# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Weekly Build Log](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/assessments/build-log/): One short entry a week — the film you watched, the subsystem you added, and what the film changed about the decision you made
- [Phonology and Grammar Portfolio](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/assessments/portfolio/): Your language systems rather than its vocabulary — inventory, phonotactics, morphology and syntax, written so that somebody else could build from them
- [The Language](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/assessments/the-language/): The finished language — description, lexicon, script and a glossed text — plus the crit, where you read it aloud and somebody else reads a sentence back
- [What Arrival Gets Wrong](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/assessments/what-arrival-gets-wrong/): An essay on the film's claim about language and thought, what the research actually shows, and how the two differ
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Starting with the language, not the story](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-01/): Tolkien built his languages first and the world afterwards. What that order of work asks of you, and the four questions your design brief has to answer
- [The sound inventory](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-02/): Every language uses a small subset of the sounds a human can make. Choosing yours, in IPA, and living with the consequences
- [Words that carry their own grammar](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-03/): Morphology — the smallest pieces that mean anything, and three different ways of gluing them into words. Okrand's Klingon as the worked example
- [Word order is a decision](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-04/): Six possible orders, two of which cover most of the world's languages. What yours predicts about the rest of your grammar, whether you meant it to or not
- [Which sounds can sit together](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-05/): Phonotactics — the rules about which sounds can follow which. Frommer built Na'vi for actors who had to learn it quickly and pronounce it accurately on camera
- [Where words come from](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-06/): Building a lexicon — core vocabulary, derivation, and getting a thousand words out of two hundred roots. Herbert borrowed heavily, and it is worth asking how
- [Variation and register](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-07/): Pidgins, creoles and register. A language with only one way of saying something is not finished yet
- [Writing it down](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-08/): Five ways to write a language, and what a script tells you about who could read it, what they wrote on, and how quickly they worked
- [Language and thought](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-09/): The film makes a strong claim about language and thought. The evidence supports a much weaker version of it, which is the more useful claim to examine
- [Learning it from strangers](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-10/): Comprehensible input, the critical period, and one of the few scenes in cinema that depicts language acquisition roughly correctly
- [Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-11/): Pragmatics — you can know every word in a sentence and still not know what it means. The final subsystem your language needs, and the hardest to set down
- [The crit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/lectures/week-12/): No screening this week. You read a text aloud in a language that did not exist in February, and somebody who has never seen it reads a sentence back
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor who runs the Thursday workshops, and the person most likely to ask you to pronounce a sound you have written down but not yet tried saying.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/people/marisol-quaye/): A phonetician who spent eleven years documenting languages with very few remaining speakers, and now teaches students to build new ones.
- [Wren Halloran](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/people/wren-halloran/): A type designer who visits in week eight to teach script design that works in practice — letterforms you can actually write, quickly and by hand.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/policies/): Attendance at screenings, extensions, integrity, and the rules about using a language somebody else already built.
- [The design brief](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/01-the-design-brief/): The first workshop — you leave with one page describing a language that does not exist yet, and at least one fixed constraint to design around
- [Choosing your sounds](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/02-choosing-your-sounds/): The workshop where your language stops being an idea — you fix an inventory in IPA, then pronounce every sound in it to the group
- [Building words](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/03-building-words/): You pick a morphological type, commit to it, and build ten words that obey rules you wrote down before you started
- [Ordering the sentence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/04-ordering-the-sentence/): Fix your word order, then work out what follows from it — questions, negation, and the first sentence of your language anybody can read
- [What your actors can say](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/05-what-your-actors-can-say/): You write your syllable structure as a formula, then read twenty of your own words aloud and fix any you cannot pronounce consistently
- [The first hundred words](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/06-the-first-hundred-words/): A hundred words by the end of the day, at least twenty of them generated by rules rather than invented, and a written record of everything you borrowed
- [Who speaks it badly](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/07-who-speaks-it-badly/): Your language gains a second register and a population of imperfect speakers, so that it reads as a language people actually use
- [Writing it down](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/08-writing-it-down/): You design a script and then test it by hand — writing the same sentence three times, at speed
- [What words do to thought](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/09-what-words-do-to-thought/): An essay workshop — you leave with a thesis you can defend and one experimental paper you have actually read
- [Teaching it to someone](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/10-teaching-it-to-someone/): You teach a fragment of your language to somebody outside this course, watch what breaks, and change your language because of it
- [What goes without saying](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/11-what-goes-without-saying/): The last building workshop. Context-dependent meaning, one thing your language cannot express without a paraphrase, and the first read-through of your crit text
- [Fifteen minutes each](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-hemansii/sessions/12-the-crit/): Twelve lines, read aloud, in a language you built. Then somebody who has never seen it reads a sentence back to you