UPDATED: Reading for M 10/22: Jackendoff, Chap. 9; Lenhoff et al. 1997

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 17 October 2012, 9:31 am

The following readings were originally assigned for Friday 10/19, but since we are running about a day behind schedule, they should now be completed for next Monday 10/22 (the latter reading can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): Chapter 9 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind, and Lenhoff, Howard M., Paul P. …

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Reading for M 10/15 & W 10/17: Jackendoff, Chap. 8; Eimas 1985

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 12 October 2012, 3:58 pm

For next Monday 10/15 and Wednesday 10/17, please read the following (the latter can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): Chapter 8 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind, and Eimas, Peter D. 1985. The perception of speech in early infancy. Scientific American 252(1): 46-52.

Information Regarding In-Class Quiz #2 and Office Hours

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 5 October 2012, 2:41 pm

Your second in-class quiz will be on Friday, October 12. The basic format of the quiz will be just like the first one: a handful of short-essay responses, requiring a paragraph or so of discussion, as well as a longer essay response. It will cover the following topics, which we have encountered in class and …

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Reading for Tu 10/9 & W 10/10: Baker, Chaps. 1-3; Chomsky excerpts #2

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 5 October 2012, 7:58 am

For next Tuesday 10/9 and Wednesday 10/10, please read the following (the latter can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): 1. Chapters 1-3 of The Atoms of Language, by Mark Baker. 2. Another batch of excerpts from Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and Politics. (Carlos P. Otero, ed.) Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Readings for W 10/3 & F 10/5: Anderson & Lightfoot (1999); Chomsky excerpts

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 27 September 2012, 6:26 pm

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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UPDATED: Reading for F 9/21 & W 9/26: Jackendoff, Chaps. 4-5; Reading for F 9/28 & M 10/1: Jackendoff, Chap. 6

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 17 September 2012, 7:32 am

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

Reading for M 9/17: Pullum (1999)

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 14 September 2012, 9:25 am

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.

Reading for F 9/14: Simon (1980); Language Myths #12

Posted by Peter Alrenga on 12 September 2012, 7:49 am

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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