Overview of Distinctive Features
Assignment #3 is due on October, 30 (Tuesday), by 5 p.m.
Assignment #4 is due on November, 13 (Tuesday), by 5 p.m.
Assignment #5 is due on November, 27 (Tuesday), by 5 p.m.
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Phonology 2100-1 Fall 2001 Detailed outline (subject to modifications) |
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TOPICS
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READING
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(*) graded assignments
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Sept.6 Thursday |
Overview Syllabus, requirements. Phonology and phonetics. Generative phonology. Structure of the course. |
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Sept 11 Tuesday |
Sound production Vocal tract and stages of sound production. Glottal status; voice onset time. |
Giegerich (on reserve) Ladefoged (optional) (on reserve) on-line phonetics course: http://www.unil.ch/ling/phonetique/api-eng.html Jensen: ch.1, p.4, p.8 |
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Sept 13 Thursday |
Consonants Obstruents: stops, fricatives, affricates. Sonorants: nasals, trills, flaps, laterals, and glides. Place and manner of articulation. Active and passive articulators. |
Giegerich (on reserve) Jensen: ch.1, p.2-9 |
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Sept 18 Tuesday |
Vowels Cardinal vowels and vowel space. Monophtongs and diphtongs. |
Giegerich (on reserve) Jensen: ch.1, p.9-11 |
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Sept 20 Thursday |
Phonetic symbols and transcription IPA alphabet. Suprasegmentals. Broad and narrow transcription. Other symbols and diacritics. |
Jensen: ch.1, p.11-12, p.19-24 | (*1) |
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Sept 25 Tuesday |
Distribution and representations Distributions. Contrast vs predictability. Underlying representation and phoneme/basic form. Surface representation and allophones/alternants. Minimal pairs. |
Jensen: ch.2, p. 27-34 Carr, on reserve: The phonemic principle. |
(*1) is due.
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Sept 27 Thursday |
Distribution and representations (cont.) Free variation. Basic Rule formalisms. |
Jensen: ch.2, p.36-42 | |
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Oct 2 Tuesday |
Phonological processes Assimilation, dissimilation, lenition, fortition, insertion, deletion, lengthening, shortening. Pattern congruity. |
Jensen: ch.2, p. 39-42, p.34-35, p.44-45 Spencer, on reserve. Summary of Common Segment Processes.
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Oct 4 Thursday |
Distinctive features-vowels Phonological segments as complexes of (binary) features. Turkish vowel harmony. |
Jensen: ch.3, p.55-61 | |
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Oct 9 Tuesday |
Distinctive features-consonants Major class features and consonants. |
Jensen: ch.3, p.61-69 Spencer, on reserve. Distinctive Features and the Classification of Sounds. |
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Oct 11 Thursday |
Distinctive features (cont.) |
Jensen: ch.3, p.69-73 | |
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Oct 16 Tuesday |
Review for Mid-term test |
Jensen: ch.1-3 | |
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Oct 18 Thursday |
Mid-term test | ||
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Oct 23 Tuesday |
Alternations
Phonological form of morphemes. Russian final obstruent devoicing |
Jensen: ch.4, p.79-84 | |
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Oct 25 Thursday |
Alternations (cont.) The ATR vowel harmony system in Pulaar and Yoruba.
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Jensen: ch.4, p.84-87 | (*3) |
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Oct 30 Tuesday |
Alternations (cont.) Phonological analysis (listing of distribution, stating the generalization, writing the rule, testing the rule with sample data). Other conventions. |
Jensen: ch.4, p. 91-100 |
(*3) is due. |
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Nov 1 Thursday |
Alternations (cont.) Spanish lenition, fortition and nasal assimilation in Lumasaaba. |
Jensen: ch.4, p.87-91 | |
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Nov 6 Tuesday |
Focus on rules Syllable structure. Core syllable, complex syllables. Velar softening in English. |
Jensen: ch.4 (velar softening) ch. 7 (syllable structure) s |
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Nov 8 Thursday |
Focus on rules Iterative rules Spanish r-sounds. |
Jensen: ch.5, p. 112-121 | (*4) |
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Nov 13 Tuesday |
Focus on rules A case study: Yawelmani. |
Jensen: ch.5, p.121-132 |
(*4) is due
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Nov 15 Thursday |
Focus on rules Rules vs. lists. Rule ordering hypothesis.Rule interactions. |
Jensen: ch.5, p.107-112;132-137 | |
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Nov 20 Tuesday |
Focus on rules Exercises. |
Jensen: ch. 5 (review) | |
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Nov 22 Thursday |
Abstract representation Simplicity, naturalness, degrees of abstractness. |
Jensen: ch.6 | (*5) |
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Nov 27 Tuesday |
Recent advances in phon. theory Post-SPE phonology: autosegmental phonology. |
Jensen: ch.7 |
(*5) is due. |
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Nov 29 Thursday |
Discussion of final exam | ||
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Dec 14 Friday 14:00 - 17:00 |
Final exam | ||