Extra material linked to the essay titles

Crystal: the age of language

Effects of ageing on perception and cognition

How do listeners represent sociolinguistic knowledge

Imitating Accents or Speech Styles

Nativeness and non-nativeness

Voice changes and ability to replicate foreign accent - Eva, you might be particularly interested in this one!

Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town - this could be particularly useful to those of you writing about identity and language.

Essay Deadline Submission

Dear all,

This is a reminder for your essay deadline, which falls at 4 pm on Monday, 20th May 2013.

As agreed, I am going to look at your thesis statements and topic sentences on Friday; please prepare any questions you might have.

Good luck!

Katie

Two languages, two identities

Attached:

Two languages, two identities

Extra articles for your essays

Dear all,

Please find some extra articles that might be useful for your essays attached below. I will scan the badly scanned pages from Crystal in the evening and post them on the blog.

Article by Carmen Llamas

Speech and Language Community

Sociophonetics

A dissertation on (among others) interesting aspects of sociolinguistics

Happy reading

Katie

Videos about language changes

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydjIOZPfGEA

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9C5AHZKkk

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDKORhrNag

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjF5oOWooI

Additional handout on Language Families

Dear all,

I have scanned a page on language families from David Crystal's Encyclopaedia of Language. I hope it will help you understand different language families.

Language families

Best

Katie

Articles for Friday's seminar

Dear all,

Here are the articles I promised; please choose one and read for Friday's seminar.

Assessing the advantages of bilingualism

Bilingualism

Brown & Gullberg

Factors affecting accent in L2

Factors affecting L2

Happy reading!

Katie

Gestures-Additional Reading

Dear all,

Please find additional reading on gestures attached. I think it's a good supplementary material for today's class.

Gestures

Best

Katie

Final Essay Titles

Dear all,

Please find the essay titles in the enclosed documents:

Language & Linguistics Essay Titles

I have also prepared some questions and reading list that should help you decide the topic you want to write your essay on.

You have plenty of time to choose your essay topic as the essay title submission deadline is 4pm Tuesday, 7th May 2013.

Happy reading!

Katie

Additional material on the sounds of language

Dear all,

I have found a nice handout with consonant and vowel charts that might be very helpful when studying the sounds of language.

The sounds of language

Happy reading!

Katie

An interesting article on equality of languages

Hello everyone,

Here's a link to the article on equality of languages in the EU that is linked to this week's topic.Equality of Languages

Enjoy reading!

Interesting video on the brain and music

Hello everyone,

I thought this would be interesting for you to watch:

http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1126413

Enjoy!

Katie

10 week plan

Dear students,

Please find a link to your 10 week Language & Linguistics course outline. Please be advised that this is a provisional course outline, therefore topics and sources might change as the course progresses. I've also pasted the same content below, just in case you can't access the file through google docs (Language & Linguistics 10 week course).

EFUP term module outline

Class name: EL Language & Linguistics

Teacher name: Katie Malik

Term start date: 25.03.2013

Week

Subject/Topic

Resources

Coursework/Deadlines

1

25/03/2013- 29/03/2013

What is linguistics?

Linguistics vs. grammar

The scope of linguistics

What is language?

Duality and creativity

Patterning and structure

Origin and role of language

Yule, p.1-7

2

1/04/20013-

5/04/2013

The prescriptive tradition

The equality of languages

The functions of language

Language and identity

Crystal Ch. 1, 2

Llamas & Watt, Part I

Seminar on Language

and Identity based on

reading from Llamas &

Watt

3

8/04/2013-

12/04/2013

The structure of language

Sound patterns

Words and pieces of words

Sentence patterns

Meaning

Yule, p. 29-61; p.100

4

15/04/2013-

19/04/2013

The medium of language

The anatomy and physiology

of speech

Speech perception

Written and spoken language

Sign language

Yule, p. 172

Crystal Ch. 4, 5, 6

Seminar on speech

perception  based on:

(1) “Phonetic Processing

by the Speech Perceiving Brain” by Lynne E. Bernstein

(2) “Perceptual

Organisation of Speech” by Robert E. Remez

5

22/04/2013-

26/04/2013

Child language acquisition

Investigating children’s language

Second Language Acquisition

Bilingualism

Yule, p.149

Crystal Ch. 7

Seminar on Bilingualism

based on the article on

the advantages of

bilingualism for the

children of immigrants by

Tanya Golash-Boza; extra

reading: 

(1) Piske et al., (2001)

Factors affecting degree

of foreign accent in an

L2:a review. Journal of 

Phonetics, 29, 191-215

(2) Zhang, C. (2006) On 

Variables Affecting L1

Transfer in L2 Acquisition.

Sino-US English Teaching,

Vol. 3, No. 5

6

29/04/2013-

3/05/2013

The languages of the world

Origins
 & Families of languages

Isolates

Language change

Pidgins and creoles

Yule, p. 182-204

Crystal Ch. 9

Seminar on Language

change 

7

6/05/2013-

10/05/2013

Language teaching

The communicative approach

Teaching skills

Classroom techniques

Guest Speaker

Harmer

Monday, 4pm 

Deadline for the essay title

submission

8

13/05/2013-

17/05/2013

Language in the world

The language barrier

Translating and interpreting

World languages

Multilingualism

Yule, p. 205-227

Crystal Ch. 10

Extra reading: Casasanto,

L. (n.d.) How Do Listeners

Represent Sociolinguistic

Knowledge? Max Planck

Institute for Psycholinguistics.

9

20/05/2013-

24/05/2013

A history of linguistics

Ideas in language study

20th century linguistics

Towards a universal grammar

Crystal Ch. 11

Monday, 4pm

Deadline for the 1,500

words essay submission

10

27/05/2013-

31/05/2013

Exams