Please note that this semester's course will be video-recorded and made available to the general public
via NTU's Open Course Ware (OCW) site at http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/

CET 大師開講 articles on English pronunciation learning
Eight Lessons In Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音八講
Phonetic Detail in the Teaching of Mandarin Pronunciation by Chris Wen-Chao Li (transcribing Mandarin in IPA)
List of languages and linguists for 6-page paper Paper is due December 11!
How to check your English grammar BEFORE submitting any assignment:
    Using Google as a Usage Barometer, by Jerome C. Su.
English linguistics glossaries (please report any dead links)
English-Chinese linguistics glossaries (please report any dead links)
SIL's Ethnologue
Some useful references on languages and history of linguistics
The LINGUIST List site: Subscribe to LINGUIST or LINGLITE, read LINGUIST online, or use LINGUIST resources
The Linguistic Society of Taiwan 台灣語言學學會,
    the Taiwan Linguist Discussion List 台灣語言學討論區, and
    the Student Committee, Linguistics Society of Taiwan (LST).

Basic course information: This is a required two-semester course for 2nd year DFLL students and an elective course for students enrolled in the Neurological-Cognitive Studies Program 神經認知學程; 3 credits per semester; class is held once a week, Wednesday, periods 3, 4, and @, 10:20am to 1:10pm, in Putong Classroom 普306.

Class meetings (16):  2013
September: 11, 18, 25
October: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
November: 6, 13, 20, 27
December: 4, 11, 18, 25

2014: Last day of semester: Friday, January 3, 2014
Final exam: January 8, 2014

Textbook: McGregor, William. Linguistics, An Introduction. London & New York: Continuum, 2009. Available at Crane’s Books 文鶴106 台北市大安區金山南路二段200號8樓, 2393-4497 ext.708
http://www.crane.com.tw/ec99/crane/GoodsDescr.asp?category_id=52&parent_id=42&prod_id=0020853
(ask for class discount).
Textbook website: http://mcgregor.continuumbooks.net/

Resources and requirements: Supplements to the textbook will be provided on the class website. All students will be expected to bring questions on the assigned reading to class, so finishing the reading before attending class is absolutely necessary, though we may do some reading aloud from the textbook in class. Students must submit a written summary of each two or three chapters in the textbook. You will be assigned one CET 大師開講 article (in Chinese) per week (14 issues total); the content of these will come up in class often and will be included in the mid-term and final. Pop quizzes may be given at any time to test your understanding of the assigned reading. A written class- and self-evaluation shall be submitted near the end of the semester.

      Due dates for written assignments:

Summary of chapters 1 and 2: Due October 16
Summary of chapters 3 and 8: Due November 20
Summary of chapters 13, 11 and 12
     and Class- and self-evaluation: Due December 25
Pinyin quizzes: First: October 2; Second: October 30;
     also on Mid-term and Final Exams
Mandarin IPA transcription exercise: Due October 16
6-page paper: Due December 11
You will receive extra credit if you read at least one chapter of a linguistics book of your choice (a few suggestions here; more here, here, and here) and submit a short written summary; you may read as many of these as you like

      A 6-page paper on (a) two languages (2 pages on each language, 1-1/2 spacing; the first language you will be assigned; the second will be chosen by you, but it must be genetically unrelated to the first); and (b) a comparison of the two languages (1 page); and (c) one linguist (1 page) will be required.
      A mid-term and final exam will be given.

Fall 2013
There will be a total of 16 class meetings plus a day for the final exam this semester.
We will cover the following chapters of the textbook in this order:

1.   Introduction (What is Linguistics?)
2.   Sounds of Language: Phonetics and Phonology
3.   Structure of Words: Morphology
8.   Psycholinguistics: Language, the Mind and the Brain
13. Languages of the World
11. Unity and Diversity in Language Structure (Typology)
12. Language Change (Historical Linguistics)

     The textbook will be finished in Professor Gao Zhao-ming's 高照明老師 class next semester. Note that you MUST take Prof. Gao's section Spring semester to complete this course, because a different textbook will be used in the other section.

