Course description and requirements
This course is open to students who have completed either LING 523[123] (Phonological Theory I) or LING 200[60] (Phonology/Sound Patterns in Language). Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, it is a reading-intensive, seminar-style course in which students will discuss and critique research papers in phonological theory. The topics covered in this course change from year to year.
Course requirements include writing responses to the assigned readings and leading class discussion of several readings. Each student will also complete a term paper.
Reading reactions posting policy
This policy was developed in class on Tu 8/29. If we find it's not working well, we will make changes as needed.
- For each assigned reading, please contribute one main post
to the relevant discussion
forum on Blackboard
- Your main post may be submitted as a response to another relevant post if one already exists
- In addition to your main post, please feel free to contribute responses to other students' posts as well
- Deadline for your main post:
- M 6pm for a Tu discussion
- W 11pm for a Th discussion
Content of the course (Fall 2006)
I. "Small" prosodic categories: Syllable and mora
- The role of syllable weight in stress assignment
- Segmental phonotactics: Arguments for and against a role for prosodic structure
- Syllable and mora (and foot) in prosodic morphology
- Prosodic constituents and faithfulness constraints
II. "Large" prosodic categories: Feet and phrasal categories
Topics will be chosen from among the following, depending on participants' interests:
- Foot structure and stress assignment
- Prosodic evidence for large prosodic categories: Stress, intonation
- Segmental evidence for large prosodic categories
- Prosodic categories and the phonology/syntax interface
This page last revised August 29, 2006.