Regular attendance of the main session. If you miss any sessions without a written excuse or if you miss more than three sessions total without prior arrangement, you will not be admitted to the final exam. Attendance will be measured in a number of ways.

Thorough preparation of the readings for each session. The chapters that are relevant are clearly indicated in the relevant information for each week.

Completion of all homework exercises and regular attendance of a tutorial. Tutorials are obligatory and are an essential part of making sure that you are on track with the material covered in the course. Waiting until the end of the course before finding out that you have not understood how to do something will be too late. Much of linguistics is to do with practice and the tutorials are where you can make sure that you are getting enough!

Participation in experiments. From time to time you will be given the opportunity to participate in linguistic experiments of various kinds run by members of the university. These are generally good fun and give an indication of some of the directions empirical research can take. This is a proper part of the course and so you should make sure you attend at least one experiment lasting at least one hour during the semester.Some experiments are quite short: in this case you may need to do two to make up your full hour!

Successful participation in the final exam. To successfully complete the course you must obtain a pass grade in the final exam. The exam is based on the reading package, the material covered in classes, the extra background readings, and the tutorials.