Applied English for Linguistics
Summer 2010
J. E. Seibert

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Future activities are tentative! Class activities and homework are updated here soon AFTER each class!

The Sounds of America English (from the University of Iowa)

June & July
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday

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Homework: Study for a quiz Tuesday

  1. Complement options: (a) be able to underline them in a sentence, (b) be able to do an exercise like the one we did today in class on the handout (circle the correct complement option and write a sentence).
  2. Complementizers: be able to identify them (underline them)
  3. -Pst, +Pst: which English verb forms are -Pst and +Pst? (I eat, I am eating, I have eaten, I have been eating, I ate, I was eating, I had eaten, I had been eating, I will eat, I will eat, I'm going to eat, I should eat, etc.)
  4. Modal and non-modal auxiliary verbs: be able to identify them

 

29

  • Last quiz

 

 

July 1

 

July 2
Test in Prof. Fujiwara's class at 9:00

No AE class, but Prof. Fujiwara will use the AE time, so come back after your test!

May 31

No classes: Memorial Day

1

  • Warm-up
  • IPA practice: p. 191, 2.6
  • Vowels, p. 193

 

3

  • Warm-up: spelling
  • Review: schwa and wedge
  • Review: stridents

4
AE after Linguistics today (10:30)
Test in Prof. Fujiwara's class at 9:00

 

7

Homework: Small quiz tomorrow. Be able to:

  1. Identify minimal pairs.
  2. Write the English explanation for the symbols for "explanations of environments" on the bottom half of page 44 in your book. Also be able to write the symbols if I give you the explanation.
  3. Label slashes, brackets, allophones, and phonemes in a diagram.

8

  • Quiz
  • Pronunciation: exercises 3.3.1 (2) and 3.6.1 (pp. 44 and 50)
  • Complementary distribution

10

  • Warm-up: pair review of concepts
  • Go over Tuesday's quiz
  • Concepts for tonight's Linguistics homework: underlying, suprasegmental, nucleus, onset, coda, phonemic and phonetic transcription

Homework: Quiz Friday

11

14
AE after Linguistics today (10:30)
Test in Prof. Fujiwara's class at 9:00

  • Warm-up
  • Introduction of English terms for morphology. Refer to pages 73-79

15

  • Warm-up: pronunciation of words from the homework: 4.2-4.5
  • Lexical categories: review
  • Review: morpheme, base, root
  • Word formation: derivation and compounding

Homework: Quiz Thursday. Know these:

morphology
morpheme
free morpheme
bound morpheme
word
simple word
complex word
compound word
affix
suffix
prefix
root
base
pronunciation of compound words in English
lexicon
lexical categories: N, V, A, P

17

  • Quiz
  • More morphology terms: head of a compound, endocentric/exocentric, inflection

 

18

  • Review
  • Inflection (see p. 84)

Homework: Quiz on Monday

  • morphology
    morpheme
    free morpheme
    bound morpheme
    word
    simple word
    complex word
    compound word
    affix, affixation
    suffix
    prefix
    root
    base
    pronunciation of compound words in English
    lexicon
    lexical categories: N, V, A, P
    derivation
    Class 1 and class II affixes
    endo-,exo-
    endocentric compounds
    exocentric compounds
    head, right-headedness
    stress in English compounds
    inflection
    the eight English inflectional affixes
    1st, 2nd, 3rd person
    terms on p. 84
    concepts in exercises: 4.7 and 4.8
  • the difference between an adjective+noun and a compound (for example:
    white house and The White house, or green house and greenhouse)

21

  • Processes of inflection (see p. 89)
  • Quiz

22
AE after Linguistics today (10:30)
Test in Prof. Fujiwara's class at 9:00

24

Homework: Study for a quiz Friday

  1. The meaning (and examples) of N, A, V, Deg, etc.
  2. The meaning of NP, VP, etc.
  3. The terms head, specifier, complement, merge, phrase, syntax, substitution, complement, hierarchical
  4. Identification of the four kinds of phrases (for example, bottom of 108 through 110)

 

25

  • Quiz
  • Modal and non-modal auxiliary verbs
  • Past and non-past verbs
  • More syntax:: P. 113, 5.4 (preparation for the exercise 5.4)
  • If time: modals and non-modals

 

May
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday

24

  • Introductions
  • Warm-up: What's linguistics?
  • Syllabus
  • Phrases to use when you don't understand
  • Meaning and pronunciation of key concepts needed for Prof. Fujiwara's lecture later today and for your Linguistics homework: linguistics, native speaker, creativity, specialization, competence, conscious, subconscious

Homework

  • Study what you learned in class today. There will be a practice quiz tomorrow.

 

25

Homework

  • Study what you learned in AE class today and yesterday
  • Review mistakes you made on the practice quiz and make sure you understand.

 

27

  • Warm-up: review
  • Phonetics terms: introduction
    • Segments and IPA
    • The vocal tract (refer to the handout available on Prof. Fujiwara's WISE site)

Homework

28

  • Quiz!
  • IPA
  • Places of articulation
  • Pronunciation of words in text exercises

Homework

  • Study what you learned in AE class this week
  • Review mistakes you made on the quiz and make sure you understand.

 

Last updated: Thursday, July 1, 2010 8:18
J. E. Seibert