LING 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ray Jackendoff, Universal Grammar, Steven Pinker
19 May 2020
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Reminder: the midterm will be on monday, mar. You are responsible for material from the reading, class lectures, homework, and practice exercises (i. e. everything we have done so far) Units: fundamental questions, mental grammar, prescriptive vs. descriptive approaches innateness, phonetics, phonology, syllable structure, acquisition of phonological categories. Readings: jackendoff chapters 1-5; lf 1. 0-1. 4, reading on prescription: pinker, readings on the acquisition of phonological categories: werker, language files chapter 2 (files 2. 0-2. 3) (phonetics, language files chapter 3 (files 3. 0--3. 3;-3. 5) (phonology) The test will be a combination of objective (e. g. multiple choice, applying definitions to examples, matching) and short answer/short essay. You will be asked to do the same types of problems that you have seen on homework, practice exercises, the quiz, etc. You will also be asked to show understanding of concepts and provide arguments for concepts such as mental grammar, and the innateness of language for humans.
