Ling. 2301 (section 003)
Introduction to the Study of Human Language
Spring 2008
Quiz 1 will be at the beginning of class on Thursday, Jan. 24, and will cover the two morphology readings from Tuesday's class.
Quiz 2 will be at the beginning of class on Thursday, Jan. 31, and will cover the two readings on syntax: chapters 13 and 14.
Quiz 3 will be at the begininng of class on Tuesday, February 19, and will cover the online brain and language links from day from Feb. 14 on the class schedule.
Quiz 4 is a short, written group response due by email on Friday, February 29.
These project choices tie together readings from week five, six, and seven, and let you digest and extend the information that you have read about. For your group, choose ONE of these projects to work on (from pp. 682-687 of our textbook):
# 1 (processing differences in different symbol systems)
# 6 (examining the speech of a mother and child)
# 9 (possible effects of a stroke on language ability) or
#12 (exposing children to a second language)
You should work together to turn in one shared response (which should be two pages of typed, double spaced text). You can consult with each other by email or meet together in person. Your group's answer will count as your Quiz 4 grade. The whole group shares the grade. The grade is worth up to five points (like all of the quiz scores). Please have one person turn it in to me by email by 10:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 29 (stvan@uta.edu). All the other people in your group should be cc'ed on the message when the paper is turned in, so that everyone knows it is done!
Quiz 5 will be at the beginning of class on Tuesday, March 25, and will cover information on dialects from the video American Tongues.
Quiz 6 will be at the beginning of class on Tuesday, April 8, and will cover information on Black English covered in class on April 3 and in Ch. 27 and Ch. 28.
For Quiz 8 credit, your last task is to find out about an English-based creole. Choose from among the ones listed on p. 753 of our textbook, or you can choose another that you have encountered a reference to. Start by exploring the resources of www.ethnologue.com, but feel free to use other sources, too. Please note: you should include a parenthetical citation and bibliography page indicating all places that you get your information from.
The goal is to write up one page (typed, double spaced) on an English-based creole of your choice. Find out who speaks it, where it is spoken, why it came into existence, how many speakers there are, what languages it was formed from, and any other linguistic info you can find about your language.
If you have not already done so, reading the McWhorter chapter will likely prove useful as well!
Your one page of information is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, April 24. On that day we'll discuss the McWhorter reading in more detail as well.
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Last Updated: April 22, 2008