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.
Additional information on implementation and assessment • seminar paper, 50%
• homework assignments and active participation. 50%
