), Language Myths, 94-102. London: …

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For next Monday (9/10) and Wednesday (9/12), please read the first three chapters of Patterns in the Mind, by Ray Jackendoff.

For this Friday 9/7, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected; you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.) Fromkin, Victoria A. 2001. Linguistics: The scientific study of human language. In Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic …

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