Lauren Friedman, TA

email me at lfri{at}ling{dot}upenn{dot}edu
I encourage my students to email me with any questions: homework, lecture slides, recitation, anything. My general policy is that I will get back to you within 24 hours, but I generally only answer emails once a day, so it may be a full day before you hear back from me.

Quick links:

Office Hours
Announcements
Posted Items
Interesting or useful Linguistics sites
Lauren's ongoing project

Office Hours:

Office hours sign-up
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Syllabus

Announcements:

Email on April 10th
Email on March 29th
Email on March 19th
If you must email me your homework, it must be .doc, .docx, or .pdf. No pages, entourage, onenote, etc. files.
Students are allowed (and encouraged) to work on homework in groups. However, students must turn in their own work. This means students cannot submit a homework assignment in part or in whole that is the same as another student's assignment word-for-word. The same applies to tests, quizzes, etc.

Midterm:

• The answer key for the midterm is now posted on blackboard.
  Homework:
• See the latest assignment on blackboard
• Also, see blackboard for slides from lecture (Class Documents)

Posted items:

Parsing/Cognition (April 14)
Semantics & Pragmatics (April 7)
Exercise on Academic Integrity (April 7)
Historical and Sociolinguistics (March 31)
Practice Problem on Typology from recitaiton (March 24)
Morphologial Typology slides from recitation, also found on the lecture slides from 3-21 on Blackoard
Grammar Acquisition slides (March 17th)
Practice Midterm
Syntax slides from recitation (February 17)
Exercise from class Feb 10 and Answers from the exercise on Morphology (with an additional phonology practice problem)
Short powerpoint from recitation on phonetics
Phonemic rule example from recitation on phonology (Jan 27)
Syllable structure exercise from phonology recitation and a slideshow with the solution (Jan 20)

Interesting/Useful Linguistics Sites:

• "Crash Blossoms" ambiguity in headlines (from the headline "Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms")
  
• Longest word in Turkish - look at the morphology in the section "Word Formation"
  
• Atlas of North American English (you will need to sign in with your Penn ID)
  
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
  
• Language Log, which includes contributions from Penn's own Mark Liberman
  
  

Phonetics:

• Peter Ladefoged's Interactive IPA Chart
  
• Full IPA Chart and IPA Chart with the English sounds only
  
• IPA keyboard (for those pesky symbols you can't find on your own computer)
  
• X-ray of a mouth speaking
  

Morphology/Syntax:

• Tree-making site (one of many, Google "syntax tree generator")

My current project:

A phone study of the St. Louis Corridor
(If you know anyone from the area along I-55 in Illinois, give them my email address! I'm always looking for new participants...)