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This class provides a handson introduction to the basic terminology, concepts, and procedures
associatedwithscientificthought,practice,andacademicwritinginthefieldoflinguistics.
COURSEPREREQUISITES:Language3060
COURSECREDITREQUIREMENTSANDGRADING
Yourfinalgradewilldependonthenumberofpointsyouscore.Youcangetthemaximumof100points
ifyou
attendregularly:attend24/26sessions(notincludingthefirstsessionandthemidtermexam),each
oneworth1point,foramaximumof24points.Absencescanbeexcusedifyoushowmeadoctors
note,orifyoucanprovideanyothersubstantial(!)reasonforyourabsence.Unexcusedabsencein
morethan6classesmayresultinfailureoftheclass.
passamidtermexamforamaximumof20points
passafinalexamforamaximumof26points
o If you encounter a scheduling conflict with the examination dates, please notify me by 1
Novembersothatwemayarrangeanalternativedate.
handinaprojectpaperforamaximumof30points.Theclassisdesignedforyoutoworkonthe
projectpaperthroughoutthesemesteringroupsof35people.Thefinalgradeoftheprojectwillbe
comprisedasfollows:
o theprojectpaperwillbegradedwithamaximumof20points,with5pointseachevaluating
thequalityof
theliteraturereview
themethodssectiondescribingcorpusanalysis
themethodssectiondescribingexperimentalanalysis
theformattingofthepaper
o groupmemberswillevaluateeachothersperformancewithupto10points
Boththemidtermandthefinalexamareclosedbookandclosednotes.Pleasebringa50itemscantron
sheettobothexams.
MAKEUPASSIGNMENTSANDEXTRACREDIT
Ifyouarenotsatisfiedwithyourperformanceinanyofthecourserequirements,youcancontactme
anytime todiscussamakeuporextracreditassignment. Allmakeupandextracreditassignmentsare
due9December.
COURSEMATERIALS
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INFORMATIONONDROPPPINGCLASSES
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CONTACT
Instructor:StefanieWulff,Ph.D.(Stefanie.Wulff@unt.edu)
Lecture:TuTh45:20pm(LangGAB550A)
Officehours:Thursdays14pm(Lang407L)
ODASTATEMENT
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BASICSCIENTIFICTERMINOLOGYANDCONCEPTS
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8/26
8/31
9/2
9/7

Introductiontotheclass
BasicscientificconceptsI(definitions)
BasicscientificconceptsII(variables,hypotheses)
BasicscientificconceptsIII(falsification,pvalues)

THELITERATUREREVIEW
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6

9/9
9/14
9/16

Readingaresearcharticle(Stefanowitsch2003)
Summarizingaresearcharticle
FINDINGRELEVANTINFORMATION:LIBRARYVISIT

LINGUISTICDATAI:OBSERVATIONALMETHODS
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9/21
9/23
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Introductiontocorpuslinguistics
CorpuslabdayI:COCA
CorpuslabdayII:AntConc

LINGUISTICDATAII:EXPERIMENTALMETHODS
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9/30
10/5
10/7
10/12
10/14
10/19
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Basicexperimentaldesigns
DesigninganexperimentI:generalintroduction
DesigninganexperimentII:quantifieruseinEnglish(some,many,afew)
DesigninganexperimentIII:groupprojects
HUMANSUBJECTRESEARCH:NIHCERTIFICATION
Revisionformidtermexam
MIDTERMEXAM
DesigninganexperimentIV:groupprojects

CODINGANDEVALUATINGDATA
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10/28
11/2
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11/9
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Savingdatainexcel
Annotatingdatainexcel
BasicdescriptivestatisticsI:Meansandstandarddeviations
BasicdescriptivestatisticsII:Chisquaretests
Visualizingdatainexcel:tablesandgraphics
WritingtheResultsandDiscussionsectionsofaresearchpaper

STRUCTUREANDFORMOFARESEARCHPAPERANDPRESENTATION
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11/18
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WritingtheIntroductionandAbstractofaresearchpaper
NOCLASS(THANKSGIVINGHOLIDAY)
Formattingaresearchpaper:quotation,footnotes,andbibliography
Howtogiveagoodpresentation

STRUCTUREANDFORMOFARESEARCHPRESENTATION
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12/7

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12/9

12/16

MakeaWish!
Revisionforfinalexam;courseevaluations
DEADLINEFOREXTRACREDITSUBMISSIONS
DEADLINEFORPROJECTPAPERS
FINALEXAM(1:30pm)

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REQUIREDREADINGS
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GrammaticalVariationinEnglish.BerlinandNewYork:MoutondeGruyter,41341.
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Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating language
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Greenbaum,Sidney(ed.).1977a.AcceptabilityinLanguage.TheHague:Mouton.
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Greenbaum, Sidney. 1977b. Judgments of syntactic acceptability and frequency. Studia Linguistica
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