Note: I stopped updating this in Week 2. Please consult the Readings and Handouts page for the actual course of events.

 

Week 1 (Sept. 4-6)

Introduction to generative phonology, OT, and stress: analysis and typology of single stress languages

Week 2 (Sept. 11 – 18)

Parameters and constraints in the analysis of alternating stress

Ranking arguments and learning in OT, comparison with parametric theory 

Note: No class September 20th

Week 4 (Sept. 26-28)

Contrast and predictability in stress and basic syllable structure typology: markedness and faithfulness

Week 5, 6 (Oct. 2-11)

Scales, weighted constraints, gradual learning, hidden structure learning, learning and variation

Term paper assignment discussed in class Oct. 4

Note: No class Tuesday Oct. 9

Week 7 (Oct. 16-18)

Alternations: allomorphy and URs

Week 8 (Oct. 23-25)

Opacity and cyclicity

Week 9 (Oct. 30-Nov.1)

Prosodic morphology, correspondence theory

Week 10 (Nov. 6-8)

Phonetic naturalness, features and correspondence theory, “NC effects”

Term paper prospectus due November 6

Week 11 (Nov. 13-15)

Analyses of final devoicing, more phonetic naturalness, positional faithfulness and markedness

Week 12, 13 (Nov. 20-29)

Inductive bias, experimentation and modeling

Note: No class Thursday Nov. 22nd

Week 14 (Dec. 4-6)

Student presentations of paper research

Term papers due December 15