Fall 2000

Instructor: Rolf Noyer

This seminar will focus on theories of phonological distinctive features. We will restrict our attention to supralaryngeal features, reserving the study of the features for tone and phonation type for a separate course.

Presentation of readings to the class.

Term paper (approximately 20-30 pp.) due at the end of the semester.

Meeting Time: W 2:30-4:30. Williams 616.

Reading list

I. Foundations.

Anderson, Stephen R. 1984. Phonology in the Twentieth Century. Chapters 4-5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Jakobson, Roman, C. Gunnar M. Fant, and Morris Halle. 1951. Preliminaries to speech analysis. MIT Press, Cambridge.

Chomsky, Noam, and Morris Halle. 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. Harper & Row, New York.

Hale, Mark and Charles Reiss. 2000. ‘ "Substance abuse" and "Dysfunctionalism": Current Trends in Phonology.’ LI 31:1, 157-169.

Padgett, Jaye. 1995. ‘Feature Classes.’ UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics vol. 18, 385-420.

Gafos, Adamantios. 1998. ‘Eliminating long-distance consonantal spreading.’ NLLT 16: 223-278.

Ni Chiosain, Maire and Jaye Padgett. 1997. ‘Markedness, segment realisation and locality in spreading.’ Report LRC-97-01. Linguistics Research Center, UCSC.

Ni Chiosain, Maire and Jaye Padgett. 1997. ‘Inherent V-Place.’ UC Santa Cruz Working Papers.

Halle, Morris, Bert Vaux and Andrew Wolfe. 2000. ‘On feature spreading and the representation of place of articulation.’ LI 31:3: 387-444.

Phillips, Colin. 1994. ‘Are feature hierarchies autosegmental hierarchies?’ MITWPL 21

Stevens, Kenneth N. and Samuel J. Keyser. 1989. ‘Primary features and their enhancement in consonants.’ 65:1:81-106.

Keyser, Samuel Jay, and Kenneth N. Stevens. 1994. ‘Feature geometry and the vocal tract.’ Phonology 11: 2-207-236.

Browman, Catherine and Louis M. Goldstein. 1986. ‘Towards an articulatory phonology.’ Phonology 3: 219-252.

Gorecka, Alicja. 1989. Phonology of Articulation. MIT dissertation.

Calabrese, Andrea. 1993. ‘On palatalization processes: An inquiry about the nature of a sound change.’ Ms. UConn.

Hume, Elizabeth Valerie. 1996. ‘Coronal consonant, front vowel parallels in Maltese.’ NLLT 14:1, 163-203.

Hall, T. Alan. 1997. The phonology of coronals. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. 1993. ‘The feature geometry of coronal subplaces.’ UMOP 16: Phonological Representations, 27-68.

Iverson, Gregory K. 1989. ‘On the category Supralaryngeal.’ Phonology 6: 285-303.

Cho, Young-mee and Sharon Inkelas. 1993. ‘Major class alternations.’ WCCFL

Hume, Elizabeth and David Odden. 1996. ‘Reconsidering consonantal.’ Phonology 13: 3:345-376.

Rice, Keren. 1992. ‘On deriving sonority: a structural account of sonority relationships.’ Phonology 9: 61-99.

Padgett, Jaye. 1994. ‘Stricture and Nasal Place Assimilation.’ NLLT 12:3:465-514.

Sagey, Elizabeth. 1988. ‘Degree of closure in complex segments.’ Features, segmental structure and harmony processes, part 1. Dordrecht, Foris. 170-208.

Selkirk, Elisabeth. 1991. ‘Major place in the vowel space: Vowel height features.’ Ms. UMass, Amherst.

Bessell, Nicola Jane. 1996. ‘Local and non-local consonant-vowel interaction in Interior Salish’. Phonology 15:1: 1-40.

Davis, Stuart. 1995. ‘Emphasis spread in Arabic and grounded phonology.’ LI 26:3:465-498.

Trigo, Loren. 1991. ‘On pharynx-larynx interactions.’ Phonology 8: 113-136.

Vaux, Bert. 1996. ‘The status of ATR in feature geometry.’ LI 27:1:175-182.

Ewen, Colin J. 1995. ‘Dependency Relations in Phonology.’ In Goldsmith Handbook, 570-585.

Schane, Sanford A. 1995. ‘Diphthongization in particle phonology.’ In Goldsmith Handbook, 586-605.

Scobbie, James M. 1991. Attribute-value phonology. Univ. of Edinburgh dissertation.

(Included here are readings covered in Ling 531. We will not read them in class.)

Clements, G.N. and Elizabeth V. Hume. 1995. The Internal Organization of Speech Sounds. In Goldsmith handbook, 245-307.

Calabrese, Andrea. 1995. ‘A constraint-based theory of phonological markedness and simplification procedures.’ LI 26:3:376-473.

Clements, G.N. 1985. The geometry of phonological features. Phonology Yearbook 2:225-252.

Clements, G.N. 1991. A unified set of features for consonants and vowels. Ms. Cornell.

Clements, G.N. 1991. Vowel height assimilation in Bantu languages. Proceedings of the Special Session on African Language Structures, 25-64. BLS.

McCarthy, John 1988. ‘Feature geometry and dependency: a review.’ Phonetica 43:84-108.

Sagey, Elizabeth. 1986. The representation of features and relations in non-linear phonology.

Steriade, Donca. 1987. Locality conditions and feature geometry. NELS 17: 339-362.

Steriade, Donca. 1993. ‘Closure, release and nasal contours.’ Phonetics and Phonology, vol. 5: Nasals, nasalization and the velum. Academic Press, 401-470.

Piggott, G.L. 1992. ‘Variability in feature dependency, the case of nasality.’ NLLT 10:1: 33 -37.

Ni Chiosain, Maire. 1994. ‘Irish palatalisation and the representation of place features.’ Phonology 11:1:89-106.

Shaw, Patricia. 1991. Consonant harmony systems: The special status of coronal harmony. In: Phonetics and Phonology 2: The special status of coronals, ed. Carole Paradis and J.-F. Prunet, 125-157. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. 1997. ‘Features, gestures, and Igbo vowels: An approach to the phonology-phonetics interface.’ Language 73:2:227-274.

McMahon, April, Paul Folkes, Laura Tollfree. 1994. ‘Gestural representation and lexical phonology.’ Phonology 11: 2-277-316.

Hoberman, Robert D. 1989. ‘Parameters of emphasis: autosegmental analyses of pharyngealization in four languages.’ Jor. of Afroasiatic languages 2: 1.73-97.

Watson, Janet E. 1999. ‘The directionality of emphasis spread in Arabic.’ LI 30:2:289-300.

Rice, Keren. 1996. ‘Default Variability: The coronal-velar relationship.’ NLLT: 14:3:493-543.

Lahiri, A. and V. Evers. 1991. ‘Palatalization and Coronality.’ In: Phonetics and Phonology 2: The special status of coronals, ed. Carole Paradis and Jean-Francois Prunet, 79-99. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Rice, Keren and Peter Avery. 1991. ‘On the relationship between laterality and coronality.’ In: Phonetics and Phonology, vol. 2: The special status of coronals, Academic Press, 101-123.

Goad, Heather. 1991. ‘Dependency and complementarity in vowel geometry.’ The Linguistic Review 8: 185-208.