• Reflective Essay #3  (via email, word doc attachment)
• Final Review – Final exam Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 9:15am

• Review sheet – here / Transcription activity here

• Sample papers Essay #3
• Phonetics vs Phonology / phoneme vs allophones / minimal pairs
• Homework: Homework Phonetics and phonology (due Wed. Dec, 5)

• Review Morphology & Word Formation homework assignment
• Introduction to Phonetics – Interactive IPA here / Consonants and Vowels
• Phonetics vs Phonology / phoneme vs allophones / minimal pairs
• Presentation here
• Homework: Homework Phonetics and phonology – last one! (due Wed. Dec, 5) here / Give feedback to your classmates / Email me 3 questions for the final exam
  • Feeback Chain:
    • Lizbeth: William & Jessica
      
    • Alisia: Manisha & Lizbeth
      
    • William: Alisia & Manisha
      
    • Malekie:Lizbeth & Abigail
      
    • Manisha:Alisia & Wiliam
      
    • Jessica: Malekie & Scott
    • Scott: Abigail & Jessica
    • Abigail: Scott & Malekie

• Ethnologue – https://www.ethnologue.com/
• The World Atlas of Language Structures – https://wals.info/
• Global Road Warrior – http://www.globalroadwarrior.com/
• LaGuardia Library – Databases: WorldCat
• Homework: Reflective Essay #3 draft (due Wed. 28) / Read “The Sound Patterns of English“
• The International Phonetic Alphabet – IPA
  • Resources to illustrate IPA: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/ipa/          https://tophonetics.com/
  • Google play app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hkbu.ulip.avphonetics
  • Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/av-phonetics/id1022721561?mt=8
• FIELD TRIP:
  • Wednesday, Nov. 28: Ahmed, Xavier, Abigail, Stephanie, Scott, Norely, Jessica, Lizbeth
    
  • Wednesday, Dec. 5: Manisha, Alisia, Daysi, Misha-el, Isaac, Christian, Malekie

• Review Grammar & Syntax Homework
• Word Formation Practice – here
  
• Homework: Reflective Essay #3 draft (due Wed. 28) / Read “The Sound of Language“

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• Word formation – class notes here
• Doodle – Field trip days/time here
• Reflective Essay #3 – comments about your language/dialect here
• Homework: Homework Morphology & Word Formation / Reflective Essay #2 Final Version
• Last day to hand-in essay #1 and/or essay #2 (hard copies in class)
  

• Introduction to morphology – presentation available here
• Homework Morphology & Word Formation (here) – Due next Wednesday
• Feedback Reflective Essay #2
• Reflective Essay #3
• Homework: Reading “Word formation“

• Review Syntax – Trees (I added our tree diagrams to our class notes – find the word doc here)
  
• Announcements – Field trip / interviews with Sujung
  
• Homework: Read “Morphology” (it is a very short introduction – 5 pages!) / (Instructions for reflective Essay #3 are available – we will talk about this on Wednesday).
  

• Homework: Read “Syntax” / Homework Grammar & Syntax (doc. here) – due next Monday (Nov. 12)

• Language planning stages
  
• Pros and cons
• Introduction to parts of Speech
• Homework: Read “Grammar” / Reflective Essay #2 Due – Nov. 5 (hard copy) / Nov. 7 (email)
  

• Field trip activity options / Vote
  
• Feedback & Homework (discussion question)
• Language standarization – write a comment on the discussion question here

• Deborah Tannen – video & disussion questions – here
  
• Review Linguistics Landscape Essay #2
• Homework: Read “Language Standarization” / After our conversation today, write a comment on the blog – here / Give feedback to two of your classmates
  • Feedback chain:
    • Misha-el:  Alisia & Xavier
    • Ahmed: William & Xavier
    • Xavier: Alisia & Scott
    • Alisia: Scott & Ahmed
    • Scott: William & Malekie
    • William: Malekie & Jessica
    • Malekie: Jessica & Manisha
    • Jessica: Manisha & Misha-el
    • Manisha: Misha-el & Ahmed

• quotes from the article here
• Review reflective essay – Think-Pair-Share activity
• Homework: Reflective Essay #2 – Draft due Oct. 24 / Read “The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why” by Deborah Tannen.

