Naomi Nagy

Linguistics at U of T

LIN 1256: Advanced Language Variation & Change
Language Contact, Corpora & Analysis

Course Schedule

Course Description * Reading * Assessment

Week Date Topic Reading

Assignment due
(before class, unless otherwise noted)

§ 1
 1

1/9

Intro: Big questions, our research interests & experience

Siemund&Kintana '08

2

1/16

Contact I: What gets borrowed?

Matras '09 ยง6.2 & 8.4

Meet with Naomi

syllabus response
3

1/23

Analysis I: How do we analyze the data?

Hinskens et al. '14
Sociophonetics chapter?

Discussion section
4

1/30

Data collection & analysis: How do we prepare data?

DYD Ch. 2
Schleef&Meyerhoff '10
Nagy&Meyerhoff '15

coding tokens

5

2/6

Corpora I: Why do we use corpora?

Gries '09
Bondi et al. '11:7-12

 prelim. plan for research project
§ 2
 6

2/13

Contact II: Exs. of contact effects

Filppula et al. '09:1-16 Savannah
Polinsky '95 Fiona
Nagy '14

Research project proposal

NO CLASS on Feb. 20 (Reading Week)
7

2/27

Analysis II: Comparative variationist analysis

Torres-Cacoullos&Travis '10 Lex
Poplack et al. '12 Katharina
Lyskawa et al '16 Guest presentation by authors

Rbrul analysis;
Midterm course evals
(not graded)
8

3/6

Corpora II: students present corpora: How do we use corpora?

McEnery&Hardie '12

prepare corpora presentations
9

3/13

 Project design discussion

sample design
§ 3
 10

3/20

Analysis III: Accounting for variation theoretically

Guy '14 Gerry
Docherty&Foulkes '14 Luke

Research project abstract and bibliography

11 3/27

Quantifying contact effects

Buchstaller&D'Arcy '09
DYD Ch. 16

Revisit Rbrul analysis HW with your data

12

4/3

Progress Reports in class: What have you found out?

DYD Ch. 15

Paper outline

4/6

Final paper about your research project due by 5pm on Thursday, April 6, 2017.
Please submit a hard copy and via Bb.

Grey shading highlights components where students have work due.
Purple articles will be presented by a student. (Please sign up for one.) [Article presentation guidelines]

 

Please consider printing double-sided, using 1.5 spacing and omitting title pages on your own work; and reading onscreen when possible.

Updated March 19, 2017

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