Weeks 1 and 2
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Animal sounds in many languages: http://www.quack-project.com/table.cgi
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html
Link to sound files with long/short vowels/consonants
Week 3
handout #4
Note change in assignment #2: Omit 22.
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Solution
Week 4
handout #6
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Solution
HW #4
Sound file for
LF exercise
3.6 #25
Solution
Week 5
handout #8
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Solution
HW #6
Sound file for
LF exercise
3.6 #35
Solution
Week 6
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Speech accent archive - samples of English spoken by native speakers of a wide variety of languages
Week 7
handout #10
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Week 8
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
[answers] |
HW #7
Assignment [pdf]
[Note: Look at the
practice exercises
to the left before
doing this assignment.]
Solution
HW #8
Assignment: [pdf]
A, B, and C
(odd numbers only)
Week 9
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Powerpoint links:
| Review sheet (1) | |
| Review sheet (2) | |
| Practice exercises for the exam - some answers | |
| Review sheet for in-class review |
|
Assignment [pdf]
A, B, and C
(even numbers
only); plus D
Solution
Week 10
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Week 11
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
be collected
on April 8.
Week 12
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Hear Labov on Northern Cities Shift
New Yawk Talk
NPR interview of William Labov on his 40-year study of the various accents of New York City
Labov: "How I got into linguistics... "
HW #10
due April 8
HW #11
due April 11
Assignment
Please report the
answers by filling out
this Excel spreadsheet
(if possible) and upload
it to the CAS file server.
Be sure to get information
about your subject
(first name, age,
where he/she was born,
grew up, and lived most
recently).
Week 13
Special Event on Translation and Interpretation: April 14, 2008 at 7 PM
EXTRA CREDIT for attending - just indicate that you did so on the bottom of Journal entry # 6.
See Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=40854170120
sponsored by the BU undergrad Linguistics Association (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200303909)
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Solution
Week 14
handout #25
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Listen: http://roberteklund.info/PNG-TokPisin.htm http://bilbo.ling.su.se/staff/evali/TokPisin/Meri_i_kamap_ston.html
Week 15
supplementary
info, links, and
HW solutions
Cumulative Final Exam
May 6, 2008, 9-11 AM
LSE B01