Ling 531: Phonology II Schedule of Topics and Readings Prof. Gene Buckley Spring 2013
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The scheduling of topics is very much subject to change, so be sure to check this page regularly. The readings marked with a bullet • reflect the updated assignments; others will be revised as we move through the semester.

Week	Date	Topic of Lecture	Readings
1	Jan 8	Semester starts tomorrow
	Jan 10	Syllable structure	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.
2	Jan 15	Optimality Theory	John McCarthy. 2007. What is OT? Language and Linguistics Compass 1.4, 260-291.
	Jan 17	Optimal syllables; Berber syllabification	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
3	Jan 22	Extrasyllabicity; The Appendix	Marie-Hélène Côté. 2011. Final Consonants. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 36. Bert Vaux. 2004. The Appendix. Draft of paper published in 2009 with co-author Andrew Wolfe in Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology, ed. Eric Raimy & Charles Cairns, 101-143. MIT Press.
	Jan 24	(continued) Ambisyllabicity	(continued)
4	Jan 29	Word-based syllabification; Licensing by cue	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. Jungho Jun. 2011. Positional Effects in Consonant Clusters. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 46.
	Jan 31	Moraic theory; Bella Coola moraic licensing	Draga Zec. 2011. Quantity Sensitivity. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 57. Bruce Bagemihl. 1991. Syllable Structure in Bella Coola. Linguistic Inquiry 22, 589-646.
5	Feb 5	Compensatory lengthening; Richness of the Base	Randall Gess. 2011. Compensatory Lengthening. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 64. 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).
	Feb 7	Syllable alignment	Armin Mester & Jaye Padgett. 1994. Directional Syllabification in Generalized Alignment. Phonology at Santa Cruz, Vol. 3, pp. 79-85.
6	Feb 12	Contiguity and positional faithfulness	Roderic F. Casali. 1997. Vowel Elision in Hiatus Contexts: Which Vowel Goes? Language 73, 493-533. René Kager. 1999. Consonant Deletion in Dioga-Fogny. Optimality Theory, section 3.6.3. Cambridge.
	Feb 14	NC effects in OT	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	Feb 19	(continued)
	Feb 21	OT-CC and coda reduction	McCarthy, John. 2007. Slouching toward optimality: Coda reduction in OT-CC. Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series. Paper 74.
8	Feb 26	Properties of stress	Matthew Gordon. 2011. Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 39.
	Feb 28	Foot typology	Michael Hammond. 2011. The Foot. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 40. Brent Hyde. 2011. The Iambic-Trochaic Law. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 44.
Spring Break, March 4-8
9	Mar 12	Extrametricality	Brent Hyde. 2011. Extrametricality and Non-finality. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 43.
	Mar 14	(continued)
10	Mar 19	Brackets and edges	Morris Halle & William Idsardi. 1995. General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. The Handbook of Phonology, Blackwell, 403-443.
	Mar 21	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.
11	Mar 26	Lapse and directionality	René Kager. 2001. Rhythmic Directionality by Positional Licensing. Fifth HIL Phonology Conference (HILP 5), University of Potsdam, 11 January 2001. Supplement: Eugene Buckley. 2009. Locality in metrical typology. Phonology 26, 389-435.
	Mar 28	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.
12	Apr 2	Infixation and reduplication	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.
	Apr 4	Emergence of the unmarked; Generalized template theory	Michael Becker & Kathryn Flack Potts. 2011. The Emergence of the Unmarked. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 58.
13	Apr 9	Templatic morphology	Outi Bat-El. 2011. Semitic templates. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 108.
	Apr 11	Geminates and tiers	Stuart Davis. 2011. Geminates. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 37. Adam Ussishkin. 2011. Tier Segregation. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 105.
14	Apr 16	Opacity in OT	Adam Albright. 2011. Paradigms. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 83.
	Apr 18	Sympathy and OT-CC	John McCarthy. 1999. Sympathy and Phonological Opacity. Phonology 16, 331–399.
15	Apr 23	Lexical Phonology and Stratal OT	Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo. 2004. Raising and Flapping in Canadian English: Grammar and Acquisition. Handout of paper presented at the CASTL Colloquium, University of Tromsø, November 2.
	Apr 25	Reading day