Linguistics 660
]Dissertation Seminar
Email: labov@comcast.net
Office: Linguistics Lab, 3810 Walnut St. |
Class meetings
Tuesday, 1:30-3:30
Linguistics Lab 3810 Walnut St. |
Stanford & Kenny: An Agent-Based Computational Interpretation of the Transmission and Diffusion of Vowel Chain Shifts across Large Communities
Labov, Transmission and Diffusion (PowerPoint)
For discussion on Tuesday 1/31:
Yang, the Great Number Crunch (review of Bod et al., Probabilistic Linguistics), 2007
Pierrehumbert, Word Specific Linguistics, 2002
Bybee, Word Frequency and Context of Use, 2002
For discussion on Tuesday, 2/7. Topic: The life history of a sound change.
Bermudez-Otero, Diachronic Phonology
Janda & Joseph: "Big bang" theory of sound change
For discussion on Tuesday, 2/21. Topic: Incrementation
Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. 2: Ch. 14. Incrementation.
Tagliamonte, Sali A. and Alexandra D'Arcy. 2009. Peaks beyond phonology: Adolescence, incrementation, and language change. Language 85:58-108
For discussion on Tuesday, 2/28. Topic: The transition from quantitative to qualitative change
Stevens, Kenneth and S. J. Keyser. 2010. Quantal theory, enhancement and overlap. Journal of Phonetics 38.
Cohn, Abigail C. 2007. Phonetics in Phonology and Phonology in Phonetics. Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory.
For discussion on Tuesday, March 6th.
Chapter 4: Mechanism of complexification, from Peter Trudgill, Sociolinguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2011.