I just realized that I keep forgetting to say anything about this in class. I’ll still try to do so. However: you may want to work together with other students in the class on the homework assignments. Great! I definitely encourage that. Not only does it make the experience slightly more fun, but it also …
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I’m planning on printing and providing today’s slides as a handout. I’ve posted it already, but no need for you to print it for yourself, I’ll bring them.
David Adger has a list of errata for the textbook that used to be online (now it seems to be only accessible via archive.org—thanks archive.org!). It might be worth keeping this onhand when you are reading, and I’ll try to announce any other relevant errors here as they come up. Let me know if you …
There’s an interesting video on YouTube of Noam Chomsky talking about the current basic understanding of what “Universal Grammar” is. It’s good—in fact, I’m considering making it part of your homework to watch it. But if you want to watch it anyway ahead of time, here is a link to it. Authors@Google talk (YouTube) (closed …
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.
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 …