Language Variation and Change

Lecture Notes

[Note: Not all class sessions have an associated lecture file.] 

SES #	Lectures
1	Lecture 1: Introduction (PDF)
2	Lecture 2: Geographical Variation - Transcription (PDF - 1.7 MB)
3	Lecture 3: Overview of Accent Variation in the USA (PDF - 2.4 MB)
4	Lecture 4: Speech Acoustics (PDF - 4.4 MB)
6	Lecture 5: What Are the Units of Sound Change? (PDF - 1.8 MB)
7	Lecture 6: Regular Sound Change vs. Lexical Diffusion (PDF)
9	Lecture 7: Age-Related Variation (PDF)
10	Lecture 8: Social Variation (PDF - 1.1 MB)
11	Lecture 9: Variation within the Individual and Modeling Sound Change (PDF - 1.6 MB)
12	Lecture 10: The Role of the Listener in Sound Change (PDF - 1.7 MB)
14	Lecture 11: An Exemplar-Based Model of Sound Change (PDF - 1.3 MB)
15	Lecture 12: Phonetic Grammar and Gradual Change (PDF - 1.0 MB)
25	Lecture 13: Syntactic Change (PDF)
26	Lecture 14: Syntactic Change II (PDF)