| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | T 14:00-15:30, W 13:15-14:45 | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | M 7:00pm-9:45pm | |
| Classroom: | Pearson 005 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling085 | |
| Course moodle site: | S18 - LING085.01 | |
| week | date | topic | due (by class) | readings | additional materials / readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 Jan | Course outline Working in OT | McCarthy - Doing Optimality Theory (Ch. 1, pp. 41-94) | ||
| 2 | 29 Jan | Working in OT | Pater (1999) - Austronesian Nasal Substitution and other NC effects Bromberger & Halle (1989) - Why Phonology is Different | Reiss (2002) - The OCP and NoBanana | |
| 3 | 05 Feb | Prosodic structure, stress, alignment, metrical phonology | McCarthy & Prince (1993) - Generalized alignment McCarthy & Prince (1994) - The Emergence of the Unmarked Baković (1998) - Unbounded stress and factorial typology Alderete (1999) - Head Dependence in Stress-Epenthesis Interaction | ||
| 4 | 12 Feb | Prosodic structure, stress, alignment, metrical phonology | McCarthy (2003) - OT constraints are categorical Elenbaas & Kager (1999) - Ternary Rhythm and the *Lapse constraint Martínez-Paricio (2012) - Superfeet as recursion | Hyman (2006) - Word-Prosodic Typology Hyman (2007) - Tone: Is it Different? | |
| 5 | 19 Feb | Opacity & Stratal OT | Baković (2011) - Opacity and ordering Kiparsky (2000) - Opacity and Cyclicity | McCarthy (1999) - Sympathy and phonological opacity Steriade (1999) - Paradigm Uniformity and the Phonetics-Phonology Boundary Kiparsky (1985) - Some Consequences of Lexical Phonology | |
| 6 | 26 Feb | Reduplication | McCarthy & Prince (1999) - Faithfulness and identity in prosodic morphology (selections) McCarthy & Prince (1995) - Faithfulness and reduplicative identity Kiparsky (2007) - Reduplication in Stratal OT | Yu (1999) - Dissimilation in Reduplication: The case of emphatic reduplication in Turkish Wedel (1999) - Turkish emphatic reduplication | |
| 7 | 05 Mar | Harmony | Archangeli & Pulleyblank (2002) - Kinande vowel harmony: domains, grounded conditions, and one-sided alignment Harvey & Baker (2005) - Vowel harmony, directionality and morpheme structure constraints in Warlpiri Rose Walker (2004) - A typology of consonant agreement as correspondence Kaun (2004) - The typology of rounding harmony | ||
| 12 Mar | Spring break! | ||||
| 8 | 19 Mar | Sonority | Baertsch & Davis (2003) - The Split Margin Approach to Syllable Structure Davis & Baertsch (2011) - On the relationship between codas and onset clusters Baertsch & Davis (2009) - Strength relations between consonants: a syllable-based OT approach | Clements (1990) - The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification Baertsch & Davis (2008) - Decomposing the Syllable Contact Asymmetry in Korean Gouskova (2004) - Relational hierarchies in Optimality Theory: the case of syllable contact | |
| 9 | 26 Mar | Harmonic Serialism | McCarthy (2016) - The theory and practice of Harmonic Serialism McCarthy (2011) - Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory | McCarthy (2010) - An introduction to Harmonic Serialism McCarthy (2009) - Harmony in harmonic serialism | |
| 10 | 02 Apr | Groundedness | Proposal for final paper (05 April) | Anderson (1981) - Why Phonology Isn't "Natural", OR the following:Buckley (2000) - On the Naturalness of Unnatural Rules andHayes (1999) - Phonetically Driven Phonology: The Role of Optimality Theory and Inductive Grounding | Bermúdez-Otero (2005) - Phonological change in Optimality Theory Smolensky (1996) - The initial State and ‘Richness of the Base’ in Optimality TheoryTesar & Smolensky (1996) - Learnability in Optimality Theory |
| 11 | 09 Apr | Optionality and variation | Hayes, Zuraw, Siptár, Londe (2009) - Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony AND eitherHammond (2004) - Gradience, Phonotactics, and the Lexicon in English Phonology orAnttila Cho (1998) - Variation and change in Optimality Theory | Hayes & Londe (2005) - Stochastic Phonological Knowledge: The Case of Hungarian Vowel Harmony Becker, Ketrez, Nevins (2008) - The Surfeit of the Stimulus: Analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish devoicing neutralization | |
| 12 | 16 Apr | Articulatory phonology | Browman & Goldstein (1992) - Articulatory Phonology: An Overview Gafos (2002) - A Grammar of Gestural Coordination | Gafos & Benus (2006) - Dynamics of Phonological Cognition Saltzman (1995) - Dynamics and Coordinate Systems in Skilled Sensorimotor Activity Browman & Goldstein (1991) - Gestural Structures: Distinctiveness, Phonological Processes, and Historical Change Parrell (2011) - The role of gestural phrasing in Western Andalusian Spanish aspiration Goldstein (2011) - Back to the past tense in English | |
| 13 | 23 Apr | Two-level phonology | Antworth (1991) – Introduction to Two-Level Phonology Karttunen Beesley (2001) - A Short History of Two-Level Morphology | Koskenniemi (1983) - Two-Level Morphology: A General Computational Model for Word-Form Recognition and Production Koskenniemi (1984) - A general computational model for word-form recognition and production Kiraz (1994) - Multi-tape two-level morphology: A Case Study in Semitic Non-linear Morphology | |
| 14 | 30 Apr | Sub-regular phonology | Heinz (2009) - On the role of locality in learning stress patterns Heinz (2010) - Learning Long-Distance Phonotactics File | Jardine (2015) - Computationally, tone is different | |
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| 17 May |