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LING 3020 - Perspectives on Language Variation & Change

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018

This is the capstone course for the Linguistics Major. All languages vary internally in accordance with a range of parameters including the gender, age, social class, occupation, origins etc. of their speakers. Most languages have distinct regional and social varieties. They also vary according to the contexts in which they are used and the purposes for which they are employed. All living languages constantly change over time in response to innovations introduced by younger generations, technological change or contact with other languages or with other varieties of the same language. Drawing on descriptive and analytic skills developed during their undergraduate study of linguistics, students will undertake independent study of language variation and change, assembling their own body of data either through archival, library, internet research or field research. Students wishing to undertake research in the field will need to obtain ethics clearance in Semester 1 prior to enrolling in this course in Semester 2.

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    Course Details
    Course Code LING 3020
    Course Perspectives on Language Variation & Change
    Coordinating Unit Linguistics
    Term Semester 2
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 6
    Contact Up to 3 hours per week face-to-face + up to 6 on-line activity (MOOCS)
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange N
    Prerequisites At least 15 units of Linguistic Major courses
    Assumed Knowledge LING 1101, LING 1102
    Restrictions Only available to students undertaking the Major in Linguistics
    Assessment Linguistic practical (eg comparative method or text analysis) 20%, Oral presentation 20%, Research report 60%
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    Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Rob Amery

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    1. Research Ethics Assignment
    Length: 1,000 words
    Due Date: 10 August

    Students will complete a research ethics application based upon a proposed investigation involving the collection of primary data through one or more of the following: conducting interviews, administering questionnaires, recording wordlists, elicited sentences, texts or conversations or conducting experiments.


    2. Linguistic Practical
    Length: 1,500 words
    Due Date: 31 August

    Apply the comparative method to a body of language data in order to reconstruct an earlier form of the language which might have given rise to the daughter languages under study.
    Identify the sound changes which have taken place in each of the languages.

    3. Oral Presentation and Write-up
    Length: 1,500 words
    Due Date: various

    Students will need to assemble or access a body of language data that reveals variation or change. This might be varieties of language which deviate from the standard in significant ways. Or it might be data from two or more closely related languages, or indeed a large number of languages spread across a particular region. Students will identify one or more research questions formulated to interrogate the data. Research questions may focus on one or more aspects of the language(s) including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, child language, special registers, regional or social dialects etc. Students will present the data corpus and discuss their research question(s), and their chosen approach to research and to analyse the data.


    4. Research Report
    LEngth: 5,000 words
    Due Date: 9 November

    On the basis of data obtained, students will analyse and describe in detail the variation present or the evidence for language change. They will prepare a comprehensive research report which addresses their chosen research question(s). The report will be informed not only by their chosen body of data, but also by the literature relating to the aspect(s) of language under investigation.

     





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    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

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