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Week
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Date
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Topic
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Reading
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Assignment
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1
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Th 9/6
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Stages of Variationist
Research
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Walker Ch. 1
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Note: See descriptions
of assignments in Quercus
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T 9/11
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1.
Identify your variable and its variants
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Walker Ch. 2,
Bayley 2013
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Th 9/13
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NO CLASS
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D’Arcy 2013
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Bb
Survey "A little about you” & HW 1: Syllabus report
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2
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T 9/18
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Transcribe & Code in ELAN
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Nagy & Meyerhoff 2015
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Th
9/20
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2.
Accessing the data
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3
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T 9/25
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Distributional analysis
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Tamminga 2011
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Th
9/27
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3. Identify constraints
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Walker Ch. 3
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HW 2: quick report on sample
design & token search
/ Tag2006:35-6,98 [due
at start of class]
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4
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T 10/2
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Coding linguistic factors
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[code your data]
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Th
10/4
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Abstract round robin
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HW 3: Project abstract [see abstract
tips]
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5
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T
10/9
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SOCIAL FACTOR FEST
Present 1 factor
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Choose 1 article from Social Fest List
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[code your data]
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Th
10/11
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Design your social factor
schema
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HW 4: coding schema for
your dep & indep. vars. /Tag2006:15-16
[due at end of class]
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6
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T 10/16
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4. Code and analyze
Groups vs. individuals
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Brezina & Meyerhoff 2014
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[code your data]
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Th 10/18
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NO CLASS (NWAV
conference)
[code your data]
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7
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T 10/23
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Coding and MV/MEM in Rbrul
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[code your data]
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Th 10/25
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FORMAL FEST I
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Nagy 2013 or
King 2013
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[code your data]
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8
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T 10/30
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Phon. variation
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Walker Ch. 5, Hay et al 2010 or Walker
2012
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HW 5: speaker distribution
table(s) [due at start of class]
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Th 11/1
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Run your analyses
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Walker Ch. 4
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HW 6: token file [due
at end of class]
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9
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T 11/6 & Th 11/8
NO CLASS: READING WEEK
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Please
(re-)read Walker Ch. 5 & 6 and think about directions for your paper.
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10
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T 11/13
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5. Results &
Statistics
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Gorman & Johnson 2013
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[code your data]
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Th
11/15
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Run your analyses
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HW 7: distrib analysis/Tag2006:189-90,
215-6
and HW 8: MV
analysis – take 1 /Tag2006:157) [due at end of class]
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11
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T 11/20
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Grammatical variation
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Walker Ch. 6,
Owens et. al. 2013
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Grad students – submit
outline of presentation (earlier is ok! select from Formal Fest List)
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Th
11/22
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6. Interpret your data
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Walker Ch. 9
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HW 9: (revised) abstract/Tag2006:35-6,98
[due before class]
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12
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T 11/27
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FORMAL FEST II
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HW 10: Paper draft [due before
class]
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Th
11/29
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Run your analyses
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Walker Ch. 7
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13
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T 12/4
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Reports & Conclusions
Best findings [5-10
min each]
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Re-analyze; write-up
final paper
/Tag2006:262 [due
before class]
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