70700
Language Science

COURSE OFFERING
Fall 2008
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Center  of The City University of New York

70700 Language Science
Tue 4:15-6:15pm
Rm 7102

Instructor: Valerie Shafer
vshafer@gc.cuny.edu
Office: 7400.14
(212)817-8805

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theoretical constructs, methods and terminology of the Language Sciences. Students will become familiar with the major theoretical approaches (e.g., Principle and Parameters; Non-linear Phonology), and the principal methods (e.g., grammaticality judgments, psycholinguistic experiments), and the basic terminology (e.g., feature, agreement, prototype, cohesion) used in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.
 

Required Textbooks:

Articles:
Tanenhaus
Cairns
Ewen / Van der Hulst
Regional and Social Variation -Students should read this file in preparation for Prof. Gitterman's talk to the class on October 11, 2007.
Bybee1
Hammond and Noonan
Phonological Structure1
Morphemes
Phonological Structure2
Morphology Typology
Why Study Morphology?
Regular Morphology-Bybee
George Lakoff
Stephen Levinson

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