| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | M 3:45-5:15pm, T 1:15-2:45pm, by appointment | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarth... | |
| Lecture Time: | TTh 11:20am-12:35pm | |
| Classroom: | Lang Center 112 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling045 | |
| Course moodle site: | F16 - LING045.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (+quiz) (by class) | due (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 Aug | Introductions, syllabus What/why are Phonetics and Phonology | |||
| 1 Sep | Acoustic phonetics | recordings: "prejudice", "half an hour", "considertion", "departure", "Elizabeth" waveforms [ pdf ] | |||
| 2 | 6 Sep | Acoustic phonetics | HW1 | ||
| 8 Sep | Vocal tract anatomy | articulatory videos [ x-ray | MRI | MRI Finnish | MRI song | ultrasound ] | |||
| 3 | 13 Sep | Consonant and vowel categorisation | |||
| 15 Sep | English consonant and vowel transcription | ||||
| 4 | 20 Sep | Transcription | |||
| 22 Sep | The entire IPA chart(s) "Exotic" consonants | ||||
| 5 | 27 Sep | Vowel acoustics | Reetz & Jongman - Ch. 11.4-11.4.1, Course packet 2.4 [ course packet, §II | quiz ] | ||
| 29 Sep | Consonant acoustics | Course packet 2.5 (all), 2.6 (just pp. 35-37) [ quiz ] | |||
| 6 | 4 Oct | Airstream mechanisms Review | |||
| 6 Oct | midterm! | ||||
| 11 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 13 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 7 | 18 Oct | Phonotactics | |||
| 20 Oct | Sonority | (Hayes - Ch. 4.4) | |||
| 8 | 25 Oct | Phonological analysis | |||
| 27 Oct | Phonological distribution | Hayes - Ch. 2.7-2.10, (Hayes - Ch. 3) | |||
| 9 | 1 Nov | Features, natural classes | Course packet - 3.3-3.10, Hayes - Ch. 4.9 [ course packet §III | quiz ] | ||
| 3 Nov | Phonological alternation Morphophonemic analysis Rule ordering | ||||
| 10 | 8 Nov | Rule ordering typology, opacity | |||
| 10 Nov | Autosegmental phonology tone, vowel harmony, Semitic morphology | Kenstowicz - sections 7-7.1, 7.4, 7.8, 8-8.1 [ text | quiz ] | |||
| 11 | 15 Nov | Conspiracies and constraints Intro to Optimality Theory | [ handout ] |
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| 17 Nov | Optimality Theory | [ blank handout | filled handout ] | |||
| 12 | 22 Nov | Metrical phonology | [ handout | filled handout ] |
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| 24 Nov | Thanksgiving! | ||||
| 13 | 29 Nov | presentations | |||
| 1 Dec | presentations | ||||
| 14 | 6 Dec | Phonology of signed languages | |||
| 10 Dec | No class! | ||||
| 15 Dec | (9:00am - 12:00pm) Final exam! |
