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Readings

The readings are organized by topics. Some of the readings are in the required textbook: Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. An Introduction to Language. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Heinle, 2003. ISBN: 1413017738.

Course readings.
TOPICS	READINGS
Morphology	Chapter 3, on Morphology, from An Introduction to Language
Syntax	Chapter 4, from An Introduction to Language Islands and Movement (PDF) Complements vs. Adjuncts (PDF)
Semantics	An Introduction to Language. pp. 173-201. Quantifiers and Scope (PDF) Non-English Binding Phenomena (PDF) Ambiguous and Vague Meanings (PDF) Negative and Positive Polarity Items (PDF)
Phonetics	Some pitch contours for the types of sentences listed in the last part of the phonetics problem set (PDF) Video of Tongue Movement during Vowel Pronunciation Hints on How to Read Spectrograms
Phonology	An Introduction to Language. pp. 273-291, 324-326.

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