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Linguistics 203: Research Methods in Linguistics
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| WEEK | SEMINAR | MATERIALS & ASSIGNMENTS |
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Week 1 September 25 |
Introduction Practical matters: syllabus, readings, expectations High-level matters: why a methods course? Introductory examples illustrating the value of looking at language in use or showing how methods make a difference (various faculty) Corpus case study 1: anatomy plus intro to homework exercise (Levin) |
Assignment 1 Handouts: Using Corpora to Test Claims about Idioms Probing Historical Corpora |
| Week2 October2 |
Using Collections of Data 1 Corpus case study 1 (continued): class discussion of antonymy exercise What you can get and not get from corpora (Manning) --- What corpora are available? What tools are there for exploring them? Corpus case study 2: into to the verb bake plus homework exercise (Levin) |
Assignment 2 Slides: Corpus data |
| Week 3 October 9 |
Using Collections of Data 2 Corpus case study 2 (continued): class discussion plus elaboration (Levin) Corpus case study 3: a historical study of be going to (Traugott) --- Introduce with Lampeter/ICAME corpus --- Homework exercise with Helsinki/ICAME corpus |
Assignment 3 Handout: Going to |
| Week 4 October 16 |
Using Collections of Data 3 Corpus case study 3 (continued): class discussion Case study 4: from anecdotal assessments of a phenomenon to assessments based on massively more data: as far as and grammatical weight as a case study (Wasow) |
Assignment 4 Handout: As far as construction |
| Week 5 October 23 |
Using Collections of Data 4 Case study 4 (continued): heavy NP shift and grammatical weight (Wasow) Case study 5: statistical analysis of a large corpus: the English passive (Manning) Using collections of data wrap-up Introduction to data collection: A child language case study (Clark) |
Assignment 5 Slides: Corpus Studies of Constituent Ordering |
| Week 6 October 30 |
Collecting Specialized Data 1 Experimental design I: child language (Clark) Finding the right experiment to answer your question Designing studies to answer questions and collect converging data Case study: children's compounds |
Assignment 6 |
| Week 7 November 6 |
Collecting Specialized Data 2 Sociolinguistic approaches to language variability and change I (Rickford) Rationale for and relative merits of alternative approaches, focusing on questionnaires, individual interviews and group recordings |
Assignment 7 Handouts: Ways of Studying The Speech Community Reflections on Sociolx field methods Labov's (1988) Chart of Sociolx Community Studies |
| Week 8 November 13 |
Collecting Specialized Data 3 Sociolinguistic approaches to language variability and change II (Eckert) Reasons for studying variability. The ethnographic context |
Assignment 8 |
| Week 9 November 20 |
Collecting Specialized Data 4 Experimental design II: phonetic experiments (Flemming) From a hypothesis to the design and execution of an experiment, to the analysis and interpretation of results Overview of types of phonetic data (accoustic, articulatory, perceptual) and data collection techniques |
Assignment 9 Handout: Phonetic Experiments |
| Week 10 November 27 |
Collecting Specialized Data 5 The challenges of collecting data in the field (Leben) In-class exercise: planning and carrying out and elicitation |
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| Week 11 December 4 |
Week 11: December 4: Last Class Wrap-up; discussion of research mentorships; course evaluations |
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Last modified: July 11, 2003 |
