Contents

 
• Tutors
• Participants (Gibbon)
• Course announcement
• Unit 0, 16.10.97: Welcome
  • Timetable
  • Timetable (Revised - Gibbon)
  • Notes on student group reports
  • Preparation/Homework
• Unit 1, 23.10.97: What is Language?
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Linguistic knowledge
    • Linguistic knowledge and performance
    • What is grammar?
    • Language universals
    • Animal ``Languages''
    • In the beginning: the origin of language
    • What we know about language
    • Food for thought
    • Terminology
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • What is Language? - Overview
    • What is Language?
    • What is Linguistics?
    • Analysis
    • Words and Syllables
    • Sound Distinctions
    • Pronunciation vs. Spelling
    • Exercises from Fromkin & Rodman Ch.1
    • Student Group Report
• Unit 2, 30.10.97: Morphology
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Dictionaries
    • Classes of Words
    • Wordsets
    • Morphemes: The Minimal Units of Meaning
    • Rules of Word Formation
    • Word Coinage
    • Grammatical Morphemes
    • Terminology
    • Overview of morphology
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Some Preliminary Questions
    • Preliminary Exercise
    • Morphology
    • Morphemes and Morphs
    • Exercises
    • Some Additional Literature and Links
    • Student Group Report
• Unit 3a, 06.11.97: Syntax I
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Grammatical or Ungrammatical
    • What else do you know about syntax?
    • Sentence structure
    • Phrase structure rules
    • The lexicon
    • Transformational rules
    • Recursion revisisted
    • More about sentence structure
    • Types of language
    • Terminology
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Syntax = Sentence Syntax
    • Competence vs. Performance
    • Some examples
    • Student Group Report
• Unit 3b, 13.11.97: Syntax II
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Domain
    • Method
    • Formulation
    • Words and rules
    • Generative grammar
    • Definitions of `sentence'
    • A syntactic poem in German
    • The WORD -- grammar and lexicon
    • Syntax online links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Phrase Structure Rules
    • Exercises from Fromkin & Rodman Ch.3.
• Unit 4, 20.11.97: Semantics
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Word Meaning
    • Phrase and Sentence Meaning
    • When Rules are Broken
    • Discourse Meaning
    • Pragmatics
    • Terminology
    • Semantics online links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Semantics
    • Ambiguity
    • Example
    • Some exercises
    • Exercises from Fromkin & Rodman Ch.4.
    • Student Group Report
• Unit 5, 27.11.97: Phonetics
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Sound Segments
    • Spelling and Speech
    • Articulatory Phonetics
    • Phonetic Symbols for American English Consonants
    • Terminology
    • Phonetics Online Links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Phonetics
    • Student Group Report
• Unit 6, 04.12.97: Phonology
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Phonemes: The Phonological Units of Language
    • Distinctive Features
    • Sequential Constraints
    • Natural Classes
    • More On Prosodic Phonology
    • The Rules of Phonology
    • The Pronunciation of Morphemes
    • Terminology
    • Phonology Online Links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Phonology
    • Student Group Report
    • Exercises
• Unit 7, 11.12.97: Language in Society
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Dialects
    • Dialects of English
    • The ``Standard''
    • Black English
    • Hispanic English
    • Lingua Francas
    • Pidgin and Creoles
    • Styles, Slang, and Jargon
    • Taboo or not Taboo?
    • Language and Sexism
    • Terminology
    • Online Links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Some examples
    • Student Group Report
    • Exercises
• Unit 8, 18.12.97: Language Change
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • The Regularity of Sound Change
    • Phonological Change
    • Morphological Change
    • Syntactic Change
    • Lexical Change
    • Reconstructing ``Dead'' Languages
    • The Genetic Classification of Languages
    • Why Do Languages Change?
    • Languages of the World
    • Terminology
    • Online Links
  • Notes (Berndsen)
    • Language Change
    • Student Group Report
    • Some links to further material on the Web
    • Exercises
• Unit 9, 08.01.97: Writing: The ABCs of Language
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • The History of Writing
    • Modern Writing Systems
    • Writing and Speech
    • Spelling
    • Terminology
• Unit 10, 15.01.98: Language Acquisition
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Stages in Language Acquisition
    • Theories of Child Language Acquisition
    • The Biological Foundations of Language Acquisition
    • Learning a Second (or Third or ...) Language
    • Can Chimps Learn Human Language?
    • Terminology
    • Language Acquisition Online Links
• Unit 11, 22.01.98: Human Processing: Brain, Mind and Language
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • The Human Brain
    • The Evolution of Language
    • The Autonomy of Language
    • The Linguistic Mind at Work: Human Language Processing
    • Terminology
• Unit 12, 29.01.98: Computer Processing of Human Language
  • Notes (Gibbon)
    • Machine Translation
    • Text Processing
    • Computers That Talk and Listen
    • Computer Models of Grammars
    • Language and Artificial Intelligence
    • Terminology
• Discussion, 05.02.98
• Klausur, 10.02.98
• References