Topics for Ling 530

Ling 530: Phonology I

Topics

Prof. Gene Buckley
Fall 2015
TR 1:30–3
616 Williams Hall

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The scheduling of topics and and list of readings will be updated weekly, so check this page frequently. Scheduling remains tentative until the week in question.

Week	Date	Topic	Readings
1	Aug 27	phonology as grammar	Iris Berent. 2013. The phonological mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17.7, 319-327.
2	Sept 1	consonant articulation	Gerald P. Delahunty & James J. Garvey. 2010. The English language: From sound to sense. Chapter 4, Phonetics and phonology. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press. [The last part, on phonology, will not be immediately relevant.] Peter Ladefoged. 1993. A course in phonetics, 3rd edition. Chapter 1, Articulatory phonetics. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Peter Roach. 1998. English phonetics and phonology: A practical course, 2nd edition. [For those needing more background, though note British vs. American dialect differences.] Peter Roach. 2011. Glossary: A little encyclopaedia of phonetics. [For reference.]
2	Sept 3	vowel articulation
3	Sept 8	distinctive features: consonant manner	Bruce Hayes. 2009. Introductory phonology. Chapter 4, Features. Wiley-Blackwell. Jeff Mielke. 2011. Distinctive features. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 17. Ellen Kaisse. 2011. The Stricture Features. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 13. Bert Botma. 2011. Sonorants. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 17. Keren Rice. 2011. Consonantal Place of Articulation. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 22.
3	Sept 10	distinctive features: consonant place
4	Sept 15	distinctive features: vowels	Bruce Morén-Duollja 2011. Vowel place. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 19. Douglas Pulleyblank. 2011. Vowel height. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 21.
4	Sept 17	sound distributions; levels of representation	Bruce Hayes. 2009. Introductory phonology. Chapter 2, Phonemic analysis, and Chapter 3, More on phonemes. Wiley-Blackwell. Elan Dresher. 2011. The phoneme. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 11.
5	Sept 22	rule ordering	Bruce Hayes. 2009. Introductory phonology. Chapter 7, Phonological alternation II, and Chapter 8, Morphophonemic analysis. Wiley-Blackwell. Joan Mascaró. 2011. Rule Ordering. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 74.
5	Sept 24	underlying forms	Bruce Hayes. 2009. Introductory phonology. Chapter 12, Abstractness. Wiley-Blackwell. Jennifer Cole & José Ignacio Hualde. 2011. Underlying Representations. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 1. Michael Kenstowicz. 1994. Phonology in Generative Grammar. Section on Yawelmani, pp. 107-114. Blackwell.
6	Sept 29	Optimality Theory	John McCarthy. 2007. What is OT? Language and Linguistics Compass 1.4, 260-291.
6	Oct 1	NC effects	Joe Pater. 1999. Austronesian nasal substitution and other NC̥ effects. The prosody–morphology interface, ed. R. Kager, H. van der Hulst & W. Zonneveld, pp. 310–343. Cambridge University Press. Maria-Josep Solé, Larry M. Hyman & Kemmonye C. Monaka. 2010. More on post-nasal devoicing: The case of Shekgalagari. Journal of Phonetics 38, 604-615.
7	Oct 6	length; syllables	Bruce Hayes. 2009. Syllables. Introductory Phonology, chapter 13. Steve Parker. 2011. Sonority. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 49. Anna Bosch. 2011. Syllable-internal Structure. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 33.
7	Oct 8	Fall Break
8	Oct 13	Optimal syllables	Diana Archangeli. 1997. Optimality Theory: An Introduction to Linguistics in the 1990s. Optimality Theory: An Overview, ed. Diana Archangeli & D. Terence Langendoen. Chapter 1, pp. 1-32. Blackwell.
8	Oct 15	Berber syllabification; midterm handed out	Alan Prince & Paul Smolensky. 2002. Core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar, pp. 11-22. [Corrected draft of 1993 manuscript.] you can also download the entire document, which was published as a book in 2004
9	Oct 20	Consonants at edges	Marie-Hélène Côté. 2011. Final Consonants. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 36. Jungho Jun. 2011. Positional Effects in Consonant Clusters. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 46.
9	Oct 22	moraic theory; midterm due	Draga Zec. 2011. Quantity Sensitivity. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 57. Randall Gess. 2011. Compensatory Lengthening. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 64.
10	Oct 27	compensatory lengthening; Richness of the Base	John McCarthy. 2008. Inputs in Ranking Arguments. Doing Optimality Theory; section 2.8 (pp. 87-94). Shigeto Kawahara 2002. Compensatory Lengthening and Richness of the Base. Similarity among Variants: Output-Variant Correspondence, undergraduate thesis, International Christian University; sections 3.3 to 3.5 (pp. 41-55).
10	Oct 29	syllable alignment, contiguity	Roderic Casali. 2011. Hiatus Resolution. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 61. Nancy Hall. 2011. Vowel Epenthesis. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 67.
11	Nov 3	word-based syllabification	Donca Steriade. 1999. Alternatives to Syllable-Based Accounts of Consonantal Phonotactics. Manuscript of paper published in Proceedings of LP’98: Item order in language and speech, ed. Bohumil Palek, Osamu Fujimura, Brian D. Joseph, pp. 205-245. Prague: The Karolinum Press.
11	Nov 5	properties of stress and feet	Matthew Gordon. 2011. Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 39. Bruce Hayes. 2009. Introductory phonology. Chapter 14, Stress. Wiley-Blackwell. Michael Hammond. 2011. The Foot. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 40. Brent Hyde. 2011. The Iambic-Trochaic Law. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 44.
12	Nov 10	extrametricality	Brent Hyde. 2011. Extrametricality and Non-finality. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 43.
12	Nov 12	brackets and edges	Morris Halle & William Idsardi. 1995. General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. The Handbook of Phonology, Blackwell, 403-443.
13	Nov 17	stress in OT	Alan Prince & Paul Smolensky. 2002. Interaction of Weight Effects with Extrametricality; Nonfinality and Nonexhaustiveness. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar, pp. 38-49. John McCarthy & Alan Prince. 1993. "Constraints on Prosodic Edges: Align(PCat, PCat)." Section 3 (pp. 11-21) of Generalized Alignment. Published in Yearbook of Morphology, pp. 79-153.
13	Nov 19	lapse and directionality	René Kager. 2001. Rhythmic Directionality by Positional Licensing. Fifth HIL Phonology Conference (HILP 5), University of Potsdam, 11 January 2001.
14	Nov 24	opacity in OT	Michael Kenstowicz. 1996. Base-Identity and Uniform Exponence. Jacques Durand & Bernard Laks, eds., Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods. Adam Albright. 2011. "Grammatical mechanisms for deriving paradigm effects": Section 3 of Paradigms. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 83.
14	Nov 26	Thanksgiving
15	Dec 1	reduplication	Eric Raimy. 2011. Reduplication. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 100. See page by Hal Schiffman on echo-word reduplication Supplement: Sharon Inkelas & Cheryl Zoll. 2000. Reduplication as Morphological Doubling.
15	Dec 3	infixation	John McCarthy & Alan Prince. 1993. "Generalized Alignment and Infixation." Section 4 (pp. 21-36) of Generalized Alignment. Published in Yearbook of Morphology, pp. 79-153.
16	Dec 8	emergence of the unmarked	Michael Becker & Kathryn Flack Potts. 2011. The Emergence of the Unmarked. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 58.
16	Dec 10	Reading Day