schedule

1. 2024-09-11 generalities about the course; the short stressed vowels of English (i e a o ə u) and their spelling; the put–strut split
2. 2024-09-18 want words, love words, some minor letter-to-sound correspondences (many, pretty, wolf, bury, busy); the spelling of diphthongs, digraphs
3. 2024-09-25 “nondigraphs”; rhotic and nonrhotic accents of English, compensatory lengthening, the (first) nurse merger, the force–north merger; the long vowel counterparts of short vowels, the long vowel counterparts of (some) diphthongs
4. 2024-10-02
5. 2024-10-09 no class
6. 2024-10-16 [test 1]
7. 2024-10-23 holiday
8. 2024-10-30 autumn break
9. 2024-11-06
10. 2024-11-13
11. 2024-11-20 [test 2]
12. 2024-11-27
13. 2024-12-04
14. 2024-12-11 [test 3]