LING 201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 201
• Professor: Alex Drummond

Document Summary

Resources: course website, slum (society of linguistics undergrads at mcgill, your ta ->sign up for conference sections on minerva -> conferences begin in week 3, allthingslinguistic. com. Traditional split in linguistics: (cid:498)p(cid:499) side (cid:498)s(cid:499) side: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Polling at mcgill: not used for grades, using any device (replaces the clicker system, register account: mcgill. ca/polling, session id for polling: ling201f2016. Types of grammatical patterns: phonetics, study of speech sounds, phonology, study of sound systems, morphology, study of word structure, syntax, study of sentence structure, semantics, study of linguistic meaning, pragmatics, study of language use. For the next class: get course pack, read contemporary linguistic analysis, chapter 2, sections 2. 1 and 2. 2. Speech production: the vocal tract, the larynx. What are speech sounds: physiological process, respiration, phonation, articulation, acoustic process, vibration of air molecules at different frequencies and amplitudes, perceptual process, auditory processing, categorization.