Introduction to current research questions in phonological theory. Topics include introductory phonetics, phonological features, autosegmental phonology, syllable structure and stress.
Lecture:
TuTh 10-12, Room E56-249
| Instructors: | |
| Dr. Hubert Truckenbrodt, visiting professor | (hubertt@mit.edu) |
| Professor Cheryl Zoll | (czoll@mit.edu) |
| Zhiqiang Li (TA) | (zqli@mit.edu) |
| September 7-September 28 | Basic phonetics, phonological features and rules |
| October 3-October 24 | Autosegmental Phonology I |
| October 26-November 16 | Syllables |
| November 21-December 12 | Stress and Metrical Structure |
Requirements
Basic Phonetics, Phonological
Features and Rules
| Topics | Reading | |
| September 7 | Articulatory phonetics: the vocal tract | |
| September 12 | Articulatory phonetics: the larynx | Ladefoged 1993, Chapters 1 and 2 |
| September 14 | Acoustic phonetics | |
| September 19 | Acoustic phonetics | Ladefoged 1993, Chapter 8 |
| September 21 | Features and natural classes | textbook pp.12-26 |
| September 26 | Rules and representations | textbook pp.27-48 |
| September 28 | Rule ordering | textbook pp.57-74 |
| Topics | Reading | |
| October 3 | Motivations | textbook pp. 310-338 |
| October 5 | Licit representations and the OCP | |
| October 12 | Feature Geometry | McCarthy 1988 |
| October 17 | Underspecification I | textbook 506-521 |
| October 19 | Locality | textbook 346-359 |
| October 24 | Underspecification II |
| Topics | Reading | |
| October 26 | The skeleton and geminates | |
| October 31 | Syllable structure and stray erasure | textbook pp.250-269 |
| November 2 | Syllable structure and epenthesis | |
| November 7 | Sonority, the Coda Condition | Ito 1989 |
| November 9 | Syllables and Optimality Theory | |
| November 14 | ... continued | Kager 1999, Chapter 3 |
| November 16 | ... continued |
| Topic | Reading | |
| November 21 | Rhythmic Structure | textbook pp. 548-577 |
| November 28 | Directionality | Kager 1999: Ch. 4, p. 161-176 |
| November 30 | Foot Type I | textbook pp. 587-592 |
| December 5 | Foot type II | |
| December 7 | Edge effects | Rosenthall & van der Hulst 1999 |
| December 12 | Stress, OT and learnability issues | Tesar 1997 |
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Ito, J. (1989). A prosodic theory of epenthesis. NLLT 7: 217-259.
Kager, R. (1999). Optimality Theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kenstowicz, M. (1994). Phonology in generative grammar. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell.
Kenstowicz, M. and M. Kidda (1987). The Obligatory Contour Principle and Tangale Phonology. Current Approaches to African Linguistics (vol. 4). D. Odden. Dordrecht, Foris: 223-238.
Ladefoged, P. (1993). A Course in Phonetics. Orlando, Florida, Harcourt Brace & Company.
McCarthy, J. (1988). "Feature geometry and dependency: a review." Phonetica 43: 84-108.
Prince, A. (1990). Quantitative consequences of rhythmic organization. Papers from the Twenty-Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 2: The Parasession on the syllable in phonetics and phonology. M. Ziolkowski. Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society: 355-398.
Pulleyblank, D. (1988). "Vocalic underspecification in Yoruba." Linguistic Inquiry 19(2): 233-270.
Rosenthall, S. and H. v. d. Hulst (1999). "Weight-By-Position by Position." NLLT 17(3): 499-540.
Steriade, D. (1987). Redundant values. Papers from the Twenty-Third Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 2: 339-362.
Tesar, B. (1997). "An Iterative Strategy
for Learning Metrical Stress in Optimality Theory." ROA-177-0297.