Dialects

ENS 207 G Enskar mállýskur - English Dialects
Course Page 2011 (Spring)

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Note that the videos (screen capture) for this course are posted in Ugla undir "Upptökur", which means "recordings". (I can't unfortunately change the title to English, or the system will create a new "Upptökur" folder).

Week	2010	Topic	Sessions		Reading:Melchers and Shaw
1	10 Jan	Language and dialect Prestige and Standardization	First-week assignment. Please read this assignment before class. In class, we shall discuss the assignment and fix the due date, which will not be before the 3rd week. Slide for first-week assignment Linguistic Variables (introduction)		Chapters 1and 3.
	12 Jan		In this session I shall discuss the "Readings" posted in Ugla I shall also discuss the first chapters of Melchers and Shaw. Introduction to Reading 2 : Reading 2 (Wells Sets and Systems)
2	17 Jan	Accent vs dialects Regional vs. RP Isoglosses and continua	Readings 1 and 3 in Ugla: general questions concerning dialectology. Isoglosses Language and Dialect
	19 Jan		Trees and Waves Workshop 1: South of England (now posted in Ugla. Please note that I shall post the ANALYSIS of these texts very shortly.)
3	24Jan	Sets and variables Rules and processes	We will review assignment 1, finish the South of England, and start looking at Reading 4 (in Ugla) My answers to the first assignment This assignment is now closed. Processes I		4.1 England 4.2 Wales 4.3 Scotland 4.4 Ireland
	26 Jan		Workshop 2 North of England (now posted in Ugla)
4	31 Jan	Mapping the British Isles	Second assignment. (due 7 February) More on processes - prominent British changes after the Crossing of the Atlantic (Wells's "Great Divide") Newcastle text Processes II Clearing up England: practice in listening.
	2 Feb		Processes III
5	7 Feb	Mapping the British Isles	Processes IV
	9 Feb		Scotland Workshop 3 Scotland and Wales (now posted in Ugla)
6	14 Feb	Mapping the British Isles	TRAP-BATH-PALM-START TRAP-LOT-STRUT Wales Third assignment. How to record audio clips
	16 Feb		Workshop 4 Ireland (now posted in Ugla) Slide on Ireland Slide on dialectal areas in Britain
7	21 Feb 23 Feb	Reading week	Fourth assignment (mid-term) report on fourth assignment
8	28 Feb	Chronology: colonialism. North American	Notes on assignments Timescale Typology The global spread of English		2 The Spread of English 4.5 The USA
	2 Mar		Workshop 5 North America: USA (now posted in Ugla) European Settlement of North America North American accents 5th assignment Answers to 5th assignment
9	7 Mar	North America Canada	Surprise: r-intrusion in rhotic American English (sent in by Baldur Snćr Jónsson) - false alarm! Worshop 6: Canada. See also Workshop 6 in Ugla BATH raising Canadian Raising - < Review this to see Melanie's note		4.6 Canada
	9 Mar		Southern Hemisphere Australia PLEASE NOTE: There are two video files for this session
10	14 Mar	Southern Hemisphere	Workshop 7 Southern Hemispherre (now posted in Ugla) NZ S.Africa Here's the NZ clip we went over in class: audio text		4.7 Australia 4.8 New Zealand 4.9 South Africa
	16 Mar		Final Paper
11	21 Mar	India and Africa	Class cancelled	Africa India Workshop 8 India and Africa is now posted in Ugla. Video for this week is posted in Ugla/Upptökur/India 2010	5 The Outer Circle
	23 Mar		Class cancelled
12	28 Mar	Pidgins and creoles	Pidgins and creoles Workshop 9 Pidgins and creoles is now posted in Ugla.
	30 Mar	Black English	(This is the S.Afr. clip I used in class) Black English
13	4 Apr	Review	Workshop 10 Review is now posted in Ugla. Answers to 5th assignment (Revised version!!!) Answers to 5th assignment (Second revised version!!!)
	6 Apr		Final Paper Report on final paper (with answers to samples) audio for final class