1.  No written assignment this week:  Homework 9 is our last written assignment.

2.  Preparation for Monday -- Reading

Required reading:

Make a first pass on the final case in Labov and Harris.  This has lots of technical linguistics, as illustrated in Figures 11.3 - 11.6b.   We'll be working through the linguistics in class,  but for Monday you have the non-technical side of the case under control.

Optional reading:

     These are posted on the class website, with the usual password; note the suggested page numbers.  If you make a preliminary pass through this,  it will help with the class presentations.  If the class presentation is confusing, referring to this may help.

Peter Ladefoged.  2001/2006.  A Course in Phonetics
        Chapter 1 (2006):  Articulation & Acoustics: 
            Vowels pp. 11-13
        Chapter 2 (2006): Phonology & Phonetic Transcription:
            Intro pp. 1-2;  Vowels and charts pp. 4-7
        Chapter 8 (2001):  Acoustic Phonetics:  
            Vowels and formants pp.170-8, 190-3;   Figs 8.7, 8.9, 8.21, 8.22
            Individual differences and speaker identification pp. 194-6, Fig 8.22

3.  IThe take-home final exam will be distributed in class Wednesday;  the exam is due 5 pm on Wednesday, 3 May.  I'll answer questions about the exam in class Friday, so make a serious first pass on the exam before Friday's class.

1. I am not posting Monday's class recording until Wednesday, because we talked about the midterm (and will continue discussing it on Wednesday).
2. If you haven't turned in the midterm exam yet, I will accept up until midnight on Tuesday, 6 March 2018.  Also if you did turn in the midterm, but you want to make whatever improvements you want by the same deadline. 
3. Everybody who turned in the midterm got the paraphrase part of (3a) mostly right--but had important problems with the bracketing.  Everyone has the opportunity to redo the bracketing part of (3a) for credit.  It needs to be turned in by midnight on Tuesday, 6 March 2018.