Ling 531: Phonology II Schedule of Topics and Readings Prof. Gene Buckley Spring 2015
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The scheduling of topics is under development, so be sure to check this page regularly.

Week	Date	Topic of Lecture	Readings	Assignments
1	Jan  13	Semester starts tomorrow References for syllable structure review	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.
	Jan 15	Optimal Berber syllables	John McCarthy. 2007. What is OT? Language and Linguistics Compass 1.4, 260-291. 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	Homework 1 distributed: Syllables in OT
2	Jan 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.
	Jan 22	Moraic theory	Draga Zec. 2011. Quantity Sensitivity. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 57. Randall Gess. 2011. Compensatory Lengthening. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 64.	Homework 1 due Homework 2 distributed: Moras
3	Jan 27	Stress and feet	Matthew Gordon. 2011. Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 39. Michael Hammond. 2011. The Foot. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 40. Brent Hyde. 2011. The Iambic-Trochaic Law. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 44.
	Jan 29	Extrametricality	Brent Hyde. 2011. Extrametricality and Non-finality. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 43.	Homework 2 due Homework 3 distributed: Stress and feet
4	Feb 3	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.
	Feb 5	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).	Homework 3 due Homework 4 distributed: Stress in OT
5	Feb 10	Lapse and directionality	René Kager. 2001. Rhythmic Directionality by Positional Licensing. Fifth HIL Phonology Conference (HILP 5), University of Potsdam, 11 January 2001.
	Feb 12	Brackets and edges	Morris Halle & William Idsardi. 1995. General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. The Handbook of Phonology, Blackwell, 403-443.	Homework 4 due Homework 5 distributed: Prosodic alignment
6	Feb 17	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.
	Feb 19	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. Kager 1999 on Murut reduplication	Homework 5 due Homework 6 distributed: Prosodic morphology
7	Feb 24	Geminates and tiers	Stuart Davis. 2011. Geminates. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 37. Adam Ussishkin. 2011. Tier segregation. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 105.
	Feb 26	Templatic morphology	Outi Bat-El. 2011. Semitic templates. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 108.	Homework 6 due Begin work on paper topic
8	Mar 3	Direction and position	Armin Mester & Jaye Padgett. 1994. Directional Syllabification in Generalized Alignment. Phonology at Santa Cruz, Vol. 3, pp. 79-85. 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.
	Mar 5	canceled due to snow
Spring Break, March 9-13
9	Mar 17	Emergence of the unmarked; Generalized template theory	Michael Becker & Kathryn Flack Potts. 2011. The Emergence of the Unmarked. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 58.	Paper topic due
	Mar 19	Conspiracies: 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.
10	Mar 24	canceled due to illness
	Mar 26	OT-CC and coda reduction	McCarthy, John. 2008. The gradual path to cluster simplification. Phonology 25, 271-319.
11	Mar 31	Pitch accent	Larry M. Hyman. 2006. Word-prosodic typology. Phonology 23, 225-257. (supplemental) Moira Yip. 2002. Tone, chapter 4: The autosegmental nature of tone, and its analysis in Optimality Theory. Cambridge.
	Apr 2	no class today
12	Apr 7	Primitive OT	Jason Eisner. 1999. Doing OT in a Straitjacket. Handout from talk at UCLA, June 14. (supplemental) Jason Eisner. 1997. FootForm Decomposed: Using primitive constraints in OT. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 31: Proceedings of SCIL VIII.
	Apr 9	Opacity in OT	Adam Albright. 2011. Paradigms. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 83.	Paper due by midnight
13	Apr 14	Sympathy and OT-CC	John McCarthy. 1999. Sympathy and phonological opacity. Phonology 16, 331–399.
	Apr 16	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.	Abstract due by midnight tomorrow
14	Apr 21	TBA
	Apr 23	Mini-conference	student presentations	Send abstract comments the night before
15	Apr 28	Mini-conference	student presentations	Send abstract comments the night before
	Apr 30	Reading day