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Lecture: Introduction to Language and Linguistics 

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Dear All,

Many thanks for your cooperation and your involvement that have made this class work, despite the, shall we say, less than ideal conditions. The good news is that of all of you who followed the course to the end, you have at the very least passed and, in so very many cases, done really well.
By now you will (should?) have received the notification from KSL with your grade. But just to  be "completist" you will also find your overall result here.
Congratulations to all of you and here's hoping that our paths will cross again in the coming semester, my last, and that the crossing will take place on campus!
All my best wishes for the end of this year and beginning of a new and better one!

Franz

Introduction

This page contains the material that we cover in the sessions of the lecture, i.e the PowerPoint presentation and the link to the podcast.
It also contains or references to it ("pages of  booklet"), which are required reading and study material.
All of the above, script, podcast and Powerpoint presentations must be covered, especially if students miss a session.
In the last column there are links to PDFs with excerpts from other textbooks which cover the same ground as we have dealt with in class, often from a different angle. It is useful for students to be aware of alternative approaches to the topics which the lecture covers, which is why such further reading is very important for an understanding of the concepts we deal with in this course.

The Script/Workbook

IPA Symbols

If needs be install the phonetics fonts on your computers.
And here is a Word document and a PDF file with  the IPA symbols for copy-pasting if you have not been able(willing?) to install the IPA fonts.
Content
 pages of booklet
(MUST-READ)
 PowerPoint Presentation
 Podcast Link
 Further reading /
additional material

Session 14: Pragmatics 2

Turn-taking, FTAs and the Cooperative P
191 - 204
Powerpoint Show
14. Pragmatics 2

Podcast 13Reading Material:
And these classics:
Key Exercises: Chapter 7


Session 13: Pragmatics 1

Introduction to Macrolinguistics concepts
communication
speech act theory
168 - 191
Powerpoint Show
13. Pragmatics 1

Podcast 13Read
  • Chapter 2 'Some Tentative Axioms of Human Communication'  by  Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson is available on Google Books
  • Allwood 1977 on Speech Act Theory

Session 12: Syntax 2

Syntactic anaylses, Deep and Surface Structure and Transformations, Language typologies based on functional structure
146 - 164
Powerpoint Show
12. Syntax 2

Podcast 12
Key Exercises: Chapter 6

Key Exercise 5.





Session 11: Syntax 1

Levels of and approaches to clause and sentence analysis
Constituents and structure "trees"		134-146
Powerpoint Show
11. Syntax 1


Podcast 11
Read
  • Kortmann (2005) for a broader view of syntax and grammar
  • Radford et al, 247-307 for another approach to synactic analysis.

Session 10: Semantics 2


Fuzziness, prototypes, figurative language and 		113-127
Powerpoint Show
10. Semantics 2

Podcast 10

Apologies: This is last year's lecture podcast, rather than a recording of the present session. The reason is that I must have forgotten to activate the recording.
Key Exercises: Chapter 5
Exercise 5 Solutions




Session 9: Semantics 1

Introduction to word meaning and meaning relations
102 - 113
Powerpoint Show
9. Semantics: Word meanings and meaning relations
Podcast 9
Read
 And here is an interesting popular science article on why the words for Mother and Father seem so similar in most languages.

Session 8: Morphology 2: Word building continued

  • Inflectional vs derivational morphology
  • Compounding and compounds
  • Word wuilding overview
87 - 96
Powerpoint Show
8. Morphology and types of word formation

Podcast 8


Read
  • Radford et al. (2009) 125-165
One of your colleagues suggested this link about "lexical gaps" used for the naming of game characters

Key Exercises: Chapter 4

Session 7: Morphology 1: Words and how to build them

  • Word vs. lexeme/lexical Item
  • Morphemes
  • Affixation and its productivity

Organisational Points

  1. Please check your emails for the form of the Mini-Exam (PDF and Word). It will be sent out at 8:00 sharp
  2. Return the filled in form by 8:30; the document must be named exactly as stated in instruction email.
  3. The lecture will be online as a Zoom session a
    Zoom Meeting Link
  4. You will be able to view the podcast after the session. However, it will not be navigable as comfortably as the podcasts have been up to now.
80 - 87
(4.1 - 4.2.3)
Powerpoint Show
7. Morphology of Word Formations


 Podcast 7
 For a comprehensive overview of affixes in English check this website.

Session 6: Phonology 2: Suprasegmental phonology

  • Phonotactics and syllable structure
  • Feet and timing
  • Stress and intonation
66-73
(3.3)
Powerpoint Show
6. Suprasegmental Phonology

 		Podcast 6
Read
   Key Exercises Chapter 3


Session 5: Phonology 1: Segments

  • Phonemes vs. Allophones
  • Segments in fluent speech
58-66
(3.1. - 3.2.2.)
Powerpoint Show:
5. Phonemes, allophones and segements in fluent Speech

Podcast 5
Read
  • Kuiper and Allan (2010): pp. 146-164
  • Radford et al.(2009) pp.75-78
    for an insight into the
    English phoneme system
Last year one of the students found this very useful site to practice descriptions and IPA symbols
(remark: in the vowel descriptions "tense" stands for "long" and "lax" for "short" vowels)

Session 4:
Describing Vowels

  • Descriptive parameters of vowels
  • Standard Lexical Sets and vowels in Standard Englishes (RP and GenAM)
  • Diphthongs and Triphthongs

44-51

(2.3.2)
Powerpoint Show:
4. Describing Vowels


Podcast 4
Key Exercises Chapter 2

And for your smartphone a number of interesting phonetics practice apps

Cue Cards (print out each double sided) to practice IPA signs and descriptors for
And here is  an entertaining link to "applied phonetics":

Session 3:
Describing Consonants

Chapter 2

  • How to represent spoken language in writing:
  • The need for an International Phonetic Alphabet IPA
  • How to describe consonants
36-44

(2.1. - 2.3.1)

PDFs of Sessions 1 to 3
(The reprinted scripts are available at the Secretriat)
Powerpoint Show:
3. Describing Consonants
 Podcast 3
The complete IPA chart with sounds files

Further Reading:
Cue cards to practice IPA symbols and descriptions of consonants

Session 2:
What is Language and
What is Linguistics

Chapter 1

27-35

(1.1.7 - 1.5)

PFD for today's session
Powerpoint Show
2. What is Linguistics

Podcast 2


Further Reading:
Brief Overview (Centre of Applied Linguistics)
Cf. also Kuiper and Allan (2010) pp. 1-26

Key Exercises Chapter 1

Session 1:
What is language?

Chapter 1
7-26

(1.1 - 1.1.5)
Powerpoint Show
1. What is Language?

Podcast 1
Further reading:
Fromkin et al. "What is Language?"

And some interesting thoughts on "Language"

 
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