Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

1

M 9/14

Stages of Variationist Research

W 9/16

0. Accessing the data

Walker Ch. 1, D’Arcy 2013

2

M 9/21

Transcribe & Code in ELAN

Bb Survey

W 9/23

1. Identify your variable and its variants

Walker Ch. 2, Bayley 2013

3

M 9/28

Distributional analysis (Goldvarb or Rbrul?)

W 9/30

2. Identify constraints

Walker Ch. 3

quick report on sample design & token search – all files / Tag2006:35-6,98 [due at start of class]

4

M 10/5

Coding linguistic factors

W 10/7

SOCIAL FACTOR FEST

select 1 from set in Bb

abstract [see abstract tips]

5

M 10/12

THANKSGIVING  NO CLASS

W 10/14

3. Code and analyze – demo

Groups vs. individuals

Brezina & Meyerhoff 2014

6

M 10/19

Design your social factor schema

coding schema for your dep & indep. vars. /Tag2006:15-16 [due at end of class]

W 10/21

NWAV-TORONTO  NO CLASS -- go to the conference Oct. 22-25

7

M 10/26

Coding  and MV/MEM in Rbrul

W 10/28

FORMAL FEST  I

Nagy 2013 or King 2013

8

M 11/2

Run your analyses

Walker Ch. 4

token file [due at end of class]

W 11/4

4. Results & Statistics

Gorman & Johnson 2013

speaker distribution [due at start of class]

9

M 11/9

FALL BREAK  NO CLASS

W 11/11

Phon. variation

Walker Ch. 5, Hay et al 2010 or Walker 2012

10

M 11/16

Run your analyses   

distrib analysis/Tag2006:189, 215

and MV analysis – take 1 /Tag2006:157) [due at end of class]

W 11/18

Grammatical variation

Walker Ch. 6, Owens et. al. 2013

abstract/Tag266:35-6,98 [due before class]

11

M 11/23

Run your analyses   

W 11/25

5. Interpret

Walker Ch. 7

Paper draft [due before class]

12

M 11/30

Interpret

Grad students – submit outline of presentation (earlier is ok! select from Formal Fest Readings in Bb)

W 12/1

FORMAL FEST II

Walker Ch. 9

13

M 12/7

Wrap-up / Conclusions

re-analyze; write-up final paper /Tag2006:262 [due before class]

W 12/9

MAKE-UP MONDAY – Presentations on analysis – Best findings [5-10 min each]