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 |
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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 |