LING 057: LANGUAGE AND POPULAR CULTURE
Introduction to Linguistics as a Science
H. Schiffman
U. of Pennsylvania
Introduction: What is Language? What is Linguistics?
Study of Human Language
Origins of Linguistics.
(Re)discovery of Sanskrit
Kinds of grammar.
Prescriptive Grammar
Descriptive grammar.
Primacy of spoken language.
Written Language?
System and Structure
Levels of organization.
Transcription vs. trans literation.
Transcription:
Trans literation
Phonetics.
The human vocal apparatus
Vowels.
Consonants
System and Structure
Infinity
Sound and Meaning
Sound and Writing.
Finding Phonemes
Patterning of distribution of phonetic variants
Minimal pairs
Some principles underlying phonemic descriptions.
Phonetic conditioning.
Overall patterning and symmetry
Variation:
Socially-conditioned Variation
``Free Variation"
Redundancy.
Elegance
Cooccurrence phenomena
Initial position:
Limited Distribution:
Harold Schiffman
September 9 1997