LING 200: Introduction to Linguistic Thought

Spring 2008, University of Washington

3/31 Overview 1.1-1.3

4/2 Language vs. Animal Communication 1.4 & 14.1-14.2

4/4 Phonetics1: Representing Speech Sounds 2.1

4/7 Phonetics2: Consonants and Vowels 2.2-2.3

4/9 Phonology: Phonemes and Allophones 3.1

4/11 Phonology: Phonological Rules 3.2 & 3.5

4/14 Phonology: Phonotactics and Implications 3.3-3.4

4/16 Morphology: Word Formation 4.1

4/18 Morphology: Morphological Processes 4.2-4.3

4/21 Morphology: Word Structure 4.4-4.5

4/23 Syntax: Categories – Lexical and Functional 5.1-5.3

4/25 Syntax: Constituency and Phrase Structure 5.4-5.5

4/28 Syntax: Typology 5.6

4/30 Semantics: Lexical Semantics 6.1-6.3

5/2 Midterm Exam

5/5 Semantics: Compositional Semantics 6.4-6.5

5/7 Pragmatics: Conversational Rules 7.1-7.2

5/9 Pragmatics: Speech Acts and Presupposition 7.3-7.5

5/12 Language Acquisition: Sounds and Phonology 8.1-8.2

5/14 Language Acquisition: Morphology and Syntax 8.3-8.4

5/16 Computational Linguistics – Guest Lecture ch. 15

5/19 Psycholinguistics 9.1-9.4

5/21 Sociolinguistics: Regional and Geographic Factors 10.1-10.3

5/23 Sociolinguistics: Social Factors 10.4

5/26 No class: Memorial Day

5/28 Language Contact 11.1-11.6

5/30 Historical Linguistics: Sound Change 12.1-12.3 & 12.7

6/2 Historical Linguistics: Syntactic and Semantic Change 12.4-12.6

6/4 Writing Systems 13.4

6/6 Review & Course Evaluations

6/12 Final Exam