• Introduction to Language ideologies / Would you rather…
• Free-writing
• Workshop Reflective Essay #2 – Draft due Oct. 24
• Homework: Read “Introduction to Language & Power in the Modern World” by Mary Talbot, Karen Atkinson and David Atkinson.

• Homework: Read “Language Ideology” by J. Blommaert. This is an introductory article to language ideologies. The article contains a wealth of new information regarding authors and different fields, make sure to pay attention to the following sections: ideology & language (511-512), ideology & speech community (514-515), language ideologies, Norms & Social Dynamics (520). Answer the following questions: 1) Come up with a definition of language ideology in your own words – do not copy the text/article words (you can use an example) 2) Why and how are language ideologies relevant?
  

• • Reflective Essay #1 due: Submit a hard copy in class. Your paper should be no more than 2 pages, with 12pt Times New Roman Font and 1inch margins (double space). If you are using any material that is not your own in the paper, please cite (APA or MLA style).

• • Homework: Read “Introduction: The Study of the Linguistic Landscape as a New Approach to Multilingualism” by Durk Gorter. The language(s) you see and hear around you in public places convey powerful messages about what histories, cultures, and identities are valued right where you are. After reading about linguistic landscape, find and share (blog) pictures from your local linguistic landscape and answer the following questions: a) where was the picture taken? b) what language(s) are used? c) what do the signs say?

• Examples: I am in Utah this weekend for a conference and I am sharing with you the linguistic landscape that I have experienced at Salt Lake City airport:

• Homework: Read “The Social Startification of (r) in New York City Department stores“ and answer the following questions.
  • What is the question / hypothesis of the study?
  • What methodology does Labov use?
  • What are the results?
• Reflective Essay #1 due
  

• Who is who? activity and discussion
• Homework: After our conversation today, write a comment on the blog – here / Give feedback to two of your classmates (Feedback chain):
  • Manisha: Malekie & Rose-Ericka
  • Malekie: Rose-Ericka & Scott
  • Rose-Ericka: Scott & Willaim
  • Scott: Lizbeth & Manisha
  • William: Lizbeth & Xavier
  • Lizbeth: Xavier & Alisia
  • Xavier: Alisia & Manisha
  • Alisia: Malekie & William
  • Daysi: Norely & Abigail
  • Norely: Abigail & Daysi
  • Abigail: Daysi & Norely
  • Brian: Amhed & Jessica
  • Amhed: Brian & Jessica
  • Jessica: Brian & Ahmed

• • Structural Linguistics – overview
  • Generative grammar – overview
  • Reflective Essay #1
    • Prewriting process: Prewriting is anything you do before you write a draft of your document. It includes thinking, taking notes, talking to others, brainstorming, outlining, and gathering information. Although prewriting is the first activity you engage in, generating ideas is an activity that occurs throughout the writing process.

• Homework: Readings for next week (Can one person’s speech be better than another’s & Language and social variation) will help you drafting your essay. / Reflective Essay #1 due Monday, October 1st.

• Homework: Read “20th-Century Linguistics: Overview of Trends“
• No office hours after class.

• Homework: Read “Modern Linguistics 1800 to the Present Day“ – make sure to pay attention to the different “schools” / “movements” and ask yourself, how do they undestand language?
  • Comparative philology, Neogrammarians, Structuralism – William & Bryan
    
  • Ling. Geography, Ling. Anthropology, Ling. Relativity – Daysi 
    
  • Behaviorim, Distributionalism, Generativism – Lizbeth & Jessy
    
  • Sociolinguistics & Pragmatics, Speech-Act Theory, Lang. origins and nonhuman lang. – Scott & Natalia
    
• Comments/Summary here (shared google doc)
  

• Homework:
  • Complete the questionnaire here
  • Read “The Study of Language”
  • After our discussion in class – pick one language myth and write a post about it. The blog posts are an opportunity to explore, expand and question your ideas and thoughts, at the same time that you are reflecting on your experience. They are a low-stake assignment, you will be evaluated based on clarity and depth of content, not based on grammar or spelling.