Spring 2014
Instructor: Prof. Gao Zhaoming 高照明老師

4.   Lexicon
5.   Structure of Sentences: Syntax
6.   Meaning (Semantics)
14. Computational Linguistics (not from the textbook)
7.   Sociolinguistics: Language in its Social Context
9.   Language Acquisition
10. Language in its Biological Context


Week-to-week class outline
(subject to CHANGE; new items will be added each week)

September 11:
1. Music: Sami singer Mari Boine; Sami languages (Uralic: spoken in Norway, Sweden, Finland, NW Russia)
2. Introduction
3. Make sure you have a textbook next class!
4. YouTube: What is linguistics?
5. TEDx talk by Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies (Koro)
6. Download, print out, and complete (with paper and pen!) this tutorial
    (even if you have done it before you will need to review):
    Eight Lessons In Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音八講
7. Reading: Chapter 1: Introduction; read entire chapter and bring two questions to class next Wednesday;
    CHECK all the words you don't know, including the pronunciation!
    We will go over some of the material in class, but you need to come prepared!
8. Pronunciation: CET 1 (issue #69)
9. Sharing: Your language background and experience with language in 3 sentences

September 18:
1. Music: Breton singer Denez Prigent: An Hini A Garan (Indo-European/Celtic/Brythonic; spoken in Brittany in NW France)
2. McGregor, Chapter 1: Introduction.
3. Ask your questions on Chapter 1.
4. Pronunciation: CET 2 (issue #70)
5. Do these written exercises for Chapter One: 3, 5, 7, 9. 10, 11, 13. Due October 2.
6. For reference: Hypercorrection in Taiwan Mandarin.
7. For reference: Contraction and Backgrounding in Taiwan Mandarin.
8. For reference: Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1910-1911)
    ed. and transl. by Eisuke Komatsu & Roy Harris.
9. Format for name on homework – in upper right hand corner, left justified:

    Mary Lin 林玉梅
    B01102000
    Introduction to Linguistics
    September 18, 2013

    FONTS:
    Use Times New Roman 12 pt for text,
    Lucida Sans Unicode 10.5 pt for IPA symbols,
    新細明體 12 pt for Chinese.

September 25:
1. Music: Rokia Traoré from Mali, singing M'Bifo and other songs in Bambara (Niger-Congo/Mandé/Manding);
    album: Bowmboï
2. Assign Linguist and Language for 6-page paper; email your choice of a second language,
    which is to be unrelated to the first, to write about to Ms. Chung and Carol.
3. McGregor: Finish chapter 1.
4. Ethnologue
5. Dictionary of Taiwan Sign Language
6. Pronunciation: CET 3 (issue #71)
7. Do these written exercises for Chapter One: 3, 5, 7, 9. 10, 11, 13. Due October 2.

October 2:
1. Music: Altazor: Spanish/Latin American, but California-based.
2. Make sure you have submitted the name of the second language you are reporting on in your 6-page paper!
    PLEASE don't put assignments off till the last minute – it makes things difficult for the instructor and TA! –
    and DON'T submit LATE!
3. Watch your email format! Here is a sample showing you how it should be done.
    All emails should be sent to both Ms. Chung and our TA, Carol Fang.
4. First Pinyin quiz – come prepared! (Then review so you do better next time...)
5. Go over and hand in answers to exercises for Chapter One: 3, 5, 7, 9. 10, 11, 13.
6. McGregor, Chapter 2: Sounds of Language: Phonetics and Phonology.
7. Guest speaker Terry Hsieh 謝智翔 at 12:10pm; Terry will speak about learning Quechua/Kichwa in Ecuador
8. Pronunciation: CET 4 (issue #72)

