[Graduate Seminar in the Linguistics Department]
Seminar in Phonology (615:525) Fall 2001
This course will examine current issues in Optimality Theory, especially as they relate to the syllable and prosodic morphology. The first part of the course will examine issues of syllable structure whereas the latter part will focus on the mora and the rest of the metrical hierarchy. Topics include sonority constraints on moraic structure, the status of glides, s-clusters, syllable contact, and the representation of geminate consonants. The examination of syllable issues leads naturally into prosodic morphology. The focus in Prosodic Morphology is on morphological processes that are delimited by phonological units such as the syllable, foot, or minimal word.
The languages to be examined include: English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Toba Batak, Barra Gaelic, Berber, Arrernte, Arabic, Georgian, Bella Coola, Polish, French, German, and the Bantu languages.
Seminar in Phonology (615:525) Fall 2001
Thursday
Linguistics 108
Instructor:
Office Hours: Monday 1-2
Office: Scott Hall 339 (932-5603)
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Week1 |
9/6 |
Introduction |
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Week 2 |
9/13 |
motivating the syllable |
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Week 3 |
9/20 |
Syllables in OT |
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Week 4 |
9/27 |
Sonority |
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Week 5 |
10/4 |
Subsyllabic Structure |
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Week 6 |
10/11 |
Phonotactics |
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Week 7 |
10/18 |
Syllable Typology, Alignment |
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Week 8 |
10/25 |
No Class (individual meetings) |
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Week 9 |
11/1 |
Syllabification |
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Week10 |
11/8 |
Odd syllables |
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Week11 |
11/15 |
Mora and Metrical Hierarchy |
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Week12 |
11/22 |
Thanksgiving Recess |
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Week13 |
11/29 |
Mora and Metrical Hierarchy |
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Week14 |
12/6 |
Term paper presentations |
Evaluation:
Article Presentations: 20%
Descriptive Paper (10 pages): 30%
Term Paper (15-20 pages with a one page abstract): 50%
Term papers due on Dec. 19 (Wed.)
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Week
2:
Blevins,
J. (1995) “The
Syllable in Phonological Theory.” In John Goldsmith ed. The Handbook of
Phonological Theory. Blackwell,
Week
3:
Kager,
Rene. (1999) Optimality Theory. Ch. 3 “Syllable structure and economy.” 91-141.
Prince and Smolensky, (1993) Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction
in Generative Grammar.
McCarthy and Prince. (1993). Prosodic Morphology 1: Constraint
Interaction and Satisfaction.
McCarthy and Prince. (1993)
“Generalized Alignment.” In Gert Booij and Jaap van Marle eds. Yearbook
of Morphology 1993.
*McCarthy,
J. (forthcoming) “Sympathy, Cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York Gambit.” In C. Fery and
R. van de Vijver eds. The syllable in Optimality Theory.
Week
4:
Clements, G. N. (1990) “The role of the
sonority cycle in core syllable.” Papers in Laboratory
Phonology 1. 283-333.
Zec,
Draga. (1995) “Sonority constraints on syllable structure.”
Phonology. 12:85-129.
Week
5:
Downing,
L. (1998) “On the prosodic misalignment of onsetless syllables.” NLLT. 16: 1-52.
Breen,
G. and R. Pensalfini (1999) “Arrente: a language with no syllable onsets.” LI.
30: 1-25.
Hargus.
S. (1997) “Explaining similarities between codas and word-initial onset
clusters.” Ms.
University of Washington.
Davis,
S. and S. Shin. (1999) “The syllable contact constraint in Korean: An
optimality-theoretic analysis.”
Journal of
East Asian Linguistics.
Davis,
S and M. Hammond. (1994) “On the status of onglides in English.” Phonology.
12. 159-82.
Crowhurst,
M. (2001) “Coda conditions and um infixation in Toba Batak.” Lingua.
111: 561-590.
Week
6:
Clements,
G. N. and Samuel J. Keyser (1983). CV Phonology: a generative theory of the
syllable.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Steriade,
Donca. “Alternatives to syllable-based accounts of consonantal phonotactics.”
Ms.
Blevins,
J. (forthcoming) “The independent nature
of phonotactic constraints: an alternative to syllable-
based approaches.” In C. Fery and R. van de Vijver
eds. The syllable in Optimality
Theory.
Cambridge
University Press.
Week
7:
Levelt,
C. and van de Viiyer. (forthcoming) “Syllable types in cross-linguistic and
developmental
Grammars.” The Syllable in Optimality Theory.
Tesar,
B. and P. Smolensky (1998) “Learnability in Optimality Theory.” LI. 29:
229-268.
Kenstowicz,
M. (1994) “Syllabification in Chukchee: a constraints-based analysis. Proceedings
of the
Formal
Linguistics Society of the Midwest 4.
Merchant,
Jason. (1996) “Alignment and fricative
assimilation in German.” LI. 27.
709-19.
Jensen,
J. (2000) “Against ambisyllabicity,” Phonology. 17: 187-235.
Week
9:
Clements,
G. N. (1997) “Berber syllabification: derivations or constraints?” In Iggy Roca
ed. Derivations
and constraints in phonology. Clarendon Press. Oxford.
289-330.
Hammond,
M. (1997) “Vowel quantity and syllabification in English.” Language 73.
1 :1-17.
(*Hammond,
M. 1999. The Phonology of English. Oxford University Press.)
Ito,
J. (1989) “A prosodic theory of epenthesis.” NLLT. 7: 217-59.
Week
10:
Cho
and King. (forthcoming) “Semi-syllables and universal syllabification.” In The
syllable in Optimality
Theory.
Kiparsky,
Paul. (forthcoming) “Syllables and moras in Arabic.” The syllable in
Optimality Theory.
Ito,
J. and A. Mester (forthcoming) “On the sources of opacity: coda processes in
German.” The s in OT.
Week
11 & Week 13:
Hayes,
Bruce (1989). “Compensatory Lengthening
in Moraic Phonology” LI 20: 253-306.
Hyman.
Larry (1992) “Moraic mismatches in Bantu.” Phonology. 9:255-265.
Broselow,
Ellen (1995). “Skeletal Positions and Moras.”
In Goldsmith, J. The Handbook
of Phonological
Theory. Blackwell. Oxford. 175-205.
Kager,
R. (1999) Optimality Theory. Ch. 4 “Metrical structure and parallelism.”
142-193.
Rosenthall,
Sam (1997) “The distribution of prevocalic vowels.” NLLT. 15: 139-80.
Davis,
Stuart (forthcoming). “The controversy over geminates and syllable weight.” In The
syllable in
Optimality
Theory.
Broselow,
Ellen, Su-I Chen, and Marie Huffman (1997) “Syllable weight: convergence of
phonology and
phonetics.” Phonology
14: 47-82.