ENGL107
Survey of English Linguistics
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- Professor: Kent Lee
- Fall 2019
- Time: Tue/Thu 1st period, 9.00-10.15am
- Room: 202 서관 (Liberal Arts Building)
- Office hours: by appointment
- Syllabus (강의 계획)
Contents
1 Overview
1.1 Course description
This is a first-year level introductory course to linguistics, which provides a general overview of the field. Students will learn basics concepts of human language and linguistics, and will explore how the English language is structured and used. This course aims to prepare students for university linguistic courses, improving their language learning skills (e.g., English as a second language), and developing an interest it English linguistics.
1.2 Course objectives
By the end of the semester, students will
- Understand basic linguistic terminology;
- Understand basic concepts of how human language works;
- Understand basic structural aspects of English;
- Gain study skills needed for the study of English and other languages.
1.3 Textbook and materials
This might be used as the textbook.
- Fromkin et al. (2018). An introduction to language. (The book is rather expensive, and the 11th edition is new and hard to get in Korea; I will make an electronic version available via Blackboard, so you do not need to buy this book.)
1.4 Announcements
- Assignments
- Google Form homework: Dialects
- Short paper #2, due 08 December, 11:59pm
- Past announcements
- Short paper #1, due before the midterm
- Review quiz 1, due before class on 17 October (Note: Due to problems with the form, adjustments will be made to your scores for this quiz.)
- Midterm exam: in class, 9am, 22 Oct. 9 (Tuesday). Bring your laptop. You can use the Internet, and you can also bring your notes and textbook. You can work in groups of 1-4 people (form your groups with whomever you like, but try for a good mix of people from different countries & language backgrounds).
- Google Form #2: Minimal pairs quiz; due before class on 01 October
- A pre-class mini-quiz has been posted. Read the phonology chapter and complete the online quiz form before class on 24 September.
2 Weekly topics and assignments
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| midterms |
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| Nov |
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| Dec |
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| finals |
Daily polls (right): There is no right or wrong; I just want to know your opinion on these questions. These all add up to a single grade. These are also used to track your class attendance.
2.1 Weeks 1-7
| Introduction (Weeks 1-2): Basic concepts | |
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| Phonetics & Phonology (Weeks 3-4): Sounds & sound system of language | |
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| Morphology (Week 5): Words and word formation | |
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| Grammar & syntax (Weeks 7): Word order & sentence structure | |
You do not need to know how to draw syntactic trees or how they work, other than the different possible word order patterns. |
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2.2 Midterm (Week 8)
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- Before the exam
- Review quiz 1, due before class on 17 October (Note: Due to problems with the form, adjustments will be made to your scores for this quiz.)
- Short paper #1, due before the midterm
In-class essay exam
- Date: 9am, Tuesday, 22 October, in our regular classroom
- This will be an essay exam. It will test you over main ideas and concepts from the lectures and the book (not minor details), and how well you can apply them.
- Be sure to bring a laptop for writing, and whatever snacks and drinks you need.
- You can use your textbook and notes. You can use the Internet for whatever resources you need, but you should not (and do not need to) use any other linguistics research sources.
- You can work in groups of 1-4 people (form your groups with whomever you like, but try for a good mix of people from different countries & language backgrounds).
- You will email it to me when finished. Or you can compose it in Google Docs and send it (be sure to make the file shareable, so I can open it).
- You can use either one of these templates for document layout.
- Exam
The exam questions will posted here at 9am on 22 Oct. Bring your laptop. You can use the Internet, and you can also bring your notes and textbook.
2.3 Weeks 9-15
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| Sociolinguistics (Week 10): Language in society | |
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| Historical & comparative linguistics (Week 11): Language over time | |
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| Psycholinguistics (Week 14) | |
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| Psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics (Week 15) | |
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2.4 Final exam (Week 16)
Essay exam or paper. BWOOOHAAAHAA!
3 See also
3.1 Videos
- OP (original pronunciation), extract of Romeo & Juliet (cf. text)
- Shakespeare OP links
- Ben Crystal talks about OP
- TYMNK: Adjective order in English
- TYMNK: Why computers suck at translating
- TYMNK: Why Can't Adults Learn Languages Like Children?
- TYMNK: Why Do We Have "Ye Olde"?
3.2 Other links & resources
- Additional recommended books
- Crystal, D. (2002). The English language (2nd ed.). London: Penguin.
- Language Files, 12th ed., Ohio State Univ. Press.
3.3 References
- ↑ Various minor assignments have different point values. At the end of the semester, I will add up the point values to calculate one summative grade for minor assignments. For example, if your points add up to 175 out of 195 possible points, that's 175/195 = 89.7.
