The readings are organized by topics. Some of the readings are in the required textbook: Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. An Introduction to Language. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Heinle, 2003. ISBN: 0838469523.
Course readings.
| TOPICS |
READINGS |
| Morphology |
Chapter 3, on Morphology, from An Introduction to Language |
| Syntax |
Chapter 4, from An Introduction to Language
Islands and Movement (PDF)
Complements vs. Adjuncts (PDF) |
| Semantics |
An Introduction to Language. pp. 173-201.
Quantifiers and Scope (PDF)
Non-English Binding Phenomena (PDF)
Ambiguous and Vague Meanings (PDF)
Negative and Positive Polarity Items (PDF) |
| Phonetics |
Some pitch contours for the types of sentences listed in the last part of the phonetics problem set (PDF)
Video of Tongue Movement during Vowel Pronunciation
Hints on How to Read Spectrograms |
| Phonology |
An Introduction to Language. pp. 273-291, 324-326. |