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Reading for this week:
Contemporary Linguistics, p. 1- 12 (Ch.1) and p. 15 – 24 (Ch. 2)

Things to know:

• What is Linguistics?
• The difference between Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar
• The places of articulation
• Voicing
• How to determine the number of segments in a word

Tutorials:

• Understanding Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar
• Understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet
• ScreenCast Tutorials–>Please note: Support for ScreenCast has expired along with Adobe Flash. Text-only versions of the video tutorials are forthcoming.
  • What are segments?
  • Factors of Consonants Part 1
  •  How to write IPA symbols in Word

Homework:

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