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Meetings: Tu Th 14:30-15:45, ILC N451
Instructor: Kristine Yu (krisyu@linguist.umass.edu / ILC N422)
Office hours: by appointment
This is the second of two courses in the graduate phonology sequence (603, 606). Following up on 603 and with points of contact with 604, we'll look at phonology and its interfaces with phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics, with a focus on:
Goals: Together with 603, this course is designed to prepare you for (i) engaging with current and past research in phonology and (ii) pursuing your own research in phonology. This semester, we have a special focus on helping you integrate your knowledge and research in phonology with other areas of linguistics.
| Week | Date | Topic | Class | HW to do |
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| 14 | Tu 04/30 | Course wrap-up | ho10, polar coordinates | Sign up for project meeting; take two slots if you want. |
| Week | Date | Topic | Class | HW to do |
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| 13 | Tu 04/23 | Trees and forests | Finish Finnish, smo constituency, learning/typology: 0-reversible languages | |
| Th 04/25 | ||||
| 12 | Tu 04/16 | |||
| Th 04/18 | Syntax-prosody interface | Leland | ||
| 11 | Tu 04/09 | Implementing phonology | ho8 | Work on projects |
| Th 04/11 | ||||
| 10 | Tu 04/02 | Formal language theory | ho7 | Project meetings (book me) |
| Th 04/04 | supplemental handout | Install xfst, see further-reading/fsm/ in Box for readings |
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| 09 | Tu 03/26 | Jonathan + Anissa | ||
| Th 03/28 | Duygu + Alex | Project HW 2 due, book project meetings for next week | ||
| 08 | Tu 03/19 | Bethany + Erika | ||
| Th 03/21 | Maggie + strings and trees | ho7 | PROJ: HW 2 due 3/28 | |
| 07 | Tu 03/05 | AM theory and tonal targets | ho5 | |
| Th 03/07 | Prosodic constituency and variable processes | var | Next project homework due 3/21, prep your class for post-Spring Break | |
| 06 | Tu 02/26 | Intonational phonology intro | ho4 | Project meeting 1 due by end of next week |
| Th 02/28 | More intonational phonology | |||
| 05 | Tu 02/19 | No class: Monday schedule | ||
| Th 02/21 | ||||
| 04 | Tu 02/12 | Autosegmental theory (NO CLASS: inclement weather) | ho3 | Gussenhoven (2004) reading [pdf] Post comments/questions in Box document by 11:59PM (EST) 02/20, including a response to a classmate. |
| Th 02/14 | ||||
| 03 | Tu 02/05 | Tonal phonology | ho2 | Goldsmith reading, [pdf, questions] due 02/12 by class time |
| Th 02/07 | Finish project "homework" by 02/08 | |||
| 02 | Tu 01/29 | Tonal phonetics | ho0 | Hyman reading [pdf, questions], due 02/05 by class time |
| Th 01/31 | ||||
| 01 | Tu 01/22 | Guerilla fieldwork | ho1 | Project Meeting 0 |
| Th 01/24 | Problem Set 1, due 02/05 11:59PM |
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Readings and Exercises
Readings will be assigned approximately weekly, linked from this page. Reading questions will be assigned for each reading and are due before class when the reading is due, for 20% of the grade. Exercises will be assigned approximately weekly in the first part of the course for 25% of the grade. Typically assignments will be released each Thursday and will be due before midnight the following Tuesday.
Class presentation
One class presentation, for 5% of grade.
A term project will count for 50% of the grade. The emphasis will be on preparing a 20 minute talk. There will be staged assignments working up to this: