LCD 102: Analyzing Language

From the Bulletin: Developing and evaluating hypotheses about linguistic data drawn from a variety of languages in the areas of sound structure (phonology), word structure (morphology), and sentence structure (syntax).

Course Materials

Syllabus

Lectures

Unit 1 (Exam: Thursday 11 June)

Monday 1 June – Class 1

PDF of Lecture

– Official IPA Chart & IPA Chart with Midsagittal Section

– Class Exercises: TajikJapanese & DutchJapanese Braille

Tuesday 2 June – Class 2

– PDF of Lecture 2 (part 1)

– PDF of Lecture 2 (part 2)

Wednesday 3 June – Class 3

– PDF of Lecture 3

Thursday 4 June – Class 4

– PDF of Lecture 4

– Class Exercise: Maori

Monday 8 June – Class 5

 – PDF of Lecture 5

Tuesday 9 June – Class 6

– PDF of Lecture 6

– Class Exercises: HieroglyphicsArmenian

Wednesday 10 June – Class 7

– PDF of Lecture 7

– Class Exercises: Transcription & Minimal Pairs

Unit 2 (Exam: Wednesday 24 June)

Monday 15 June – Class 9

– PDF of Lecture 8

– Class Exercises: English ThetaNahuatl

Tuesday 16 June – Class 10

– PDF of Lecture 9

Wednesday 17 June – Class 11

– PDF of Lecture 10

– Class Exercises: TurkishKiswahili

Thursday 18 June – Class 12

– PDF of Lecture 11

– Class Exercises: Swedish,

Monday 22 June – Lecture 13

– PDF of Lecture 12

– Class Exercises: SamoanIlocanoFinnish

Tuesday 23 June – Lecture 14

Assignments

Unit 1

Assignment No. 1 Due: 4 June 2015

Assignment No. 2 Due: 8 June 2015

Assignment No. 3 Due: 9 June 2015

Assignment No. 4 Due: 10 June 2015

Assignment No. 5 Due: 11 June 2015

 Unit 2

– Assignment No. 6 Due: 16 June 2015

Assignment No. 7 Due: 16 June 2015

– Assignment No. 8 (updated) Due: 17 June 2015

– Assignment No. 9 Due: 18 June 2015

– Assignment no. 10 Due: 24 June 2015

Individual Speech (Due: Wednesday 10 June)

– Speech Guideline

– Handout: Persuasion Speech

– Handout: Persuasive Speech Template

– Speech Rubric

Group Experiment (Due: Monday 22 June)

– Group Project Handout