Week

Date
(Tues.)

Topic

Reading
(Read for THIS DAY's class)

Homework

(Due in Bb Friday noon following lecture)

Where did Canadian English come from?

And how do we know?

1

1/12

Organizational

concepts & methods

Walker Ch. 1 & 2

Day 1 Survey in Blackboard

(due Friday, 1/22)

2

1/19

Origins

film: Dialects of Canadian English

Geike 1857,

Walker Ch. 3:32-40

1/24  - Last day to add S courses

3

1/26

Development

Walker Ch. 3:40-60

HW 1 due (Variables)

What unifies Canadian English?

4

2/2

Lexicon

Chambers 2006 (read online), Walker Ch. 4

HW 2 due (Dialect Topography)

5

2/9

Phonology and Phonetics

Boberg 2005

2/16

no class (READING WEEK)

6

2/23

Grammar and discourse

Walker Ch. 6

HW 3 due (Data)

What are some distinctions within Canadian English?

7

3/1

Now and in the future

Walker Ch. 7

Research project

proposal (Due 3/1 in Bb)

8

3/8

Ethnicity
and mother tongues?
Guest speaker Ruth Maddeaux

Choose 1: Boberg 2004, Chumak-Horbatsch 1987, Goldstein 1997, McKinnie 2000

 3/13 Last day to drop S courses

9

3/15

Day to work on your group research project in class

HW 4 due (Abstract & Bibliography)

10

3/22

Regions
Guest speaker Erin Hall

Choose 1: Avis 1975, Chambers & Heisler 1999, McArthur 1989  

What can you add to our knowledge?

11-12

3/29 & 4/5

       Presentations of your group research projects

4/8

                    Your final papers are due in my office by 5 pm on Friday.

4/15

Final Exam: FRI 15 APR, 2:00-4:00 PM, PB B250.
(Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building, 144 College Street)
Please note that the exam starts on the hour, NOT at 10 min. past.