This page will be updated over the course of the semester.
Course information
Background: Phonetics resources
- Basic phonetics review
- A list of phonetics review links to help you study
- IPA chart (modified for LING 200)
- (OPTIONAL:) Information on typing IPA phonetic symbols
Course handouts (updated throughout the semester)
RQ 1: Representing segments and segment classes
- Phonological features: Basic model
- Feature charts (for practice, extension beyond English) | Answer key (via Canvas)
RQ 2: Representing morphemes and accounting for alternations
- Morphology and phonology
- Morpheme alternations
- Formalizing a phonological rule
- [not on midterm] Derivations
- [not on midterm] Determining the distribution of segments in a language
RQ 3: Representing syllables and syllable structure
- Syllables: Argumentation
- Syllable structure: Overview / Describing syllabification options
- Sonority
- Representing glides and high vowels
RQ 4: Modeling phonological processes — Optimality Theory
Tools for further research in phonology
- World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) Online
- PBase
- PHOIBLE
- South American Phonological Inventory Database (SAPhon)