1. What to expect / how to prepare
- The OT quiz is in class, on paper, closed-book. There is no notes page for this quiz.
- The quiz is designed to check on your technical knowledge for working in the OT framework.
- You are encouraged to review lecture outline slides,
your own notes, OT handouts,
and OT-related prep questions and their feedback.
2. Topics covered
- How to set up an OT tableau (what information to put where)
- Using constraints to assign violations in a tableau
- Onset
- NoCoda
- NoOnsetCluster
- NoCodaCluster
- NoDeletion
- NoEpenthesis
- A new-to-you constraint, when you are given its definition
- Formalizing a phonological goal as a constraint
- What phonological unit is the constraint assessing? (syllable, segment, ...)
- What structure is the constraint looking for, defined in terms of our phonological model?
- Distinguishing markedness and faithfulness contraints by their definitions
- Making valid ranking arguments, when you are given an input and its output
- Finding informative losers
- Finding relevant constraints
- Adding W/L marks to a tableau
- Summarizing constraint rankings with a Hasse diagram
- Choosing a winner, when you are given an input, ranked constraints, and a set of output candidates
- What will not be on the quiz:
- Data sets to analyze
- Essay or discussion questions
- Factorial typology and using it to make predictions about language types