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Second Chances If you are dissatisfied with the grade you receive on any graded homework assignment or ARO you may do additional work to improve your grade. The links below will be activated after the graded homework on the topic has been returned. Choose below the section of the course you wish to do additional work for and submit the work within a week of receiving the grade that dissatifies you. That grade will be averaged with the original grade for your grade on the assignment in question. Second chance work is treated as a take-home quiz: you must do it on your own without discussing it with anyone. Second Chance Syntax Second Chance Semantics (Homework) Second Chance Semantics (ARO) Second Chance Sociolinguistics Third Chance Paper Topics

While LN 110 is a self-contained course which teaches many linguistic terms, there is a set of basic terms which will help things run more smoothly in the course. The best way to review these basic terms before or during the course is with Jerry Mead's Glossary Wizard. To use Glossary Wizard simply click the category or categories you want to review. You might like to 'Review the Selected Categories' first, to get an idea of the number and nature of the terms in that category. The next step is to see if you can match term to definition and vice versa. As a final check, you probably would want to try the electronic 'Flash Cards' to test you ability to define each term.

Cybereview Sessions Professor Beard's Virtual Office will be open for homework and ARO review sessions. Times will be announced in the banner, the syllabus, and in class. The purpose of the virtual review sessions is to provide a venue for discussing homework problems with the instructor while you are doing them. Our thanks goes to John Wilkins for assistance made Cybereview possible.

Lexicon of Linguistics. For a more thorough listing of all linguistic terminology you may use this dictionary of terms prepared by OTS of the University of Utrecht. While it does not offter the self-testing mechanisms of Glossary Wizard, it does contain very accurate definitions of virtually all the specialized terms of linguistics.

Linguistics 105 Fonts Linguistics fonts are installed in the computer laboratories in Taylor 204 and Rooke 17. In order to use them, you have to (re)start the computer in Windows 95 mode (not Windows NT). You do that be selecting Windows 95 from the menu on the screen at startup before Windows NT, the default operating system, loads. If you are using the Windows platform, you may download the Linguistics 105 fonts by clicking here. They are in a self-extracting file. Download it into your a temporary file, then go to it via Windows Explorer or 'My Computer' and double click the file lingfont.exe. That file will automatically expand into five TTF font files, several keyboard files, and a text file. Next, open the 'Fonts' folder in 'Control Panel' (in your 'My Computer' file) and under 'File', choose 'Install Fonts'. Select the five TTF fonts in your temporary file. If you are using a MacIntosh, you may download the Linguistics 105 fonts here. Save the file to your desktop then drag and drop it into your Unstuffit' file. Double click the .sea file which Unstuffit generates and an LN 105 font folder will appear. Drag the two fonts in that folder to your system folder. On either platform, once the Linguistic 105 fonts are installed in your computer, you must install them in your browser. Here is how you do that. Netscape Communicator 4.05 or 4.5: Go to the menu 'Edit / Preferences / Fonts' and select 'For the encoding: User Defined'. Choose 'Linguistics 105' for your user-defined proportional font and 'Courier LN 105' for your user-defined fixed-width font, then click 'OK'. Next, return to the 'View' or 'Options' menu and at the very bottom and under 'Character Set' or 'Document Encoding', select 'User Defined'. You are now ready to do the phonetic exercises for Linguistics 105. MS Internet Explorer: Under 'View / Internet Options' choose 'Fonts'. On the font menu select 'User Defined' and set the proportional font for 'Linguistics 105' and the fixed-width font for 'Courier LN 105'. Click 'OK' until you are back in your browser. Next open 'View / Fonts' and select 'User Defined. To Type IPA Symbols you will need the LN105 Keyboard Manager. Unfortunately, this is available only for the Windows platform. Return to the TEMP file where you downloaded and unpacked LINGFONT.EXE. Read the 'Readme.txt' file for instructions on how to set up the keyboard (or just double-click SETUP.EXE and accept all the defaults).

Languages of the World Click here to go to an index of on-line grammars of a wide array of languages from around the world: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Bengali, Dutch, Hebrew, Latin, Quechua, Seneca, Welsh, Swahili--and more are being added every day.

Sagittal Section Exercises These special exercises, created by Mary Beth James, Patrick Leary and Randy Faust of Bucknell's CCS Multimedia Development Team, allow you to see where the tongue is placed when you pronounce the basic phonemes of US English. These exercises require that you . The Vowel Display (Patrick Leary) The Consonant Display (Randy Faust)

