Section 1 is Joe on segmental phonology, section 2 is John on LabPhon and intonation, section 3 is Gaja on variation and exceptions.
1 Segmental phonology
1.1 Segmental phonology in OT – examples from the phonology of voicing
Weds. 1/20 Handout: class-1-function-features
Required reading: Pater, Joe. 2004. Austronesian nasal substitution and other NC effects. In John J. McCarthy (ed.),Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader, 271-89. Malden, MA, and Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
For further reading: Myers (1997: ms.) on gaps in the typology of NC effects and phonologization, and for later analysis of nasal substitution, Pater, Joe. 2001. Austronesian nasal substitution revisited. In L. Lombardi, (ed.) Segmental phonology in Optimality Theory: Constraints and Representations. Cambridge University Press. 159-182. There is also a fairly large literature on post-nasal devoicing. This paper on historical change and devoicing has the references, and some interesting discussion. The topic of “phonetically ungrounded” phonology is an interesting one – my take on it, and some references, is in this 2012 paper with Elliott Moreton.
Mon. 1/25 Handouts: 606-class-2-faithfulness, 606-class-2-3-lombardi
Required reading for Weds. 1/27: Lombardi, Linda. 1999. Positional faithfulness and voicing assimilation in Optimality Theory. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 17, 267-302.
For further reading: Steriade, Donca. 2001. Directional asymmetries in place assimilation: a perceptual account. Ms, UCLA.
1.2 Feature geometry and feature classes
Weds. 1/27 Voice assimilation continued, feature geometry intro
Handout: 606-class-3-feature-geometry
Required reading for Mon. 2/1: John J. McCarthy. 1988. Feature geometry and dependency: A review. Phonetica 45 (1988): 84-108.
Mon. 2/1 Feature geometry continued.
For further reading: Odden (1991), Padgett, Jaye. 2002. Feature classes in Phonology. Language 78. 81-110.
Weds. 2/3 Handout: 606-class-4-spreading
McCarthy, John J. 2011. Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory. In John Goldsmith, Elizabeth Hume & Leo Wetzels (eds.), Tones and Features. Berlin and New York: Mouton deGruyter.
Further reading; overview chapter by Rose and Walker on vowel harmony, consonant harmony, and long distance V-C assimilation.
Mon. 2/8 Gaja and John overviews
Brandon on post-nasal devoicing as a sound change
1.3 Vowel harmony in parallel / serial OT /HG
Weds. 2/10 Handout: 606-class-5-serial-hg
Mullin, Kevin. 2011. Strength in Harmony Systems: Trigger and Directional Asymmetries. Ms, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Further reading: Pp. 77-104 of Potts, Pater, Jesney, Bhatt and Becker. 2010. Harmonic Grammar with linear programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology. Phonology 27. 77-117
Carolyn, Michael
1.4 Phonetic grounding and phonological typology
Tues. 2/16 Handout: 606-class-6-moreton
Moreton, Elliott. 2008. Analytic bias and phonological typology. Phonology 25:83-127.
Rong, Alex
Weds. 2/17 Handout: 606-class-7-flemming
Flemming, Edward. 2001 Scalar and categorical phenomena in a unified model of phonetics and phonology. Phonology 18(1).
Jaieun, Chris
Further reading:
Hayes, Bruce, Kie Zuraw, Péter Siptár and Zsuzsa Londe. 2009. Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony. Language 85: 822-863.
Moreton, Elliott and Joe Pater. 2012. Structure and substance in artificial-phonology learning. Part 1: Structure, Part II: Substance. Language and Linguistics Compass 6 (11): 686–701 and 702–718.
Pater, Joe. 2014. Canadian Raising with Language-Specific Weighted Constraints. Language 90/1. 230-240.
2. Laboratory phonology and intonation
Mon. 2/22 Reading for Monday 22 February 2016: Gussenhoven, Carlos. 2002. Phonology of intonation. Glot International, 6.9/10, 271-284.
Supplementary reading: Hayes’s chapter on tone and intonation.
To follow discussion in class and to do the exercises, you will need to be able to run Praat. It runs under Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, so everyone should be able to run it. You can get the most recent version for your operating system at www.praat.org.
I’ve shared the sound files for 22 February 2016 with you via a Dropbox link.
Weds. 2/24 JK 2
Mon. 2/29 Reading for Monday 29 February 2016: Hayes, Bruce and Lahiri, Aditi. 1991. Bengali intonational phonology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 9.1, 47-96.
