Linguistics 563

Sound Change in Progress

Instructor: William Labov

        Email: labov@comcast.net
        Office: Linguistics Lab, 3810 Walnut St.

Class meetings

Monday 9-11
Linguistics Lab 3810 Walnut St.

Syllabus.

Readings

PLC 3: Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. 3: Cognitive and cultural factors. (order from Wiley http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-144435146X.html

Martinet, Andre.1952. Function, structure and sound change. Word 8:1-32.

Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo. 2007. Diachronic phonology. In Paul de Lacy (ed.),The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 497-517.

Plotnik10 Latest version with general documentation and documentation on interaction with PRAAT

PowerPoint class presentations

9/10/12 Hierarchical structure of American English vowels

Assignments

L563F12.A01 Structure of a phonological system.

L563F12.A02 Triggering events

L563F12.A0B Acoustic measurement with PRAAT and Plotnik

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