First day

What this course is, and who is running it

Utku Turk

LING 449U, How words are built

2026-09-01

Who is talking

utku turk

The key to the cabinets are rusty

The key to the cabinets are rusty

task effects

task effects

haute couture

haute couture

haute couture

I really like surveys

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

• BQ: send a question for the reading

• Syntheses: half a page, reflecting on questions
  • Why speech cannot be reverse of listening???

• Presentation: choose a paper and present it

• Project
  • Do you change your way of speaking as a function of listeners?

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

• Email me in advance if you cannot make it

• Same for assignments

• Valid excuse example:
  • I was out drinking and couldn’t work sorry.

• Also if you did not understand something

• Also if you saw something funny or had a cool idea

utkuturk@umd.edu

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

• I beg you not to send AI slop

• I really do not care about a perfect answer, or presentation, or idea.

• What I want to see? Annoyance, anger, frustration, admiration, love, inspiration, etc.

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

• Please be respectful to each other
  • Which includes giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, especially when you disagree with each other.

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

Question about the syllabus?

What do we all care about

I really like surveys

• Did you check the syllabus?

Linguistics background?

Why should anybody care about language production?

Why should anybody care about morphology or words?

What do I care about?

What do you all care about?

For Wednesday

Read Griffin & Ferreira (2006) up to 1.3, Generating function words and morphemes (roughly page 15).

Send me one question about it before class.