Anne-Michelle Tessier
Linguistics Department, University of Alberta
amtessier at ualberta dot ca 		"Don't fall asleep in the front row.
I can't handle that kind of rejection."
[Professor Tager, History 387: Modern Boston.
from the UMass Amherst Daily Jolt Quote Archive]
LINGUISTICS 420 Phonological Acquisition

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Welcome to LING420

This class meets MWF 2-2:50pm in CAB 235.

My office hours this semester are Tuesdays 10-11am and Wednesdays 12:45-12:45pm in Assiniboia Hall 4-22.
If you can't make those times, email me to make an appointment. At any time outside office hours I am definitely not guaranteed to be in my office, and my office phone has no voicemail, so you should always try email first.

Notes

Dec 5
 Week Fourteen notes that provide a different approach to learning a phonology full of constraints, to wrap things up, are here

Nov 28
 Week Thirteen notes that start our two weeks on learnability and theories of how acquisition actually happens are posted here

Nov 19
 Week Eleven notes about adult L2 perception are posted here -- we began them today and will finish them on Monday.

Also on Monday we will talk a little about child L2 phonology, and you will hear more about methods and other child L2 studies on Wednesday from our guest speaker, Tanya Zdorenko. Her slides/handouts will be posted next week.
Nov 14
 Week Eleven notes about adult L2 phonology are posted here -- they may continue into Friday, or I may post you more slides on Thursday.

Nov 7
 Week Ten notes about morpho-phonological learning are posted here -- recall that we only meet twice this week, since Friday is Fall Break.

Oct 15
 Tomorrow, the last day of Week 8, we will finish the notes on CH talking about Hebrew, we will discuss misperceptions in learning (one presentation) and we will discuss more experimental options, since you have your Experiment Proposal due soon.

Week Nine notes also come in two flavours:
first, on a variety of lexical interactions with early phonology, and second on templates and lexical exceptions, which will occupy us on Monday and Wednesday of next week. (Next Friday is all presentations...)
Oct 15
 Week Seven notes come in two flavours:
first, on disordered acquisition, part one, and second on a tricky segmental process, namely consonant harmony, on which we will spend a few days.
Oct 5
 For once we finish the rest of last week's notes on Monday:

Week Five notes in which we begin to look at children's early word shapes are here, and in which we continue looking at other languages and explanations are here.
Sept 27
 Week Four notes in which we transition from perception to production, here, and in which we begin child production looking at syllables and constraints on them, here.

See you in class...

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