The seminar will take place in January 2017. The exact dates and times are to be specified.

Each unit (e.g. lecture/seminar) will last 45 minutes. There will be 4 units every day for the period of 5 days.

Day 1: Lecture1: Language variation and change (LVC) - introduction

Seminar: Introduction to Praat

Lecture2: Methodology used in LVC

Lecture3: Vocalic changes

Day 2: Seminar1: Analysing vowels - introduction

Seminar2: Front vowel shift

Lecture1: Actuation problem

Lecture2: Embedding problem

Day 3: Lecture1: Consonantal changes in obstruents

Seminar1: Pre-aspiration, glottalisation, and glottalling

Seminar2: Post-aspiration and affrication

Seminar3: dh-stopping

Day 4: Lecture1: Transmission problem: Critical Period Hypothesis

Lecture 2: LVC beyond segments

Seminar 1: Creaky voice

Seminar 2: Creaky voice II

Day 5: Seminar 1: in-class analysis

Seminar 2: in-class analysis

Lecture1: Propagation models

Lecture 2: Social, cognitive, or biological?