Section One: GCB 1015; TTh 11:00-12:15

Fall 2000

INSTRUCTOR: Bruce Southard

OFFICE: GCB 2204

OFFICE PHONE: 328-6380 E-Mail: southardo@mail.ecu.edu

Web Page: http://personal.ecu.edu/southardo/3760.html

OFFICE HOURS: MWF 10-12; TTh 10-11 & by appointment

REQUIRED TEXTS: Klammer & Schulz, Analyzing English Grammar, 3rd ed.

(The following assignments may be changed at the instructor's discretion; any changes will be announced in class.)

1 8/17 Introductory class meeting

2 8/22-8/24 Introduction to the phonology of English; Read 425-443

3 8/29-8/31 The Meaning of "Grammar": Read 1-18

The Morphology of English: Read 37-56

4 9/5-9/7 Form Class Words: Read 57-87

5. 9/12-9/14 Structure-Class Words: Read 89-145

6 9/19-9/21 Catch-Up & Review; Test One: Phonology & Morphology

7 9/26-9/28 Phrases: Read 147-187

10 10/17-10/19 Catch-Up & Review; Test Two: Basic Syntax

11. 10/24-10/26 Fall Break; Finite Clauses: Read 279-314

12 10/31-11/2 Continue Finite Clauses: Read 279-314

13 11/7-11/9 Finite Clauses: Read 315-342

14 11/14-11/16 Nonfinite Phrases: Read 343-400

15 11/21 Continue Nonfinite Phrases

16 11/28-11/30 Continue Nonfinite Phrases

17 12/5 Review; Classes end

FINAL EXAMINATION: 11:00-1:00 Tuesday, December 12

PURPOSE: The purpose of this course is to introduce prospective speech and hearing clinicians to the methods and techniques of linguistic analysis, especially as applied to the phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic structures of English. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of linguistic theory in clinical speech therapy, though the course will not focus on the methodology of such therapy.

COURSE EVALUATION: Course evaluation will consist of quizzes (15% of final grade), two tests (40% of final grade: 20% each), class participation (20% of final grade), and a final examination (25% of final grade) .

a. Quizzes: at irregular intervals, the final 15-20 minutes of a class meeting will consist of a brief quiz covering the day's reading assignment and the class discussion of that material. These quizzes will not be announced in advance. Note that quizzes will not be held on the two days when tests are scheduled, on the introductory class meeting day, or on the final class meeting day; they may occur at any other time. A student's two lowest grades on these quizzes will be dropped in determining the student's quiz average.

b. Tests: two tests, designed to be completed in approximately 60 minutes each (though students will have the full 75 minute class period for each test), will cover phonology/morphology and basic syntax, respectively. Material on the tests will be similar to that covered on the daily quizzes; the tests will not be cumulative in that the test on syntax will not cover any material on phonology or morphology.

c. Class participation: students will frequently be called upon during discussion of reading assignments; in addition, numerous group activities will occur during class for which student participation will be required. Absences from class will result in a lowered grade for class participation; moreover, quality of participation will be a factor in the assignment of class participation grades.

d. Final examination: the final examination will focus on the advanced syntactic constructions covered after Test Two. The final examination, thus, does not replicate material presented on the daily quizzes and tests, but requires students to apply the knowledge they have gained of the material covered during the last portion of the semester.

GRADES: Grades in this course will be numerical. Any numerical grade below 0 will be counted as the grade of 40; otherwise, numerical grades will not be altered (That is, quiz and test grades will not be "curved," though the instructor reserves the right to add the same number of points to each student's raw score in order to ensure an appropriate and equitable range of grades on a given assignment). Final numerical averages will be "rounded up" to the next higher integer (e.g., 88.01=89.00; 89.01=90.00, etc.) and converted to final grades according to the following scale:

A = 90.00-100; B = 80.00-89.00; C = 70.00-79.00; D = 60.00-69.00; F = 40.00-59.00.

CLASS ATTENDANCE POLICY: Because class attendance is correlated with grades for class participation, students missing class will discover that their grades for class participation are adversely affected. In addition, no one will be permitted to "make-up" a missed quiz; there will be no exceptions to this policy. (Students missing a quiz will receive the grade of 40 for the quiz; as mentioned above, a student's two lowest quiz grades will be dropped in determining the quiz average). Students missing a test or final examination will be permitted to take a "make-up" examination only under the most exceptional of circumstances; if the instructor determines that such exceptional circumstances do not exist, the student will receive the grade of 40 for the test or examination.