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Objectives and competences

The objectives of this course are: • to provide insight into the preparation of linguistic material for linguistic comparison; • to accustom students to research methods for evaluating linguistic data; • to familiarise students with the use of linguistic software; • to accustom students to professional terminology and intelligible expression; • motivate students to transfer the acquired knowledge to other fields of study.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• Comparison of linguistic categories and elements assisted with computer programs. • Recording of speech and transcribing texts with linguistic software. • Linguistic corpora and concordance use. • Linguistic experiments.

Learning and teaching methods

• Seminar, • Tutorial, • Individual work, working in pairs and groups, • Method of projection, method of working with pictures, maps and photos, method of observation, method of sample and result assessment.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

On completion of this course the student will be able to: • translate speech recordings into text annotations • analyze speech recordings with a program for acoustic phonetics • search for linguistic patterns in linguistic corpora • create tables and diagrams of linguistic data with a spreadsheet program, • prepare language data for linguistic comparison with a spreadsheet program, • compare language samples according to an assumption • identify significant differences between linguistic samples with basic statistic tests • prepare a linguistic experiment with linguistic software.

Readings

• Braun, P. 1987: Tendenzen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart. • Meier, H. 1978: Deutsche Sprachstatistik, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim. • Müller, N., Kupisch, T., Schmitz, K., Cantone, K. 2006: Einführung in die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung, Narr, Tübingen. • Stefanowitsch, A. 2020: Corpus linguistics, a guide to the methodology (Textbooks in Language Sciences 7). Language Science Press, Berlin, https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/148. • Albert, R., Koster, C. J. 2002: Empirie in Linguistik und Sprachlehrforschung. Narr, Tübingen.

Prerequisits

Prerequisits for acceding the course: None. Conditions for prerequisits: Accomplished obligations given during seminar and tutorial.

  • doc. dr. TEODOR PETRIČ

  • Concurrent student work: 50
  • Seminar paper: 50

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