SCHEDULE
PART ONE:  Sounds and Words


Date
Topic
Reading
from Language Files 9
Homework Due
Week 1 
Wed 1/19
Orientation 
Common Beliefs about Language:  true or false?
1.2, 1.3
None
Week 2
Mon1/24
Can Animals Talk? 2
Wed 1/26 Sounds of Language: Phonetics
Consonants
3.1-3.3 Assignment One
Week 3 
Mon 1/31
Speech Sounds Around the World 3.7
Wed 2/2 Vowels
film:  Normal Speech Articulation
3.4 Assignment Two
Week 4 
Mon 2/7
Phonological Rules and Classes of Sounds 4.2, 4.3
Wed 2/9 Sound Systems:  Phonology 4.2, 4.3 Assignment Three
Week 5 
Mon 2/14
Why Jose doesn't sound like an English speaker and Johnny's Spanish.accent is horrible. French vowels:
mid front 
mid front nasalized
low front
low front nasalized
mid back
mid backnasalized
Wed 2/16 How do children learn about speech sounds and phonological rules? 9.3., 9.4, 9.5, (9.6,  9.7 -- study if possible)
 
Assignment Four
Week 6 
Mon 2/21
Parts of Words:  Morphology  5.1 - 5.3
Wed 2/23 Children's Acquisition of Morphology 9.5 Assignment Five
Week 7 
Mon 2/28
Writing Systems 15.2
Wed 3/2 Eech Sperrors 9.1, 9.2, 9.8, 9.9 Assignment Six
Week 8
Mon 3/7
Review for Midterm None
Wed 3/9 MIDTERM
SPRING RECESS