The Midterm (if given) will cover all material presented before the midterm.
The Final will cover everything, but with weighting towards the second half of the course.
You should also be comfortable with the material from the book, as the book went into further depth than the lectures had time to.
The midterm exam will be multiple-choice (looking a great deal like what you saw on the first part of the homeworks), with a phonological data analysis problem.
The final exam will include up to 100 multiple-choice questions, with a combination of multiple choice, true-false, and data analysis.
Be prepared to do phonological data analysis (like you saw in homeworks and sections) on the Midterm, as well as both that and making syntactic trees on the final.
Go back through and re-read the chapters, making notes of any areas which are unclear
Go back through the slides (posted here), making use of the podcast if you don’t remember the accompanying points made.
Look through your homeworks, and focus on the questions you got wrong, making sure you know how to get them right in case they come up again.
Look over this study guide, and make sure you can answer all of these questions and define all of the terms. I will not cover all of them, but if you can answer these things, particularly the larger conceptual questions, you’re going to rock this exam.
Answer the questions and define the terms aloud, teaching the information. It’s easy to look at an item and think “Oh, I know that one, I’m good.” But explaining the answer, in detail, as if you were talking to somebody else, can reveal gaps in your knowledge. Seriously, answer the question or define the term aloud to your bae/cat/plant/fellow bus passengers, and you’ll be much more prepared to do well on the test.
Note: You will be given a complete, non-English IPA chart for the exam.
If we’ve got a midterm, it stops here. Everything below here will be found only on the final exam, which will be cumulative!
Note: You will be given a set of phrase structure rules on the exam. Do not spend time memorizing them.