| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | TBA & by appointment also available by messaging on Google Chat/Hangouts | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 11:20-12:35 | |
| Meeting modality: | In-person synchronous | |
| Classroom: | Science Center 104 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling045 | |
| Course Moodle site: | F21 - LING045.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (+quiz) (by class) | due (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 Aug | Introductions, syllabus What/why are Phonetics and Phonology Oscillogram representations of speech | |||
| 2 Sep | Segmentation: sounds, words | ||||
| 2 | 7 Sep | Categorisation in oscillograms | HW1 | ||
| 9 Sep | Meet in lab! (Pearson 111) Vocal tract anatomy, midsagittal view | ||||
| 3 | 14 Sep | Speech sound categorisation (consonants and vowels) | |||
| 16 Sep | The sounds of English The IPA (for English) | ||||
| 4 | 21 Sep | Phonetic transcription | |||
| 23 Sep | The entire IPA chart(s) "Exotic" consonants | ||||
| 5 | 28 Sep | Vowel acoustics | Reetz & Jongman - Ch. 11.4-11.4.1, Course packet 2.4 [ course packet, §II | quiz ] | ||
| 30 Sep | Consonant acoustics | Course packet 2.5 (all), 2.6 (just pp. 35-37) [ quiz ] | |||
| 6 | 5 Oct | Spectrogram reading | |||
| 7 Oct | Airstream mechanisms | ||||
| 12 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 14 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 7 | 19 Oct | Phonotactics | HW5 | ||
| 21 Oct | Syllable structure and sonority | (Hayes - Ch. 4.4, Zsiga - Ch. 15.1.3) | |||
| 8 | 26 Oct | Phonological distribution Phonemic analysis | midterm | ||
| 28 Oct | Phonological alternations | ||||
| 9 | 2 Nov | Distinctive features, natural classes | HW6 | ||
| 4 Nov | Morphophonemic analysis Phonological rules | ||||
| 10 | 9 Nov | Rule ordering typology, opacity | HW7 | ||
| 11 Nov | Autosegmental phonology: tone, vowel harmony, templatic morphology | ||||
| 11 | 16 Nov | Conspiracies and constraints Intro to Optimality Theory | HW8 | ||
| 18 Nov | Optimality Theory | ||||
| 12 | 23 Nov | Metrical phonology | |||
| 25 Nov | Thanksgiving / National Day of Mourning | ||||
| 13 | 30 Nov | TBA (Computational phonology?) | HW9 | ||
| 2 Dec | TBA (Sociophonetics?) | ||||
| 14 | 7 Dec | TBA (Sign language phonetics and phonology?) | |||
| TBA | Presentations | presentations | |||
| TBA | final exam |