ENGL 227--Elements of Linguistics

This is the webpage for students in Elizabeth Strong's section of ENGL 227. Course documents will be posted as they become available.

Course Documents:

Syllabus
How to Do Journal Assignments
Handout on Non-English Phonetics
Instructions for Sociolinguistics Project

Links for Help with Homework #1:

IPA charts you can click on to hear each sound
Examples of transcriptions and pronunciation for American English vowels
Examples of transcriptions and pronunciation for some English words

Links for Help with Homework #2:

Basic Steps for Doing a Phonology Problem

Study Guides:

Exam #1 Study Guide
Exam #2 Study Guide
Exam #3 Study Guide
Final Exam Study Guide

Extra Credit:

Watch one of the following videos and write a one-page (typed, double-spaced) summary of what the video talked about, what you learned, and what you found interesting. This can be turned in any time before the last day of class. All of the videos below are available in the undergraduate library. If they are on reserve, you will have to watch them in the library, but if they are not, you can check them out and take them home. Please return them within a reasonable period of time, especially near the end of the semester, so that others can use them too. Some videos are a multi-part series, so you only need to watch one part of the series for the extra credit assignment.

Video Choices:

American Tongues (On reserve, VC 7539)

Do You Speak American? (On reserve, DVD PE 2808 .M262 2005. There are three parts on three discs: Part I--The North, Part II--The South, and Part III--The West. The library's copies are somewhat old and scratched; Part II is the one least likely to skip).

The Linguists: A Very Foreign Language Film (Regular circulation, DVD P40.5.L33 L5648 2009. This film will eventually be available on Netflix, so you can save it in your queue to see if it becomes available before the end of the semester.)

The Story of English (Regular circulation. There are nine parts on five cassettes: "An English-Speaking World" and "Mother Tongue" (VC 2215), "Muse of Fire" and "The Guid Scots Tongue" (VC 2216), "Black on White" and "Pioneers! O, Pioneers!" (VC 2217), "Muvver Tongue" and "The Loaded Weapon" (VC 2218), and "Next Year's Words: A Look into the Future" (VC 2219).)

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