Language Science

This is an introductory linguistics course geared toward psych majors, taught as a smaller course. The course consists of two lectures per week with take-home problem sets. The lecture slides and assignments included here. This is similar to the language and mind course above, but with more depth in the linguistic theory sections, plus problem sets.

Because this is taught in at extremely multi-lingual university, the second part of each problem set asks students to use the tools of the class to analyze their own native language.

The course itself is usually organized using Brightspace (NYUAD's course software). I have created this webpage to facilitate sharing of materials with other instructors. I have not included answer keys, just in case students stumble upon this page. But if you need the answer key, please contact me.

Lecture	Topic	Assignments
1	Introduction
2	The object of study
3	Articulatory Features
4	Acoustic Phonetics
5	Phonemes and Allophones
6	Phonological Rules
7	Problems in class	Problem Set 1
8	Morphemes and Rules
9	Morphological Theory
10	Lexical Access
11	Writing Systems
12	Language Disorders
13	Problems in class	Problem Set 2
14	Syntax I
15	Syntax II
16	Syntax III
17	Problems in class	Problem Set 3
18	The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
19	Case Studies in Language Acquisition
20	Critical Period
21	Sign Languages
22	Language Diversity
23	Language Prejudice	Problem Set 4
24	Language and Thought
25	Animal Communication
extra	Syllables and Phonotactic Constraints