Fall Semester 2006:

Linguistics 10

Introduction to Language

TTh 2:00-3:15

A general education course in Humanities Area C2, this course provides a general overview of the linguist’s perspective on language, as well as the history of this perspective in Western thought. Materials are the two books Landmarks in Linguistic Thought by Harris & Taylor, and Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews (2003). In these books lurks great enlightenment, and the answers to various mysteries of life. Actually, language is still very mysterious today, but these books allow us to get a cross-generational look at how philosophers and linguists have come to various important conclusions about language over the 2500 years since Plato.

Linguistics 100
General Linguistics
TTh 9:30-10:45

A first course in specific linguistic skills and methods, for linguistics majors and many other interested students.

Materials are the textbook Contemporary Linguistics 5^th edition and its accompanying workbook.

Linguistics 139
General Phonetics
MWF 12:00-12:50

A basic course in phonetics, using Peter Ladefoged’s famous Course in Phonetics for a textbook. The emphasis is on learning the entire International Phonetic Alphabet of symbols and the sounds they signify, as well as most other linguistically important aspects of segmental and suprasegmental speech sound. Acoustic analysis of speech on computer is also introduced.

Spring Semester 2007:

Currently planned:

Linguistics 10

Linguistics 100

and

** This is a course in the Computational Linguistics program **

Linguistics 152

Computational Linguistics

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