A duet presented jointly by two of you.
2/29: First exercise is here. It’s due 3/9 by class time.
Mon. 3/7 Readings for Monday 7 March 2016: Grabe, Esther. 1998. Pitch accent realization in English and German. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 129-143;
Grabe, Esther, Post, Brechtje, Nolan Francis, and Farrar, Kimberley. 2000. Pitch accent realization in four varieties of British English. Journal of Phonetics, 28, 161-185.
Solos: One presentation per person.
Weds. 3/9 Readings for Wednesday 9 March 2016: Arvaniti, Amalia, Ladd, D. Robert, and Mennen, Ineke. 2006. Tonal association and tonal alignment: Evidence from Greek polar questions and contrastive statements. Language and Speech, 49.4, 421-450;
Barnes, Jonathan, Veilleux, Nanette, Brugos, Alejna, and Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stephanie. 2012. Tonal center of gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology. Laboratory Phonology, 3, 337-383.
Solos: One presentation per person.
Weds. 3/9 First exercise due by class time.
MON. 3/14 SPRING RECESS
WEDS. 3/16 SPRING RECESS
Mon. 3/21Reading for Monday 21 March 2016: Truckenbrodt, Hubert. 1999. On the relation between syntactic phrases and phonological phrases. Linguistic Inquiry, 30.2, 219-255.
A duet presented jointly by two of you.
Weds. 3/30 JK 8 Second exercise due.
3. Variation and exceptions (Section 3 Syllabus PDF HERE)
Mon. 3/28 Variation Intro Handout
Please read Coetzee & Pater’s (2011) overview chapter on variation:
Coetzee, Andries and Joe Pater. 2011. The place of variation in phonological theory. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan Yu (eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2nd ed.). Blackwell. 401-431.
Also, consider whether any of you would like to take on Anttila’s (1997) paper for your individual presentation for Wednesday (3/30). It’s on the partially-ordered (co-phonology) approach to variation:
Anttila, Arto. 1997. Deriving variation from grammar. In Variation, Change and Phonological Theory. ed. F. Hinskens, R. van Hout and W. L. Wetzels. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Weds. 3/30 Stochastic OT & Gradience Handout
Boersma, Paul and Bruce Hayes. 2001. Empirical Tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm. Linguistic Inquiry 32:45-86.
Mon. 4/4
Gaja sick. Class canceled. 4/19 class added.
Weds. 4/6
Read the following (don’t get too bogged down in the technical details):
Hayes, Bruce and Colin Wilson. 2008. A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning. Linguistic Inquiry 39:379-440.
Mon. 4/11
Inkelas, Sharon, Orgun, Orhan, and Zoll, Cheryl. 1997. The implications of lexical exceptions for the nature of grammar. In Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, ed. Iggy Roca, pp. 393-418. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mascaro, Joan. 1996. External Allomorphy as emergence of the unmarked. In Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods, ed. Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks, pp. 473-83. Salford, Manchester: European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford. [reprinted in McCarthy 2004]
Weds. 4/13
Carolyn presents:
Inkelas, S. and C. Zoll (2007) Is Grammar Dependence Real? A comparison between cophonological and indexed constraint approaches to morphologically conditioned phonology. Linguistics 45:133-171. ROA-587.
Chris presents:
Pater, Joe. 2010. Morpheme-Specific Phonology: Constraint Indexation and Inconsistency Resolution. In Steve Parker, (ed.) Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. 123-154.
MON. 4/18 HOLIDAY
TUE. 4/19 MAKE-UP CLASS
Rong presents:
Zuraw, Kie (2010). A model of lexical variation and the grammar with application to Tagalog nasal substitution. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28(2): 417-472.
Michael presents:
Ernestus, M and R H Baayen. 2003. Predicting the Unpredictable: Interpreting Neutralized Segments in Dutch. Language:5-38.
Jaieun presents:
Albright, A and B Hayes. 2003. Rules Vs. Analogy in English Past Tenses: A Computational / Experimental Study. Cognition 90:119-161.
Weds. 4/20
Brandon presents:
Becker, M., N. Ketrez, and A. Nevins (2011). The surfeit of the stimulus: analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternations. Language 87(1), 84–125.
Mon. 4/25 Term Paper Presentations
Weds. 4/27 Term Paper Presentations