2. Syllabus

Week 1: Overview, current issues

Sept. 6 – Me

Sept. 8 – You

Weeks 2-3: Optimal Interleaving Theory

Wolf, Matthew (2008). Optimal Interleaving: Serial Phonology-Morphology Interaction in a Constraint-Based Model. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sept. 13 Chapters 2-3: Allomorph selection (JP)

Sept. 15 Chap. 2-3 continued (JP)

Sept. 20 Chap 2-3 continued; introduction to NDEB (JP)

Sept. 22 Brian and Robert presenting:

Wolf Chapter 4: Non-derived environment blocking

Wolf, Matthew (to appear). Cyclicity and non-cyclicity in Maltese: Local ordering of phonology and morphology in OT-CC. In HG/HS volume.

Week 4: English cyclic stress, indexed constraints/co-phonologies

Sept. 27 Pater (2000), Kiparsky (2007) (JP)

Sept. 29 Short presentation day – papers on the above listed topics (BM, TS, AN, YF, CMC, PP, KM).

Weeks 5 & 6: Opacity in stratal OT/OT-CC

Oct. 4 English stress handout cont’d, stratal OT and cyclicity

Reading: Bermudez-Otero on Canadian Raising

Oct. 6 Readings: McCarthy overview on derivations, OT-CC analysis of Bedouin Arabic

AN & PP

Oct. 11 (No class – Monday schedule)

Oct. 13 Short presentation day – papers on the above listed topics (ME, RS, BS, BM, TS, AN, YF)

Week 7: Paradigm uniformity

Oct. 20 McCarthy (2005). (TS, JP)
Bobaljik, Jonathan. (2006) Paradigms, Optimal and Otherwise: A case for Skepticism. In Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Ira Nevins, eds. Inflectional Identity. Oxford University Press, 29-54. (JP)

Oct. 22 Kenstowicz, Michael. (2005). Paradigm Uniformity and Contrast. In Downing, Hall and Rafelsiesen (eds.), pp. 145-169. (ME)

Rebrus, Péter and Miklós Törkenczy. (2005). Uniformity and Contrast in the Hungarian Verbal Paradigm. In Downing, Hall and Rafelsiesen (eds.), pp. 263-295.

Week 8: More cyclicity, lexically conditioned phonology

Oct. 27 Brame 1974, Chung 1983, Bobaljik 1998, Kiparsky 2011

Oct. 29 Zuraw (2010) on Tagalog nasal substitution (CMC)

Ernestus and Baayen (2003) on Dutch past tense (KM)

Week 9: Connectionism and the backlash

Nov. 1 Class cancelled

Nov. 3 Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) (JP)

Week 10: More on the English past tense debate

Nov. 8 Pinker and Prince (1988)

Nov. 10 Albright and Hayes (2003) (JP)

Week 11: More connectionism

Nov. 15 Short presentation day (CMC, ME, PP, RS, KM, BS)