Your third homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Friday, March 8, at 5pm. Since we do not have a class meeting on Friday 3/8, please submit your assignment either via email, or by delivering a hard copy to my office. (Of course, …
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For next Tuesday (3/5), please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zwicky, Arnold & Geoffrey Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. inflection: English n’t. Language 59: 502-513.
For next Thursday 2/28, please read the following book sections, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Harley, Heidi. 2006. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction, Sections 6.1-6.5 & Section 9.12. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. (Note: for completeness, I’ve gone ahead and posted the entirety of Chapters 6 and 9 from this book. You are only …
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Your second homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, February 21, at the beginning of class. HW2 (due Th 2/21 @ beg. of class)
For next Tuesday (2/19) and Thursday (2/21), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 8 (“English word stress”) & Chap. 9 (“The rhythm of English”). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Here are the handouts from our discussion of your language description assignments from this Thursday. The first provides some more detailed guidance, tips, and suggestions for completing the assignments, while the second provides some sample topics: Language Description Assignments Sample Language Description Topics
For next Tuesday (2/12) and Thursday (2/14), please read the following book chapters, 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.) Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 3.1-3.2 (English …
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For this Thursday 2/7, please read the following book excerpt, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 2.1-2.2 (General introduction to the English syllable). Oxford: Oxford University Press.