Looking for practice sample sets for Linguistics classes?  Check out MIT’s OpenCourseWare website.

MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy has made available a number of their course materials ranging  from introductory classes to graduate seminars. The material available varies widely – sometimes you get just get an outline of the course and selected lecture notes, but in other cases you get sample assignments and exams (with and without solutions), problem sets,  complete lecture notes, and audiovisual materials.

Courses with course materials include:

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Language and its Structure II: Syntax
• Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes
• Topics in Linguistic Theory: Laboratory Phonology

Click here for the full list of courses.

To read more about the history and philosophy behind the MITOpenCourseware project, visit the OCW Project about page.

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Winter session exams begin on December 3 and go until December 17. The Linguistics exam schedule is here.

Did you know the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergrad courses? Studying from previous years’ exams can be a great way to supplement your course knowledge and prepare for finals. Currently, the database has exams for these Linguistics courses:

• LING 310
• LING 316
• LING 317
• LING 319

Have you ever found the perfect book at Amazon and wanted to quickly check if it was available at UBC Library? Do you wish you could find a copy of that great journal article cited on a webpage, without having to go into the Library catalogue on another webpage?

LibX is a browser plugin that provides direct access to the UBC Library’s resources from a webpage in two ways.

(1): It creates a searchbox – right in your browser toolbar – that allows you to search the UBC Catalogue, Journals, Google Scholar or WorldCat simply by highlighting or dragging-and-dropping the text. The search box is placed directly below the address bar in your browser, like this:

(2) LibX also places a tiny UBC icon
on pages displaying citation information, such as online book sellers, abstacts, or bibliographies. Clicking the icon takes you to related library offerings. For instance, on book pages at Amazon, the icon will link to the book’s entry in the UBC Library catalogue. The icon is displayed next to the book title, like this:

The icon is displayed at Google, Yahoo! Search, the NY Times Book Review, and other pages.

For more information and to download the plugin, go to: http://www.library.ubc.ca/labs/libx/

Welcome, everyone, to 2008 and the start of a new term. If you’re wanting to get a head-start on course readings, here’s a quick tip – did you know you can search for a list of course texts that your prof has put on reserve at the library? Here’s how:

1) Go to the library catalogue (http://webcat.library.ubc.ca/, or from the library home page at www.library.ubc.ca)

2) Click on the course reserve tab – it looks like this:

3) Search for your course by course name or instructor using the pull down menus, like this:

And that’s it!

The exam period runs from Dec 4 – 18 – check the Student Services portal for a list of Linguistics exam times and locations.

Did you know that the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses? Studying from these examples can be an excellent way to prepare and supplement your course knowledge. Select LING from the dropdown menu on the AMS Exam Database website to see what is available for Linguistics.

Good luck to all on your finals!

The final exam period runs from April 16-30 – check the Student Services portal for a list of Linguistics exam times and locations.

Did you know that the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses? Studying from these examples can be an excellent way to prepare and supplement your course knowledge. Select LING from the dropdown menu on the AMS Exam Database website to see what is available for Linguistics exams.

Good luck to all on your finals!