Calendar

Week 1

• 1/21 - Introduction
• 1/23 - Language use; the communication of social information

Week 2 - Read: The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores (Labov) and Fromkin/Rodman/Hyams (FRH) Chap 10, pp. 445-459.

• 1/28 - Dialects of English in North America: New York and beyond
• 1/30 - Film, American Tongues

Week 3 - Read: Fromkin/Rodman/Hyams 117-137 and 187-195

• 2/4 - Compositionality and the architecture of language
• 2/6 - How words get glued together

Week 4 - Read: FRH 138-165

• 2/11 - Syntax
• 2/13 - Words of language: morphology

Week 5 - Read: FRH Chap. 11 and Watkins, Indoeuropean and the Indo-europeans

• 2/18 - Etymology, borrowing, cognates.
• 2/20 - Language change, language families

Week 6 - Read: FRH pp. 341-374

• 2/25 - The logical problem of language acquisition
• 2/27 - Empirical studies of language acquisition

Week 7 - Read: Elizabeth Spelke, "What Makes Us Smart", will be put online

• 3/4 - Empirical studies of language acquisition
• 3/6 - Language after 4h of life: what infants know

Week 8 -

• 3/11 - Film

Spring break

Week 9 - Read: Spears, Black American English; FRH Chap 10, pp. 459-472.

• 3/25 - Language and diversity: linguistic minorities, African-American English
• 3/27 - Cross-cultural communication

Week 10 - Read: Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en español: Toward a typology of code-switching (Poplack)

• 4/1 - Multilingualism: creole languages, issues of creolization in AAE and PBP
• 4/3 - Multilingualism: Code-switching

Week 11 - Read: FRH Chap. 6

• 4/8 - Language change in progress
• 4/10 - The sounds of language: phonetics and articulation

Week 12 - Read: FRH Chap. 7

• 4/15 - Phonology
• 4/17 - Phonology

Week 13 - Read: FRH 33-55

• 4/22 - When language goes away: aphasia and related disorders
• 4/24 - Neurolinguistics (Pylkkanen)

Week 14 - Read: FRH Ch9

• 4/29 - Pycholinguisticslinguistics: how the brain computes it all
• 5/1 - Getting computers to imitate the brain