The graphs (that I handed out copies of in class) from the Beaver et al. (2007) paper are now scanned and on the readings page. Or use can use this direct link to those three pages, the username and password needed to download the file is the same as usual.
Hi everyone. It took me quite some time to write up the “clarifications” I wanted to write for homework 2, but here they are: Homework 2 The essence of the homework is just as it was on the handout, but I added a whole lot of explanation (and fixed a couple of typos), which I …
I don’t really know how a seemingly clear day morphed into one crammed with back-to-back meetings, but probably needless to say, you can now stop checking for the homework I said I was going to post. I’ll finish it and hand it out in class tomorrow.
Here, a bit late, are the specs for the homework relating to the reading that we’re doing for the next class (Krahmer and Swarts, 2008). This pretty much matches what I said in class about it. Write up a short summary of the article, approximately a single-spaced page long, plus or minus a quarter of …
For the undergraduates among you, the University of Ottawa is hosting a conference for Linguistics undergraduates. They have posted a call for papers soliciting abstracts (for 20 minute talks, 1 page abstracts) for undergraduates who are interested in presenting, but the hitch is that the deadline for submissions is today. So, if you happen to …
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Although not really directly related to the topic of the class, there was a short discussion of the recent claims about Pirahã made by Dan Everett, and the response formulated by Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues. The response was to Everett’s article in Current Anthropology, which can be found on Dan Everett’s web …
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The reduplication corpus that Kevin Russell maintains has moved since the paper we’re reading was published. The location as of now is: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/redup-corpus.html Here, you learn, for example, that there what I consider to be a kind of startling number of examples drawn from Dawson’s Creek. If this is job that needs to be done, …
Here’s the first “homework”, just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did it right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. But the questions are: What other Linguistics courses (or related courses) have you taken? What are your (actual …