Ling 531: Phonology II Schedule of Topics and Readings Prof. Gene Buckley Spring 2012
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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 10	Semester starts tomorrow
	Jan 12	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 17	Optimality Theory	John McCarthy. 2007. What is OT? Language and Linguistics Compass 1.4, 260-291.
	Jan 19	Optimal syllables; Berber syllabification	Alan Prince & Paul Smolensky. 1993. Core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar, pp. 11-22. you can also download the entire document, which was published as a book in 2004
3	Jan 24	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 26	(continued) Ambisyllabicity	(continued)
4	Jan 31	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.
	Feb 2	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 7	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 9	Syllable alignment and contiguity	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.
6	Feb 14	NC effects in OT	OT 52-88; Solé et al. 2010
	Feb 16	Properties of stress	P 548-562
7	Feb 21	Foot typology	P 562-566, 587-605
	Feb 23	Extrametricality
8	Feb 29	Metrical constituency	P 593-605, 566-587
	Mar 1	Brackets and edges	P 605-613
Spring Break, March 5-9
9	Mar 13	Stress in OT	OT 142-177 (skim to 190)
	Mar 15	Lapse and directionality	Kager 2001
10	Mar 20	Metrical locality	Buckley 2009
	Mar 22	Reduplication	P 622-633; OT 194-216, 230-252 See page by Hal Schiffman on Echo reduplication
11	Mar 27	Infixation and reduplication	OT 223-230 Morphological doubling:  Inkelas and Zoll 2000
	Mar 29	Emergence of the unmarked; Generalized template theory	P 646-658; OT 216-230
12	Apr 3	Geminates and tiers	P 410-420
	Apr 5	no class today
13	Apr 10	Templatic morphology	P 395-410
	Apr 12	(continued)
14	Apr 17	Opacity in OT	Kenstowicz 1996
	Apr 19	Sympathy and OT-CC	McCarthy 1999
15	Apr 24	Lexical Phonology and Stratal OT	Bermúdez-Otero 2004
	Apr 26	Reading day	—