Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Noam Chomsky (1928- )
Linguistics 20: Introduction to Linguistics
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Prof. Bruce
Hayes Department of Linguistics UCLA
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Most of the material on this site is in Adobe PDF format. To
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Students please contact me at the email address above if there is any trouble downloading these files.
I have a couple of hints on how to use this
material.
Current chapters:
Class 1, 10/2/06 What is Linguistics?/Morphology I
Class 2, 10/4/06 Morphology II
Class 3, 10/9/06 String operations in morphology/normative beliefs
Class 4, 10/11/06 Syntax I: phras structure
Class 5, 10/16/06 Phrase structure rules, recursion, case marking and agreement
Class 6, 10/18/06 Transformations, subcategorization
Class 7, 10/23/06 Wh- movement
Class 8, 10/25/06 Long distance movement/Islands I
Class 9, 10/30/06 Islands II/The scientific context of grammatical analysis
Class 10, 11/1/06 Review of morphology and phrase structure
(no class 11; this was the midterm) Midterm answer key
Class 12, 11/8/06 Semantics I
Class 13, 11/13/06 Semantics II/Phonetics I
Class 14, 11/15/06 Phonetics II; features [ Sound files for all examples in this reading ]
Class 15, 11/20/06 Phonemic analysis
Class 16, 11/22/06 Optional rules in phonology; phonology-morphology interaction
Class 17, 11/27/06 Neutralization; rule ordering; organization of grammar
Class 18, 11/29/06 Historical linguistics I: descent, sound change, the Comparative Method
Class 19, 12/4/06: Historical linguistics II: Indo-European, reconstructed environments, borrowing, grammatical simplification
Class 20, 12/6/06: Applications and outlook; review problems
Homework #3, Persian Phrase Structure (etc.) [original Microsoft Word document: cut and paste from this if you like]
Homework #4: Long Distance Rules and the Coordinate Structure Constraint
Homework #7: Phonetics II; Features;
Phonemes
[Sound files for the transcription
part of this homework]
[Perhaps also
useful, if you use Excel: course
feature chart in Excel format]
Files for Homework #6 (transcription)
(a) desks
(b) thrash
(c) treasure
(d) purloin
(e) antenna
(f) chip
(g) anchor
Sound files for Homework #7 (separate page)
Five more sound files, from the final review session.
Principles of linguistics problem set answers, a brief guide
Solving problems with phrase structure rules (by Ben Keil)
The Ethnologue: massive Web-based list of the languages of the world with basic data (where spoken, number of speakers, genetic affiliation, references) for each entry
Word processing with free phonetic fonts (BH font information page)
Bruce Hayes's Web Page (research projects, other courses I teach)