| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | M 13:30-15:00 & by appointment message me on Google Chat/Hangouts for Zoom link | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 11:45-13:00 | |
| Meeting modality: | Online synchronous | |
| Classroom: | Zoom (see Moodle for meeting URL) | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling045 | |
| Course Moodle site: | S21 - LING045.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (+quiz) (by class) | due (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Feb | Introductions, syllabus What/why are Phonetics and Phonology Oscillogram representations of speech | |||
| 2 | 16 Feb | Segmentation: sounds, words | |||
| 18 Feb | Categorisation in oscillograms | HW1 | |||
| 3 | 23 Feb | Vocal tract anatomy, midsagittal view | |||
| 25 Feb | Speech sound categorisation (consonants and vowels) | ||||
| 4 | 2 Mar | The sounds of English The IPA (for English) | |||
| 4 Mar | Phonetic transcription | ||||
| 5 | 9 Mar | The entire IPA chart(s) "Exotic" consonants | |||
| 11 Mar | Vowel acoustics | Reetz & Jongman - Ch. 11.4-11.4.1, Course packet 2.4 [ course packet, §II | quiz ] | |||
| 6 | 16 Mar | Consonant acoustics | Course packet 2.5 (all), 2.6 (just pp. 35-37) [ quiz ] | ||
| 18 Mar | Spectrogram reading | ||||
| 7 | 23 Mar | Airstream mechanisms | |||
| 25 Mar | Spring break! | ||||
| 8 | 30 Mar | Phonotactics | HW5 | ||
| 1 Apr | Syllable structure and sonority | (Hayes - Ch. 4.4, Zsiga - Ch. 15.1.3) | |||
| 9 | 6 Apr | Phonological distribution Phonemic analysis | midterm | ||
| 8 Apr | Phonological alternations | ||||
| 10 | 13 Apr | Distinctive features, natural classes | HW6 | ||
| 15 Apr | Morphophonemic analysis Phonological rules | ||||
| 11 | 20 Apr | Rule ordering typology, opacity | HW7 | ||
| 22 Apr | Autosegmental phonology: tone, vowel harmony, templatic morphology | ||||
| 12 | 27 Apr | Conspiracies and constraints Intro to Optimality Theory | HW8 | ||
| 29 Apr | Optimality Theory | ||||
| 13 | 4 May | Guest lecture: sign language phonetics and phonology | |||
| 6 May | Metrical phonology | HW9 | |||
| 14 | 14 May | (9 a.m.–12 p.m. UTC-4) Presentations | presentations | ||
| TBA | final exam |