Linguistics 290: Introduction to Linguistics

CRN 13622

Professor: Spike Gildea

Office: Straub 237, 346-0480
Hours: MW 1-2 or by appointment almost anytime MWF

GTF: Mark Post

Office: Straub 240, 346-5920
Hours: MW 12-1

Text: Patterns of Language: Structure, Variation, Change. Robbins Burling. Academic Press.

Lecture notes for Weeks 6, 7 and 8 now on line

Course Requirements:

 Midterm Exam: Monday, May 5 &emdash; 30%
Final Exam 10:15 Thursday, June 12 &emdash; 35%
Assignments: 8 assignments, due each Monday &emdash; 25%
Subject pool: 10%

  • The Language Attitude Questionnaire is designed to elicit your language attitudes before the class really gets underway. Answer the questions and then hang onto it so you can look back at a baseline once the class is over. Do not hand this in.

Syllabus

Homework Assignments

Selected lecture notes

Early examples of prescriptive linguistics

Link to downloads for IPA fonts

Phonetics chart with (rough) pronunciations

Phonetics Images

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