Course readings are listed here in alphabetical order for each part of the course. See the daily syllabus or class handouts for chronological reading assignments.
Part I: Syllable and mora (and foot)
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Blevins, Juliette (1995).
[Excerpts from] Chapter 6, "The syllable in phonological theory."
In John Goldsmith, ed., The Handbook of Phonological Theory.
Oxford: Blackwell, 206-244.
- Section 3, "Syllable-internal structure" (pp 212-216; notes, pp 237-239)
- Section 6, "Problems in syllable theory" (pp 227-234; notes, pp 242-244)
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Campos-Astorkiza, Rebeka (2004).
Faith in moras: A new approach to prosodic faithfulness.
In Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, eds., Proceedings of NELS 34.
Amherst, MA: GLSA.
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Gerfen, Chip (2001).
A critical view of licensing by cue: Codas and obstruents in
Eastern Andalusian Spanish. In Linda Lombardi, ed.,
Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 183-205.
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Gordon, Matthew (2004).
Syllable weight. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds.,
Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 277-312.
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Howe, Darin, and Douglas Pulleyblank (2001).
Patterns and timing of glottalisation. Phonology 18: 45-80.
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Kenstowicz, Michael (1994).
[Excerpts from] Chapter 6, "The syllable and syllabification."
Phonology in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Sections 6.1-6.2, "Motivations for the syllable" and "Syllable structure and syllabification: Basic concepts" (pp 250-256)
- Section 6.10, "Syllable quantity and weight" (pp 291-298)
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Kurisu, Kazutaka, and Nathan Sanders (1999).
Infixal nominal reduplication in Mangarayi. In Adam Ussishkin,
Dylan Herrick, Kazutaka Kurisu, and Nathan Sanders, eds.,
Phonology at Santa Cruz 6. Santa Cruz, CA: LRC.
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McCarthy, John (2003).
[Excerpts from] "Sympathy, cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York gambit."
In Caroline Féry & Ruben van de Vijver, eds.,
The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 23-76.
- Discussion of syllabification and faithfulness (pp 58-63)
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McCarthy, John, and Alan Prince (1986).
[Excerpts from] Prosodic Morphology.
Annotated and published as Technical Report #32,
Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science [1996].
- Section 1, intro (pp 1-10) -- skip section on "foot typology" (pp 7-8); briefly skim section on "mapping principles" (pp 9-10)
- Section 2.1, prefixing reduplication [parts]: "simple syllable" (pp 10-13); Mokilese (pp 16-18)
- Section 2.4, templatic morphology (pp 45-55)
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McCarthy, John, and Alan Prince (1999).
[Excerpts from] Faithfulness and identity in Prosodic Morphology.
In René Kager, Harry van der Hulst, and Wim Zonneveld, eds.,
The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 218-309.
- Introduction (pp 1-2)
- Section 4.3, "Back-copying and templatic morphology" (pp 29-35)
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Steriade, Donca (1999).
[Excerpts from] Phonetics in phonology: The case of laryngeal neutralization.
UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 25-146.
[Originally circulated in 1997.]
- Introduction
- Part I
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Steriade, Donca (2001).
The phonology of perceptibility effects:
The P-map and its consequences for constraint organization. Ms., UCLA.
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Yu, Alan C. L. (2005).
Quantity, stress and reduplication in Washo. Phonology 22: 437-475.
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Zec, Draga (1995).
Sonority constraints on syllable structure. Phonology 12: 85-129.
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Part II: Larger prosodic categories
Stress, foot, and PrWd
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Hyde, Brett (2002).
A restrictive theory of metrical stress.
Phonology 19: 313-359.
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Mellander, Evan (2002).
On rhythmic asymmetries in metrical groupings.
In Line Mikkelsen and Chris Potts, eds.,
WCCFL 21 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 278-291.
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Phrasal categories
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Itô, Junko, & Armin Mester (2006).
Adjunction in prosodic phonology. Slides/handout from FAJL
(Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics) 4, Osaka.
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Jun, Sun-Ah (1998).
The Accentual Phrase in the Korean prosodic hierarchy.
Phonology 15: 189-226.
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Truckenbrodt, Hubert (1999).
On the relation between syntactic phrases and phonological phrases.
Linguistic Inquiry 30: 219-255.
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Wagner, Michael (2002).
The role of prosody in laryngeal neutralization. In
Anikó Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li, Andrew Nevins, Olga Vaysman,
and Michael Wagner, eds.,
Phonological Answers (and their Corresponding Questions).
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42, 373-392.
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