{"id":236,"date":"2008-11-05T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blog\/lx522f08\/2008\/11\/05\/demoting-hw6\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:40:39","slug":"demoting-hw6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/2008\/11\/05\/demoting-hw6\/","title":{"rendered":"Demoting HW6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about homework 6 some more, a couple of things:<\/p>\n<p>First, concerning the features of <em>elect<\/em>, there was supposed to be a [<em>u<\/em>N*] feature there. I have posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/linguistics\/UG\/course\/lx522-f08\/keys\/lx522f08-7-hw6-key-v1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">an updated key<\/a> to reflect this (but you should mark your paper copy). I will record a score 1 point higher for everyone across the board, because the informal polling suggested that it was pretty much universally marked off.<\/p>\n<p>Second, homework 6 was simply too short, and I don&#8217;t think holding it to the 35-point scale that the previous homeworks were on makes much sense. I will therefore cut it in half, making it worth 17.5 points.<\/p>\n<p>So, to summarize: To get your actual score, take the number written on your homework, add one, divide by two, and consider it to be out of 17.5.<\/p>\n<p>When I do the computation at the end, homework 6 will only be dropped (if it has the lowest percentage score) where the outcome is better than dropping the second-lowest, since homework 6 is now worth less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about homework 6 some more, a couple of things: First, concerning the features of elect, there was supposed to be a [uN*] feature there. I have posted an updated key to reflect this (but you should mark your paper copy). I will record a score 1 point higher for everyone across the board, because &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/2008\/11\/05\/demoting-hw6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Demoting HW6&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-homework-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}