Ling 200 | Schedule

This schedule may be subject to adjustment.

Tuesday

Thursday

[outline] Aug 20
About this course
What is phonology?

[outline] Aug 22 | rq1: represent segments
Ling 101 review: Articulatory phonetics
Describing speech sounds

[outline] Aug 27
Phonology as science
Phonetics review quiz

[outline] Aug 29
Phonological features
Representing segments and classes

Sept 3
WELL-BEING DAY

[outline] Sept 5
Applying/testing a phonological model:
Using features to state segment classes

[outline] Sept 10
Complementary / contrastive distribution
Allophones and environments

[outline] Sept 12 | rq2: represent morphemes
Morphemes and alternations

[outline] Sept 17
Underlying representations
Phonological rules

[outline] Sept 19
Applying the phonological model:
Rules and features

[outline] Sept 24
Generalizing phonological rules
Derivations

[outline] Sept 26
Phonology as science, revisited:
Ethics and research in linguistics

[outline] Oct 1 | rq3: syllable structure
Evidence for syllable structure

[outline] Oct 3
Evidence for syllable structure, cont.
WU #1 due

[outline] Oct 8
Diagnosing syllable structure
Representing syllable structure

[outline] Oct 10
Syllable structure "options"
Building syllable structure

[outline] Oct 15
Applying the model: Building syllables
Syllable-driven epenthesis / deletion

Oct 17
FALL BREAK

[outline] Oct 22
English clusters
Sonority; Glides and syllable structure

Oct 24
Exam review

Oct 29
Midterm exam

[outline] Oct 31 | rq4: phono. processes
Child phonology
Rethinking rules

[outline] Nov 5
Optimality Theory:
Phonology with "goals"

[outline] Nov 7
Ranking arguments, useful losers
Markedness and faithfulness constraints

[outline] Nov 12
Applying the model:
Syllable structure in OT

[outline] Nov 14
Factorial typology
Syllable-structure universals in OT

Nov 19
Complementary distribution in OT
Richness of the Base

Nov 21
Complementary distribution in OT

Nov 26
Segmental distribution: Factorial typology
Child phonology in OT

Nov 28
THANKSGIVING

Dec 3
OT: General discussion
Wrap-up: Why does phonology matter?

** WU #2 due at end of final-exam period: Tu Dec 10, 3pm **

Schedule of topics