Introduction to Linguistics for Computational Linguists

12/4/01


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Table of Contents

Introduction to Linguistics for Computational Linguists

This Course

Materials

Rough Schedule

What is Linguistics?

What is Linguistics?

Other Disciplines

What is language?

Speech before Writing

Writing Primary?

Linguistic “Rules”

Rules

Evidence for Rules

Evidence for Rules

Chomskyan Turn

Essentials

Competence/Performance

Problems w. Competence Focus

Other “rules”

Focus on Descriptive Rules

Source of Prescriptive Rules

Language Attitudes

Early Linguistics

Early Grammarians

Digression: Culture/Cognition

Social Gatekeeping

Description to Prescription

Language Change

Singular their

Singular their

Singular their

Main Ideas

Author: john nerbonne

Email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl

Home Page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/