2024-3Q Wednesday 9.10(17:15-18:55) W932 Linguistics D (LAH.A411)
Institute of Science Tokyo[Syllabus]
Linguistics D (LAH.A411)/ W932: Facts and Figures of Language
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Day 1 2024.10.04 Wittgenstein and Language Game / Is
a subject necessary for language?
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Day 2 2024.10.16 Turing and Turing Machine / Is a
word order really needed for language?
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Day 3 2024.10.30 Zipf and Zipf's Law / The criteria
of language description
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Day 4 2024.11.06 Daniel Jones' 18 Cardinal Vowels /
Is language static or dynamic?
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Day 5 2024.11.20 de Sussure and Semiotics / Is a
thought first or a language first?
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Day 6 2024.11.27 Conference Day 1
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Day 7 2024.12.04 Conference Day 2 / Examination
Day 1: 2024.10.09 Wittgenstein and Language game / Is a subject necessary
for language?
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This class is one of the liberal arts courses in the 400 level of the
master's program.
- Discussion is mandatory in this class.
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In addition to attendance, written exams and research presentations are
required.
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If you wish to attend, please read the [Syllabus]
carefully.
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Please prepare one of the following textbooks.
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Linguistics For Dummies® Published by John Wiley & Sons Canada,
Ltd. 6045 Freemont Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario, L5R 4J3
[Amazon]
[Cheat Sheet]
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An Introduction to Language: Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman and
Nina Hyams
[Amazon]
[PDF]
[PDF]
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Today's menu [Language game]
Day 2: 2024.10.16 Turing and Turing Machine
Day 3: 2023.10.30 Zipf and Zipf's Law / Set language description criteria
to "understandable."
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Today's menu [Zipf's law]
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Additional Resources [pdf] Frequency of words
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Discuss the following items if you can make sense with Zipf's law.
- The frequency of access to the web page
- The population in a city (rank-size distribution of the city)
- The top three percent of the people of income
- The frequency of use of the notes in music
- Expression level of the gene in cells
- Scale of earthquake
- The size of the fragments when the glass is broken
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How do you think the distribution of the kanji characters in a document?
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Better Poster Template [OSF Site]
[pdf]
Poster Template [pptx]
[pdf]
Day 4: 2023.11.06 Daniel Jones' 18 Cardinal Vowels / Is language static or
dynamic?
Day 5: 2023.11.20 de Sussure and Semiotics / Is a thought first or a language first?
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Tasksheets: [Semiotics]
[pdf]
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Additional Resources [pdf] Sapir Worf
Hypothesis
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A recommentation of semiotics:
Semiotics for beginners
Amazon
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2024.11.20 Homework [here]
(deadline: today)
- And do not forget to submit your homework!
- Next week, we will open a conference.
Day 6: 2023.11.27 Conference Day 1 and Fillmore and Case grammar;
Please submit your conference slides by 2024.11.26 23:59:59 at T2Scala?T2Scholar?
Day 7: 2023.12.04 Conference Day 2 and examination.
https://cuckoo.js.ila.titech.ac.jp/~yamagen/ling/lingD.html
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