C o u r s e    S c h e d u l e
D A T E	T O P I C	ASSIGNMENT LF=Language Files; ODA=O'Grady, Dobrovolsky & Aronoff
January 19	0. Introduction to the Course	LF 1.1 Course Objectives
Wednesday	What is Linguistics?
January 21	What is Language?
Friday	Video: from The Human Language Series
January 24	1. What is Language?
Monday
January 26	2. Categories of Language	Read ODA 5.1
Wednesday	Review the categories yourself	Read LF 6.2 Lexical Categories
January 28	2. Categories of Language	Read LF 6.3 Phrasal Categories
Friday	Review the categories yourself	Read LF 6.4 Subcategories
January 31	3. Paying Your Syntax
Monday	Syntactic Fun!	Read ODA 5.2 & 216-20: How to build trees
		*Write out ODA, 220-1, Exercises 2 & 4
February 2	4. Representing Phrase Structure	Read ODA 5.3
Wednesday	In-Class Exercises: Headlines (1-10)	Prepare 'Headlines' to left
		LF 6.5 Phrase Structure
February 4	Talking Heads
Friday	In-Class Exercises: Headlines (11-20)	Write out ODA, 221, 5-6
February 7	5. Clauses in Clauses in . . .	Read ODA 5.3 & LF 6.6 Transformations
Monday		Write out ODA, 222, 10
February 9	6. Santa Isn't the Only Clause that Moves	Read ODA 5.4-5.5
Wednesday		GRADED: Write out ODA, 223, 12-14
February 11	Review of Syntax	Write out ODA, 223-4, 15-17
Friday		Read ODA Student Linguist, 225-7
February 14	7. The Meaning of Meaning
Monday		Read ODA 7.1
February 16	8. The Semantics of Words	Read ODA 7.2
Wednesday	In-class exercises: Headlines	Read LF 7.1 What is Meaning?
	How meanings are connected	Read LF 7.2 Semantic Relationship
		Write out ODA, 280-1 1-2, 6
February 18	9. The Semantics of Phrases	Read ODA 7.3
Friday		Read LF 7.3 Semantic Composition
February 21	10. The Architecture of Meaning	Read ODA 7.4
Monday	Semantic Fun	GRADED: Write out ODA, 283-4, 13-15
February 23	11. Pragmatics: Speech Context	Read ODA 7.4
Wednesday	Gestures	Read LF 8.2 Speech Acts
		Read LF 8.1 Meaning & Context
February 25	12. Language & Mind	Read The Student Linguist, ODA 285-7
Friday	Review Semantics	Read LF 14.1 Whorf Hypothesis & 14.2 Color Terms
		Read ODA Student Linguist, 285-7
February 27	On-line Cybereview	Click here at 10:00 pm
Sunday	Professor Beard's Virtual Office
	Identification Review for ARO No. 1
February 28	ARO Syntax & Semantics
Monday
March 1	13. Phonetic Transcription	Read ODA 2.1, 2.7-2.8
Wednesday	Review Syntax & Semantics ARO	LF 3.1 The sounds of speech
	Sagittal Section Vowels
March 3	14. Phonetic Transcription	Read ODA 2.2-2.5
Friday	Sagittal Section Consonants	Write out ODA pp. 50, 1-6 (a-h only)
March 6	15. Properties of Vowels	Read ODA 2.9-2.11, LF 3.6 Natural classes
Monday	Class Exercises: Vowels	Read LF 3.3 Articulation of Vowels
	Vowel Self-Check
March 8	16. Properties of Consonants	Read ODA 2.6
Wednesday	Class Exercises: Consonants	Read LF 3.2 Articulation of consonants
	Consonant Self-Check	Write out Problem No. 1
March 10	Review of Phonetics	Read ODA pp. 51-53, "Student Linguist"
Friday		Write out Problem No. 2

March 20	17. Linguistic Relativity	Read ODA, 12.1
Monday		Read LF 12.1 Introduction to Language Variation
March 22	18. Sociolinguistics	Read ODA, 12.1
Wednesday		Read LF 12.2 Variation at Different Levels US Slang
March 24	Video: American Tongues
Friday
March 27	19. Regional Dialects--Northern US	Read ORA 12.3-12.4
Monday		Read LF 12.4 Language & Region
March 29	20. Regional Dialects--Southern US
Wednesday
March 31	21. Regional Dialects--The World	Read LF 12.6 Variation in Speech Style
Friday
April 3	22. Gender & Language	Read ODA 12.5
Monday	Racism in Mock Spanish	Read ODA 12.2-3 (Gender & Language)
April 5	23. The 'Ebonics' Debate	Read LF 12.5 Language & Ethnicity
Wednesday	Ebonics Resources	Read Oakland Resolution & LSA Resolution
		Read Fillmore's essay
April 7	24. Pidgins & Creoles	Read ODA 12.4
Friday		Read LF 11.1 Language Contact
		Read LF 11.2 Pidgins & LF 11.3 Creoles
April 10	Review Sociolinguistics	Read ODA, 463-4, Student Linguist
Monday	Dialects Review & Homework	GRADED: Translate the sentences in the Dialects Review
	Identification Review ARO No. 2
April 12	ARO: Sociolinguistics & Phonetics
Wednesday	Identification Review ARO No. 2
April 14	Review ARO Sociolinguistics	Read ODA 15.1-15.2
Friday	Intro to Computational Linguistics	Read LF 14.4 Language & Computers
		Read LF 14.5 Speech Synthesis
April 17	25. Speech Synthesis	Read ODA 15.3-15.6
Monday		Read LF 14.5 Speech Synthesis
April 19	26. Computational Syntax & Semantics	Read ODA 15.3-15.6
Wednesday
April 21	27. Writing Systems	Read ODA 13.1-13.4
Friday	Ancient Scripts of the World	Read LF 14.6 Writing Systems
	All the Scripts in the World	ODA 13.1-13.2 Write your name in Mayan glyphs
April 24	28. Orthography	ODA 13.5
Monday	Lawrence Lo "History of the Alphabet"	Alphabets Egyptian heiroglyphs I Egyptian heiroglyphs II Write your name in heiroglyphics
April 26	Review Computational Linguistics
Wednesday	& Writing Systems
April 28	ARO Computation & Writing
Friday	Identification Review ARO No. 3
May 1	Review of the Course
Monday