Many assignments are taken from the required course textbooks:
[PGG] = Kenstowicz, Michael. Phonology in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 9781557864260.
[CIP] = Ladefoged, Peter. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. Thomson, 2005. ISBN: 9781413006889.
| LEC # | TOPICS | ASSIGNMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction, course overview, vowels: Articulatory description and transcription | [CIP], chapter 1: A, B, C, D, I, J |
| 2-3 | Consonants: Articulatory description and transcription; distinctive features | [PGG], 1.1 A, B, C, D,; 1.3 A, B, C; 1.5; 1.8 |
| 4 | Phonological versus phonetic representations | [PGG], 2.1; 2.2; 2.7 |
| 5 | Alternations and derivations I | [PGG] 3.1; 3.2 |
| 6 | Alternations and derivations II | [PGG], 5.1.A (Icelandic) |
| 7 | Constraints | Using Praat (PDF) |
| 8 | Phonetics I: Acoustics of vowels, using Praat | Thai vowels (PDF) |
| 9 | Phonetics II: Acoustics of consonants | English consonants (PDF) |
| 10 | Phonetics III: Suprasegmentals | |
| 11 | Feature geometry | [PGG], 4.2; 4.4 |
| 12 | Course review | |
| 13 | Sociolinguistic variables | |
| 14 | American English dialects | |
| 15 | Tone I: African languages | [PGG], 7.2; 7.3 |
| 16 | Tone II: Asian languages | |
| 17 | Tone III: Intonation and phrasing | Phan Rang (PDF) |
| 18 | Syllables I: Structure and syllabification | Miya (PDF) |
| 19 | Syllables II: Sonority | [PGG], 6.6 |
| 20 | Stress I: Prominence | [PGG], 10.1 |
| 21 | Stress II: Rhythm | [PGG], 10.5 |
| 22 | Stress III: Weight | |
| 23 | Prosodic morphology: Reduplication and truncation | |
| 24 | Loanword phonology | |
| 25 | Review |