October 9:
1. Music: Georgian Voices: "Earth and Heaven" მიწა და ზეცა Mits'a da zetsa.
    Sung in Georgian (South Caucasian/Kartvelian);
    other major Geogian singing groups: Rustavi and Zedashe (Ms. Chung's teachers)
2. Quick Pinyin quiz. If you got a score below 90%, REVIEW the 漢語拼音八講 tutorial CAREFULLY.
    The next Pinyin quiz will be in the MIDTERM on November 20.
3. McGregor: Chapter 2, part 1.
4. The Fantastic Voyage. See the vocal folds in action close up:
    http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/youngexp/fantasticvoyage.html
5. Pronunciation: CET 5 (issue #73)
6. Summary of chapters 1 and 2, due October 16; must include main points of CET 1-5.
    If you haven't been keeping up your readings of the CET articles, plan to read and summarize
    one every day this week; the articles are short but the content is dense and IMPORTANT!
    Besides helping you a lot with your English learning, they will also help you understand ch. 2 better.
7. How to check your English grammar BEFORE submitting any assignment:
    Using Google as a Usage Barometer, by Jerome C. Su.
8. Download and play around with WASP software.
    Try out its four modes: 1. Waveform; 2. Wideband spectrogram; 3. Narrowband spectrogram; and 4. Pitch track.    
    Record any sentence you like, print out the WAVEFORM (turn off the other modes,
    or the waveform will be too small to see clearly), and submit it with your chapter summaries.
    If you can't think of a sentence, just record: "My two boys know how to fish." (from Ladefoged, p. 18),
    or its Chinese translation, or both.
    Try marking segments of the waveform (left-click for the lefthand boundary, right-click for the righthand boundary)
    and listen to each one, so you can hear each individual sound and match it to how it looks as a waveform.

October 16:
1. Music: Värttinä – Seleniko: Seelennikoi, Kyla vuotti uutta kuuta, Sulhassii; Aitara: Maamo; Finnish (Uralic/Finnic; spoken      in Finland, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway)
2. Submit a. summaries of chapters 1 and 2, b. main points of CET 1 through CET 5,
    c. together with the WASP assignment.
3. McGregor, Chapter 2, part 2 – finish the chapter.
4. Transcribing Mandarin in IPA. Use this as your standard:
    Phonetic Detail in the Teaching of Mandarin Pronunciation by Chris Wen-Chao Li;
    Print out pages 3 and 4 for use in class and in doing your homework.
5. Pronunciation: CET 6 (issue #74)

October 23:
1. Music: Urna Chahar-Tugchi 烏仁娜: Hödööd; 2, 3, 4, 5. Mongolian (Mongolic; some say it belongs
    to the Altaic phylum of languages, which also includes Turkic,
    Tungusic [e.g. Manchu], and possibly even Korean and Japanese)
2. Correct Mandarin IPA transcription practice exercise.
3. Finish McGregor, Chapter 2.
4. McGregor Chapter 3, Part 1: Structure of Words: Morphology.
5. Pronunciation: CET 7 (issue #75)
6. Three tutorials on voicing, plosives, and VOT
7. Answer questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of the exercises for chapter 2; to be handed in 10/30.

October 30:
1. Music: Amal Murkus (Palestinian): Amal; La Ahada Yalam (No One Knows); Taalu (Come on Poet);
    Hekaye; Hjar Foq Hjar; Hulum; Asfur; Dunia Lwan; Ya Ba La La;
    Arabic (Afro-Asiatic/Semitic/Central Semitic)
2. a. Summaries of chapters 3 and 8 plus main points of CET 6-9 are due November 13;
    b. Mid-term is on November 20;
    c. Paper on two languages and one linguist is due on November 27.
3. Go over and hand in answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of the exercises for chapter 2.
    NEW! Reference transcriptions for question one of the Ch 2 Exercises
4. McGregor, Chapter 3, Part 2.
5. Pronunciation: CET 8 (issue #76)

