24.900 Introduction to Linguistics
Fall 2011
Instructors: Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff, Janis Melvold
TAs: Iain Giblin, Isaac Gould, Edwin M Howard, Yusuke Imanishi, Marie-Christine Meyer, Wataru Uegaki
Lecture: TR9.30-11 (32-141)
Information:
Announcements
Correction
Dear all,Hello again.
I accidentally sent out the message about a review session to the
entire class.
I regret to say that this review session is only open to members of
R2 due to space limitation and some other constraints.
For those of non-R2 students who already replied to me, please
forgive me for the confusion and stinginess!
Thank you for your understanding.
Yusuke
Announced on 11 December 2011 10:40 p.m. by Yusuke Imanishi
Review session?
Dear all in R2,As I mentioned at the last recitation, please drop me a line if
you're interested in attending a review session. I'm
planning to have the session some time this week (note also that
this weekend may be a possibility).
I'd like you to reply to me by tomorrow's (Monday, 12/12)
noon, if you want to come to the session. I'll then send you
information about scheduling.
For those of you who have already wrote to me, please wait until
further notice.
Best,
Yusuke
Announced on 11 December 2011 10:15 p.m. by Yusuke Imanishi
Participants for a phonological experiment
Dear all in 24.900,One of our fellow graduate students at the department of linguistics is looking for participants in her phonological experiment. This is a very good opportunity to learn how what you have learned in class (particularly phonetics and phonology) can be applied to experiments. I strongly encourage you to contact Suyeon Yun at the following email address if you're interested. Details are given below.
Thank you!
Yusuke Imanishi
Participants needed for perception experiment
- Who: native speaker of English with no hearing problem
- Time: less than an hour
- Place: lab on the 9th floor of bldg. 32
- $10 will be paid for participation
- Contact: suyeon@mit.edu
Announced on 04 December 2011 11:56 p.m. by Yusuke Imanishi
Description, books, etc.
This class will provide some
answers to basic questions about the nature of human language.
Throughout the course, we will be examining a number of ways in
which human language is a surprisingly intricate, yet law-governed,
mental system. In the first two thirds of the class,
we will study certain core aspects of this system in detail,
including the structure of sentences, words, meanings and sounds.
In the final part of the class, what we have learned will be used
to address a variety of other questions — including how children
acquire language, how dialects arise, how languages change over
time, how linguistics may help solve complex social problems, and
others.
The main textbook for the course, available at the Coop and the usual on-line sources, is:
O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller. 2001. Contemporary Linguistics: an Introduction [6th edition]. New York: Bedford/St. Martins. Make sure you have the 6th edition!
We will also read the following book, available from the same places:
Baker, Mark. 2001. Atoms of Language. New York: Basic Books.
From time to time, there will also be other required readings (mostly short) available on-line, as well as some things to listen to or watch. These materials will all be available on Stellar.
Announced on 07 September 2011 3:42 p.m. by Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff
