Topic |
Lessons |
Concepts to Know |
Terms to Know |
Basics of Linguistics |
Lesson 1 |
- The difference between descriptive and prescriptive grammars
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- Descriptive grammar
- Prescriptive grammar
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Phonetics |
Lesson 1-2 |
- IPA Symbols of English based on place/manner of articulation and voicing
- Know your vowel chart as well
- How different sounds are produced
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Voicing
Place of Articulation
- Bilabial
- Labiodental
- Dental
- Alveolar
- Post-Alveolar
- Velar
- Glottal
Manner of Articulation
- Stop
- Affricate
- Fricative
- Glide
- Nasals
- Liquids
Vowel descriptors
- High
- Mid
- Low
- Front
- Central
- Back
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Phonology |
Lessons 3-4 |
- How to determine whether segments belong to the same or separate phonemes
- Natural Classes
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- Complementary distribution
- Contrastive distribution
- Phoneme
- Allophone
Natural Classes
- Sonorant
- Obstruent
- Continuant
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Morphology |
Lesson 5 |
- How to determine morphemes based on a dataset
- Classification of morphemes (free vs. bound)
- Kinds of morphological phenomena (backformation, blends, etc.)
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- Derivation
- Inflection
- Affix
Morphemes
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Syntax |
Lessons 6 – 7 |
- X-bar structure
- Constituency tests
- The different syntactic categories
- Syntactic tranformation rules
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- Constituent
- Modifier
- Complement
- Specifier
- Complementizers
- Deep Structure
- Surface Structure
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Semantics |
Lesson 10 |
- Gricean Maxims
- Entailment
- Presupposition
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- Entailment
- Presupposition
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Historical |
Lesson 11 – 12 |
- How to write Historical Rules
- History of English (esp. contact with other languages)
- Grimm’s Law (don’t have to memorize, just be sure to know the gist and recognize its effects)
- The Great English Vowel Shift;Common Sound Shifts (Table 7.3)
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- Proto-forms
- Proto-language
- General sound change terms
- The Great English Vowel Shift
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Language Acquisition |
Lesson 8 |
- The story of Genie
- General stages of development
- The role of caregiver speech
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- Critical period
- Innateness Hypothesis
- One-word stage
- Two-word stage
- Telegraphic stage
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Language and the Brain |
Lesson 9 |
- The difference between Wernicke’s and Broca’s aphasias
- Right-Ear Advantage
- Dichotic Listening tests
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- Wernicke’s aphasia
- Broca’s aphasia
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Language Variation and Contact |
Lesson 13 – 14 |
- The notion of a “standard” language
- How to describe regional variation
- The difference between a pidgin and a creole
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- Accent
- Dialect
- Pidgin
- Creole
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Writing Systems |
Lesson 15 |
- The different writing systems and their relative histories.
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Writing Systems
- Logographic
- Alphabetic
- Phonographic
Syllabary
Orthography |
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