LIGN215 – Variation in phonetics and phonology
Spring Quarter 2005
Instructor: Amalia
Arvaniti
Requirements and
grading
This seminar is based on readings of primary literature and review
papers. It is essential that you read the assigned papers in time so that we
can have fruitful discussions in class.
A large part of your grade will depend on your presentations in
class and on your participation in class discussions. These tasks largely
replace written assignments in this seminar.
Class papers: the final class papers will be based on projects
involving the collection of data on some aspect of variation discussed in class.
These projects could be based on an original idea or they could be a
replication of an older study; it is also possible for the class paper to be a
review paper on a particular theoretical topic dealing with treatments of
variation in phonetics, phonology or both.
Grades
Class presentations: 35% (the
number of presentations will depend on the number of students)
Participation in class discussions 15%
Class paper:
50%
TOTAL 100%
A general note on
collaboration, acknowledgements and plagiarism: you are encouraged
to work in groups, and to discuss your class presentations with other students.
However, all presentations and assignments should be your own work. Any help or
contribution from others should be acknowledged in a special acknowledgments
section of your paper (such contribution could be an idea that changed the
course of your research paper, help with data collection or analysis, etc.).
Please also note that any time you use the ideas or words of someone else you
should explicitly acknowledge the source in a citation and in the references.
This includes material you found on the web (in which case, you can provide the
website in the references).