| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | W 13:30-15:00 F 10:30-11:30 & by appointment | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 1:15-2:30 | |
| Classroom: | Science Center 104 | |
| Course website: | https://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling045/ | |
| Course Moodle site: | F24 - LING045.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (+quiz) (by class) | due (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 Sep | Introductions, syllabus What/why are Phonetics and Phonology Oscillogram representations of speech | |||
| 5 Sep | Segmentation: sounds, words | ||||
| 2 | 10 Sep | Categorisation in oscillograms | HW1 | ||
| 12 Sep | Meet in lab! (Pearson 111) Vocal tract anatomy, midsagittal view | ||||
| 3 | 17 Sep | Speech sound categorisation (consonants and vowels) | |||
| 19 Sep | The sounds of English The IPA (for English) | ||||
| 4 | 24 Sep | Phonetic transcription | |||
| 26 Sep | The entire IPA chart(s) "Exotic" consonants | ||||
| 5 | 1 Oct | Vowel acoustics | Reetz & Jongman - Ch. 11.4-11.4.1, Course packet 2.4 [ course packet, §II | quiz ] | ||
| 3 Oct | Consonant acoustics | Course packet 2.5 (all), 2.6 (just pp. 35-37) [ quiz ] | |||
| 6 | 8 Oct | Spectrogram reading | |||
| 10 Oct | Airstream mechanisms | ||||
| 15 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 17 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 7 | 22 Oct | Phonotactics | |||
| 24 Oct | Syllable structure and sonority | (Hayes - Ch. 4.4, Zsiga - Ch. 15.1.3) | |||
| 8 | 29 Oct | Phonological distribution Phonemic analysis | |||
| 31 Oct | Phonological alternations | ||||
| 9 | 5 Nov | Election Day! (no in-person class!) Theories of phonology | |||
| 7 Nov | Distinctive features, natural classes | ||||
| 10 | 12 Nov | Morphophonemic analysis Phonological rules | |||
| 14 Nov | Rule ordering typology, opacity | ||||
| 11 | 19 Nov | Autosegmental phonology: tone, vowel harmony, templatic morphology | |||
| 21 Nov | Conspiracies and constraints Intro to Optimality Theory | ||||
| 12 | 26 Nov | Optimality Theory | |||
| 28 Nov | Thanksgiving / National Day of Mourning | ||||
| 13 | 3 Dec | Metrical phonology | |||
| 5 Dec | TBA (Sociophonetics?) | ||||
| 14 | 10 Dec | TBA (Sign language phonetics and phonology?) | |||
| 18 Dec | (9 a.m.–12 p.m.) Presentations | ||||
| 20 Dec |