| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | TW 1:30-3:00pm, by appointment | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 9:55am-11:10am | |
| Classroom: | Kohlberg 202 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling045 | |
| Course moodle site: | F17 - LING045.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (+quiz) (by class) | due (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 Sep | Introductions, syllabus What/why are Phonetics and Phonology | |||
| 7 Sep | Acoustic phonetics | recordings: "prejudice", "half an hour", "considertion", "departure", "Elizabeth" | |||
| 2 | 12 Sep | Acoustic phonetics | HW1 | ||
| 14 Sep | Vocal tract anatomy | articulatory videos [ x-ray | MRI | MRI Finnish | MRI song | ultrasound ] | |||
| 3 | 19 Sep | Consonant and vowel categorisation | |||
| 21 Sep | English consonant and vowel transcription | ||||
| 4 | 26 Sep | Transcription | |||
| 28 Sep | The entire IPA chart(s) "Exotic" consonants | Project: Step I (Saturday) | |||
| 5 | 3 Oct | Vowel acoustics | Reetz & Jongman - Ch. 11.4-11.4.1, Course packet 2.4 [ course packet, §II | quiz ] | ||
| 5 Oct | Consonant acoustics | Course packet 2.5 (all), 2.6 (just pp. 35-37) [ quiz ] | HW4 (Saturday) | spectrograms [ wordlist ] | |
| 6 | 10 Oct | Airstream mechanisms Review | |||
| 12 Oct | Midterm exam! | ||||
| 17 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 19 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 7 | 24 Oct | Phonotactics | |||
| 26 Oct | Sonority | (Hayes - Ch. 4.4, Zsiga - Ch. 15.1.3) | Project: Step II (Saturday) | ||
| 8 | 31 Oct | Phonological distribution Phonemic analysis | |||
| 2 Nov | Phonological alternations | ||||
| 9 | 7 Nov | Features, natural classes | |||
| 9 Nov | Phonological rules Morphophonemic analysis | ||||
| 10 | 14 Nov | Rule ordering typology, opacity | |||
| 16 Nov | Autosegmental phonology tone, vowel harmony, templatic morphology | ||||
| 11 | 21 Nov | Conspiracies and constraints Intro to Optimality Theory | |||
| 23 Nov | Thanksgiving! | ||||
| 12 | 28 Nov | Optimality Theory | |||
| 30 Nov | Metrical phonology | ||||
| 13 | 5 Dec | Guest lecture: Denis Tokmashev: Guest lecture: Teleüt phonology and phonetics | [ text | blank phoneme inventory ] |
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| 7 Dec | Guest lecture: Tricia Irwin - Sociophonetics | ||||
| 14 | 12 Dec | Presentations | |||
| 14 Dec | No class! | ||||
| 19 Dec | (12:30p.m. - 3:30p.m.) Review session | ||||
| 20 Dec | (9:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.) Final exam! |
