The lecture notes below present material not often covered in typical linguistics courses. These lecture notes are designed to be approachable for students in relevant courses. These lecture notes can be used as supplemental readings for students, and instructors may also find them helpful for their own background preparation.
Each document is tagged with its intended target course in [blue square brackets]:
[intro] = a typical general introduction to linguistics
[phonetics] = a dedicated phonetics course covering articulatory and acoustic phonetics
[phonology] = a dedicated phonology course covering rules, representations, and syllable structure
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Sex and gender
Social biases
The complexity of language perception: Social information and biases
[intro]
[phonetics]
[phonology]
Signed language phonetics and phonology
Signed language articulation (simplified)
[intro]
[phonology]
coming soon!
Signed language articulation (detailed)
[phonology]
coming soon!