Ling 530: Phonology I

Topics

Prof. Gene Buckley
Fall 2007

TR 1:30–3
616 Williams Hall


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In the list of readings, the following abbreviations are used; numbers indicate the page range to read.

P = Kenstowicz's Phonology in Generative Grammar
OT = Kager's Optimality Theory

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 Sept 6 phonology as grammar P 1-10
2 Sept 11 consonant articulation P 136-145, 12-19
Sept 13 vowel articulation P 168-191
3 Sept 18 (continued)  
Sept 20 distinctive features: consonant manner P 19-48
4 Sept 25 distinctive features: consonant place —
Sept 27 distinctive features: vowels —
5 Oct 2 sound distributions; levels of representation P 57-81
Oct 4 phonological alternations P 89-103
6 Oct 9 underlying forms P 103-114
Oct 11 Class cancelled for NWAV conference  
7 Oct 16 Fall Break  
Oct 18 Optimality Theory OT 1-27 (optional to p. 48)
8 Oct 23 NC effects OT 52-88
Oct 25 length; syllables P 250-285
9 Oct 30 Optimal syllables OT 91-117
Nov 1 Berber syllabification; extrasyllabicity; midterm handed out Prince and Smolensky 1993 (pp. 11-21)
10 Nov 6 moraic theory, P 285-298
Nov 8 compensatory lengthening; Richness of the Base; midterm due Kawahara 2002 (pp. 44-49, or to 58); McCarthy 2002 (pp. 76-80)
11 Nov 13 syllable alignment, contiguity; word-based syllabification OT 248–252
Nov 15 properties of stress P 548-562
12 Nov 20 foot typology P 562-566, 587-605
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Break  
13 Nov 27 extrametricality —
Nov 29 brackets and edges P 605-613
14 Dec 4 stress in OT OT 142-177 (skim to 190)
Dec 6 lapse and directionality Kager 2001