SCHEDULE
PART TWO: Sentences, Speakers, Dialects and Language
| Week 9
Mon 3/21 |
How to Make Up Sentences | 6.1 - 6.4 | |
| Wed 3/23 | Meaning and The Structure of Sentences | ||
| Week 10
Mon 3/28 |
film: Lending a Hand | 6.6 | |
| Wed 3/30 | Visual Languages and
American Sign Language |
13 | Assignment 7
Assignment 8 |
| Week 11
Mon 4/4 |
Universal Grammar and Typology
Why are Languages so Similar? Why are Languages so Different? |
5.4, 6.6 | |
| Wed 4/6 | Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition | 9.3 - 9.7 | Assignment 9 |
| Week 12
Mon 4/11 |
film: Acquiring the Human Language | ||
| Wed 4/13 | Discussion of Film
Language in your Brain, Inventing language. |
9.2, 9.8 |
Assignment10 |
| Week 13
Mon 4/18 |
Language Variation: British English and American English | 10.1 - 10.6 | |
| Wed 4/20 | Film: American Tongues | 10.1 - 10.6 | |
| Week 14
Mon 4/25 |
Dialects of American English | 10.5 | Assignment 11 |
| Wed 4/27 | Beliefs about Language Revisited | ||
| Week 15
Mon 5/2 |
Review for Final | ||
| Tuesday 5/10, 12-3 |
FINAL EXAM |