Spring 2005 ... Tuesday 10:15-13:00 ...文學院 413

Me:

Goals:

Grading:

What the class is like:

This class is a discussion class. All we will do is read papers (real ones, not from a textbook) and discuss them together. So class participation means you discuss: you read, think, talk, and respond to others' ideas.

Every week somebody will lead the discussion on the week's paper, using a handout with questions to inspire us to discuss together. The questions should be organized in a logical way to make sure we address the most important issues in the paper, situating them in the larger phonological literature, but your questions should also allow us to clarify smaller points in the paper that may be confusing. You are encouraged to ask questions that even you don't know how to answer, but you are the one responsible to bring the focus back to the big issues if we get lost. You do NOT have to talk more than everybody else.

By the middle of the semester, you should choose a topic of your own to write about. The only restriction is that it has to connect with the theoretical issues discussed in this class and be empirically testable. After you choose your topic, the discussions will then turn to focus on papers that YOU choose to help you with YOUR project.

On the last day of class (06.14), you'll give a conference-style presentation about your research. The paper is due a bit more than a week later (Friday, 06.24) in my mailbox by 5 pm. The paper should be about 20 pages, in English, with formatting like the real published papers we read. I'll grade it in the usual way (style, logic, theory).

Schedule (there are likely to be changes along the way)

* marks when due dates for things relating to your paper
(links to related resources will be added for each reading)