Again due to a conflict with a faculty meeting, I will need to hold my Wednesday office hours from 12-1pm rather than at their normal time.

In fact, this is going to happen again next week, and then probably again in November, and maybe one more time after that. It starts to call into question what “normal time” really means for these Wednesday office hours, but I will just continue to announce them as they happen. If you’re planning way ahead, though, 10/26 will also have abnormal office hours, but those will be 2-3pm.

Homework #2 asks you to look at two sets of sentences, to try to predict where the pitch accents fall. Here are where it seems to me that they fall, if that is helpful.

Due to a faculty meeting on Wednesday 9/21, I will need to have my office hours from 12-1pm instead of their usual 4-5pm time.

I anticipate that this may happen a couple more times during the semester as well, when CAS faculty meetings arise. I will try to announce these changes in advance here.

Hi everyone. Ok, I’ve posted the notes I made, such as they are, that I used today. You can find them on the “schedule” page (click “Schedule” above). I will generally put those there.

Also, a note about the readings: Clicking above will lead you to the “readings page.” You need a password to see that page, which I gave in class (email me if you need it or need it again). Once on that page: read the bit in red up at the top. That will tell you how to proceed to the next step in the quest for the upcoming readings. (There is one more step beyond just knowing the password to the readings page.)

I think that’s it. See you Thursday.

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 or planned) major/minors?

What languages (other than English) do you know, and how well?

What language(s) did you grow up speaking?

Do you prefer to be called something other than what I see in the class list?¹

Anything else that seems relevant?

¹Within reason, that is. “Your Excellence” is not a valid answer here.

This is where the LX518 Focus site will be. Right now it is basically a copy of the site from last time it was taught, but updates are coming.