Week

Lecture Date

Topic

Read for Class

Tutorial Date

Tutorial Topics

Read for Tut

HW due

1

Jan. 4

INTRO

Jan. 7

 no tutorial

2

Jan. 11

VARIABLES (Dep. & Indep.)

Labov 01:3-6;
Chambers Ch. 1

Jan. 14

linguistic variables, principle of accountability, review IPA

Green 07

HWs are due at the beginning of tutorial on the day indicated.

3

Jan. 18

CLASS

Chambers Ch. 2, pp. 38-74;
Labov 01:29-34

Jan. 21

Intro Term Project

Tagliamonte 07: 190-202

 Part 1 & 2 (Part 1 to turn in)

4

Jan. 25

NETWORK & Mobility

Chambers Ch. 2, pp. 75-114

Jan. 28

Intro Goldvarb

Tagliamonte 07:202-214

Part 3

5

Feb. 1

SEX

Chambers Ch. 3

Feb. 4

Fieldwork issues

Tagliamonte & Hudson 99;
Schleef&Meyerhoff 09

Part 4

6

Feb. 8

CHANGE I

Chambers Ch. 4, pp. 159-198;
Sankoff&Blondeau 07

Feb. 11

Algonquian data

Tagliamonte & D’Arcy 04

Reading Week

7

Feb. 22

CHANGE II

Chambers Ch. 4, pp. 198-217;
Feagin 90

Feb. 25

Review for Test; More on Goldvarb

Part 5 & 6 (Part 5 to turn in)

8

Mar. 1

TEST

Mar. 4

no tutorial

Late Drop Date Mar. 8

9

Mar. 8

Fought 02

Mar. 11

Distributional analysis; Bailey

Bailey 00

 Part 7

10

Mar. 15

REGIONAL

Labov 07;
Nagy 01

Multivariate analysis

Part 8 (to turn in)

11

Mar. 22

Phon. Theory

Guy 07

Mar. 25

activity: design a research project connecting to phon. or syn. theory

Part 9 (to turn in)

12

Mar. 29

ATTITUDES

Niedzielski 02;
McKinnie&O’Cain 02

Apr. 1

Review for final

Part 10 (to turn in)

Office hours / Review session TBA (optional!)

Final Exam sometime in April (7-23); Time & Place To Be Announced in Feb.