November 6:
1. Music: Jacques Brel (Belgian; French-speaking Flemish): Amsterdam; Le plat pays; Orly;
    Le diable: Ça va; Sur la place; Ne me quittes pas
    French: Indo-European/Italic/Romance/Western Romance/Oïl; spoken in 29 countries
2. Hand in corrected answers to exercises for ch 2 of McGregor.
3. Finish McGregor Chapter 3, Part 3;
    start Chapter 8, Part 1.
4. Exercises for McGregor, Chapter 3: Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, plus these two questions:
    12. Give five examples each: (a) free morphemes, and (b) bound morphemes in Mandarin Chinese.
           Is the distinction between the two always clear-cut?
    13. How do you determine what is and what is not a "word" in Chinese?
    Due November 13.
5. Pronunciation: CET 9 (issue #77)

November 13:
1. Music: Sangpuy 盧皆興, Samingad 紀曉君, and Balikewas 陸森寶 (Puyuma 卑南) Dalan 路;
    Grand Creator 崇高的創造者;  Senay na vali 風之歌;   malikasaw 快樂搖擺; 2012出口音樂節;  
    Samingad 紀曉君 - Beautiful Rice Grains (美麗的稻穗)  version 2 sung by Balikewas 陸森寶;  
    Samingad 紀曉君 - 神話          Puyuma 卑南語: Austronesian (Formosan)
2. Hand in exercises for Chapter 3.
3. McGregor: Chapter 8, part 2.
4. Pronunciation: CET 10 (issue #78)
5. Exercises for Chapter 8, summaries of chapters 3 and 8,
    plus main points of CET 6-10; due November 20.

Videos, Books, Web pages:
6. TED Talk: Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
7. Thinking Fast and Slow:  Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind
8. Sapir-Whorf Grammar of Happiness with Daniel Everett
9. a. A Colorful Introduction to the Anatomy of the Human Brain: A Brain and Psychology Coloring Book
    b. The Human Brain Coloring Book
10. Clear definitions of affix, root, stem base
11. FB discussion on "free morphemes" and "bound morphemes"
12. ppt slide show on morphemes and information value
13. Online language identifying game
14. FOXP2: A "language gene"?   The Disorder is not grammar or speech-specific: Geoffrey Pullum
15. Broca's area and Wernicke's area

November 20:
1. Music: More Austronesian languages this week, in Putumayo's "South Pacific Islands" CD:
    Iuliana by Te Vaka: Tokelau/Samoa/New Zealand;
    Mana Ma'Ohi by Matato'a: Rapa Nui/Easter Island); Abebe in Tolai by Telek: Papua New Guinea;
    Nengone Nodegu by OK! Ryos: New Caledonia; Haloa Olohega by Te Vaka;
    Watolea by Gurujele: New Caledonia; Co Era So by OK! Ryos; Nukukehe by Te Vaka;
    Wahine Whakairo by Whirimako Black: New Zealand.
2. Carol: Comments on homework. Also, discussion on mid-term.
3. McGregor, finish Chapter 8, part 3.
4. Supplementary material for chapter 8 from McGregor text website:
    1. 8.1 — Subtraction paradigm in brain imaging 2. Links
5. Submit exercises for Chapter 8, summaries of chapters 3 and 8,
    plus main points of CET 6-10.
6. Pronunciation: CET 11 (issue #79)

November 27:
1. Music: Lena Platonos Λένα Πλάτωνος with Savina Yannatou Σαββίνα Γιαννάτου
    (Greek ελληνικά)     YouTube Mix   Aithousa Anamonis
    To Koperti    Mia Askete Fisikes Alete (spoken)
    Indo-European/Hellenic/Greek
2. Mid-term exam on McGregor, chapters 1, 2, 3, 8 and CET 1-10.
3. McGregor, Chapter 13, part 1.
4. Pronunciation: CET 12 (issue #80)

