Instructor: John Nerbonne (course under development)
Course Number: LSA.107
Mon. & Wed. 10:10-11:50, June 27-July 13
2005 Linguistics Institute (Harvard/MIT)
This three-week course precedes Bill Kretzschmar's three-week course on the feature-based analysis of language variation. We have coordinated with Kretzschmar on the focus, deliberately focusing here on the analysis of large aggregates, while he intends to focus on analyses based on single features.
The course assumes no familiarity with dialectology or computational techniques. Some basic linguistics is helpful, as is an unintimidated attitude toward software. We have three goals:
Students will have the opportunity to practice aggregate analysis of language variation on data from American dialects.