Here's the tentative schedule for the Waltham Speech Project: [pdf]

The schedule below shows the topics, assigned readings, exams, and homework due dates for the Fall 2009 offering of
Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistics.
See also the course syllabus.

• Click on the links for the online lecture notes and additional web-accessible information. This information will be duplicated on the LATTE course webpage
• For some special characters, your browser must be able to read the Unicode format.
• Links to homework assignments are also provided (answers for homeworks will only appear on LATTE, not here).
• Assigned readings will be added and revised as the course progresses! Please make sure to check this page every week.

Be aware that the lecture and homework links will often not function until we reach that point in the semester.

PLEASE READ: a study guide for the course, with the list of topics we will cover.

Week of 8/27
• Introduction and background concepts [outline of lecture]

Week of 8/31
• Notions of grammar [outline of the lecture] [slides]
• Homework 1 [html] due Thursday, Sept 3 in class
• Language as a human instinct, [outline of the lecture] [slides]
• Homework 2 [html] due Thursday, Sept 10 in class

Week of 9/7 - No class Monday Sept 7 - Labor Day
• Animal communication
  [outline of the lectures]
  [slides]
• Acquiring human language
  [outline of the lecture]
  [slides]
• Read all the papers linked on LATTE!
• Homework 3 [html] due Thursday, Sept 17

Week of 9/14
• Sounds of language and their parts
  [outline of the lecture]
  [slides]
• International Phonetic Alphabet & English language
  IPA chart for English
• Homework 4 [pdf] due Thursday, Sept 18

Week of 9/21
• Structure of sound - phonemes, allophones, and rules
  [outline of the lecture]
• Homework 5 [pdf] due Thursday, Oct. 8 - start NOW, do not wait till next week!
  Audio for "syllabification" is here

Week of 9/28 - No class Monday Sept 28 - Yom Kippur
       Class meets Tuesday Sept 29 - Brandeis Monday
• How to solve phonology problems. Structure of sound - syllables and words
  [outline of the lecture]
  [how to solve phonology problems] [slides]

Week of 10/5 - No class Monday Oct 5 - Sukkot
• Morphology: the structure of words [outline]
• Homework 6 [pdf] due Thursday, Oct. 15

Week of Oct 12
• Morphophonology. Morphology and other parts of language.
• Waltham Speech Project - tales from the trenches. Midterm review

Week of Oct 19
• Syntax 1: structure of English sentences [outline]

Week of Oct 26
• Syntax 2: grammatical universals [outline syntax 2] [outline syntax 3]
• Homework 7 [pdf] due Monday, Nov. 2

Week of Nov 2
• Syntax 3: beyond English

Week of Nov 9
• Syntax and semantics [outline semantics and pragmatics]
• Homework 8 [pdf] due Thursday, November 19

Week of Nov 16
• Pragmatics
• Language variation. Languages and dialects
  [outline] [Slides]
• Homework 9 [pdf] due Wednesday, November 25

Week of Nov 23 - No class Thursday Nov 26 - Thanksgiving Holiday
• Historical linguistics: in search of the first language. [outline] [Slides]

Week of Nov 30 - No class Thursday Dec 3 - Study day
• Language, thought and culture.

Final review - study days, exact time and date TBD

Monday, Dec. 14 9:15am - Waltham Speech Project concluding event