December 4:
1. Music: Australian aboriginal music with didgeridoo; song mix.
    Wikipedia on Austalian aboriginal languages: "In the late 18th century,
    there were between 350 and 750 distinct Aboriginal social groupings,
    and a similar number of languages or dialects. At the start of the 21st century,
    fewer than 150 indigenous languages remain in daily use, and all except roughly 20
    are highly endangered." Warlpiri and Tiwi are two of the strongest surviving languages.
2. McGregor, Chapter 13, part 2.
3. Write out the answers to exercises 1, 6, and 7,
    but carefully read all of the questions for Chapter 13, due 12/11.
4. Pronunciation: CET 13 (issue #81)

December 11:
1. Music: Low German/Plattdeutsch: Plattdeutsche Lieder by Knut Kiesewetter un sien heel Verwantdtschaft:
    1. Fresenhof, De Haubarg, Keen Minsch wuss wo dat geiht, De Buer un de Knech;
    2. Mien Gott he kann keen Plattdutsch mehr 3. Plattdeutsch mix
2. Can you understand this? What language do you think it is?
3. 6-page paper due!  Bibliography does NOT count in the six pages! MLA bibliographic format
    See September 18 for format of name and student number, to go in upper right-hand corner of p. 1.
    Center the title of your paper, in boldface type, at the top of p. 1:

Paper on Linguist: Otto Jespersen
Overview and comparison of: Estonian and Hmong

4. Go over exercises for Chapter 13.
5. McGregor, Chapter 11, part 1.
6. Write out answers to exercises 1, 2, 7, 9, 11b, 11c, and 11d for chapter 11. Due December 18.
7. Class- and self-evaluation due January 3. Also submit your 6-page paper in pdf format!
    Email to Ms. Chung at: feathermountain@gmail.com
    AND to our academic TA Carol (Chiao-ting) Fang 方巧庭 at: b97102087@ntu.edu.tw
    Subject line: Intro to ling evaluation. Must be in pdf format!
8. Pronunciation: CET 14 (issue #82). (This is the last CET article currently available, as of Dec. 2013.)

December 18:
1. Music: Mbira music from Zimbabwe: (1) Forward Kwenda on FB: Tadzungaira; Mbavarira; Nhemamusasa;
    Mandarendare;
    (2) Albert Chimedza on FB: Bangiza; Mukaitiende; Vamwene (Mother in Law); Vaenda;
    (3) Erica Azim's mbira.org
    Shona: Niger–Congo/Atlantic–Congo/Benue–Congo/Southern Bantoid/Bantu/Shona
2. McGregor, Chapter 11, part 2; Chapter 12, part 1.
3. Chaper 12: READ ALL of the exercises, especially 10.
    Do exercises 3, 9 (help from Wikipedia is OK!), 11. Due December 25.

December 25:
1. Music: Christmas music from around the world: 1. Aramaic: Hweili Isho' Halleluyah (Christ is Born):
    2. Huron/Wendat and French: The Huron Carol; 3. Galician: Nadal de luintra;
    4. Czech: Hajej, nynej, Ježišku       Czech text read aloud by Pavel Sticka
    5. Scottish Gaelic: Taladh Chriosda; 6. Georgian: Alilo; 7. French: Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jesus
2. Exercises and your papers will be returned to you; make sure you go over both and note
    areas where there's room for improvement. The final may include questions similar to ones on the mid-term.
3. Chapter 12, part 2.
4. Go over and submit answers to exercises 3, 9, and 11 of Chapter 12.
5. Submit summaries of chapters 13, 11 and 12, and CET articles 11, 12, 13 and 14.
6. Class- and self-evaluation due January 3. Also submit your 6-page paper in pdf format!
    Email to Ms. Chung at: feathermountain@gmail.com
    AND to our academic TA Carol (Chiao-ting) Fang 方巧庭 at: b97102087@ntu.edu.tw
    Subject line: Intro to ling evaluation. Must be in pdf format!
7. Review, questions, catch-up. Please help out anybody who missed class today due to DFLL Night!
8. International Christmas carol sing, if there's time. Christmas carol lyrics   pdf

January 8, 2014: Final exam.

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