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DRAFT 08/21/2009
Course Objectives:
Course Requirements:
Attendance in class and at the school is MANDATORY. Your overall course grade
will be lowered by 5 points for each unexcused absence. Please see professor Charity directly
if you need an excused absence, as proper documentation is required (i.e. from the Dean of
Students, or Health Services). Readings are due on the day that they are listed. Religious and
spiritual related absences will be facilitated. Bring a computer to class if at all possible! If
you do not have a laptop or it is hard to bring, please see me.
Assignments will be posted on the class wiki at least one week before they are due.
Late assignments will not be graded without a medical excuse. If an assignment is unexcused
and late, you will receive a zero for that assignment. All assignments must be completed to
receive a grade in the class, so even if an assignment is late and receives a zero, you must
turn it in.
Turning in Assignments:
Most assignments will be due by email Fridays at 10 AM as a .pdf and/or files. The
title of the document should be yourlastname. ENG.220.MMDDYY.doc
(ex: Charity.Hudley.ENG.220.08.30.2007.doc). Typed portions of assignments should
be double spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins on all sides. I will
expect you to bring an electronic or paper copy of the assignment to class on the following
Tuesday. You must turn in the electronic copy and the corrected paper or electronic copy to
receive credit for your work. You may work with other people on the assignments, but you
must list everyone that you worked with at the top of your assignment or in the
accompanying email.
Note on Sustainability:
http://www.tolerance.org/campus/index.jsp
Tolerance is a personal decision that comes from a belief that every person is a
treasure. I believe that America's diversity is its strength. I also recognize that ignorance,
insensitivity and bigotry can turn that diversity into a source of prejudice and discrimination.
To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for
all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity
or other characteristics are different from my own.
Because things improve only when people like you take action.
For more information about tolerance and diversity on our campus see:
http://www.wm.edu/about/diversity/index.php
Accommodation for Students with Learning and Physical Differences
http://www.wm.edu/deanofstudents/disable/dsserv.php
The course textbook and workbook are required. Please bring textbooks to class at
each meeting unless otherwise indicated. You may purchase the paper or online edition of the
texts. If you use the texts online, please bring a laptop to class at each meeting.
Textbook:
Finegan, E. 2008 Fifth Edition. Language: Its Structure and Use. Harcourt Brace
Textbook Website:
http://www.cengage.com:80/cengage/instructor.do?
product_isbn=9781413030556&disciplinenumber=300&codeid=7592&courseid=EN09
Workbook website:
http://www.coursesmart.com/9781413030853
Labov, William. 1987. How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/HowIgot.html
O’Grady, William. 2005. Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, Chapters from Various
Editions: Natural Sign Languages, Language and the Brain
Rayner, K., Foorman, B.R., Perfetti, C.A., Pesetsky, D. & Seidenberg, M.S. (2001). How
psychological science informs the teaching of reading. Psychological science in the public
interest, 2(2), 31-74. A supplement to Psychological Science.
http://www.pitt.edu/~perfetti/PDF/How%20psych%20sci%20informs%20teaching%20of
%20reading-%20Rayner%20et%20al..pdf
Grading:
Topics and assignments are subject to change at the discretion of Professor Charity Hudley.
Readings are due on the day that they are listed.
Daily Summary:
August 27: Introduction and Overview Nuts and Bolts of the Course
What is Linguistics? What is grammar? Language Myths & Prescriptive vs. descriptive
accounts of language
Reading:
Overview of language, animal communication & human language, the human brain &
language development, go over linguistic autobiographies
Reading: Finegan Chapter 2: Words and Their Parts: Lexicon and Morphology
Assignment 1: Intro to Linguistics & Morphology assignment due Friday September 11,
at 10 AM
Installation of software:
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/index.asp
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=DoulosSILfont
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
September 24: Phonology III: Morphophonology and Visual Phonology: Sign Language
Reading:
O’Grady Chapter 10: Natural Sign Languages &
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/Sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Reading: Finegan Chapter 5: The Structure and Function of Phrases and Sentences: Syntax
Reading: Finegan Chapters 6 &8: The Study of Meaning: Semantics & Information Structure
and Pragmatics
October 23: Language Variation and Change: Language Reconstruction; Return and go over
Midterm
October 27: Language Variation and Change: Language and its Social Correlates
Reading:
Finegan Chapter 10 Language Variation Across Situations of Use: Register and Styles
Finegan Chapter 11: Language Variation Among Social Groups: Dialects
October 29: PROF CHARITY HUDLEY OUT @ U-Texas Arlington- MOVIE: Do You
Speak American?
Reading: http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Rayner, K., Foorman, B.R., Perfetti, C.A., Pesetsky, D. & Seidenberg, M.S. (2001). How
psychological science informs the teaching of reading. Psychological science in the public
interest, 2(2), 31-74. A supplement to Psychological Science.
http://www.pitt.edu/~perfetti/PDF/How%20psych%20sci%20informs%20teaching%20of
%20reading-%20Rayner%20et%20al..pdf
Reading: O’Grady 13: Brain and Language (on the class wiki)
December 1: Applied Linguistics: What do we do with all of this? Bring action plans with
you? & Fill out class evaluations
So many sites:
http://www.omniglot.com/links/language.htm
CUMULATIVE FINAL EXAM: Tuesday Dec 15 from 2-5pm in our regular classroom.
The final exam is closed book.