Weekly written exercises. Critical exposition of ideas of syntactic theory through detailed presentation of important syntactic constructions of English. Syntax 2 Dahlstrom, Mufwene, Sadock A continuation of Syntax 1. Phonetics Landahl Introduction to the study of speech sounds. Speech sounds will be described with respect to their articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual structures.
Laboratory exercises both in phonetic transcription and in the acoustic analysis of speech sounds.
Semantics-Pragmatics Mufwene, Sadock 308. Phonology 1 Goldsmith Introduction to the concepts of contemporary phonological theory, set against the background of the development of the field in this century. Among the central topics covered are phonemic contrast, phonological derivation, phonological levels, syllable structure, and feature geometry. Phonology 2 Goldsmith Continuation of Phonology 1. Morphology Aronson, Dahlstrom Linguistic structure and patterning beyond the phonological level.