Bruce Hayes
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Fall 2009
Syllabus in PDF format [If your computer doesn't have the the free Adobe PDF reader, download it here.]
For information only; to be revised before class starts.
Directory
The textbook is Hayes, Introductory Phonology. Available in the UCLA bookstore.
#1, Zoque, due Thursday 10/1
#2, Squamish/Ewe, due Tues. 10/6. pdf/Word 2003
#3, Contextually limited contrast. pdf/word
#5, Yidiny, pp. 186-189
#6, Lango problem, textbook pp. 137-141 / textbook: p. 156, exercises 1-4.
#7, Productivity and exceptions (mostly Hiroshima Japanese)
#8. Do exercises 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 11.2 in the text.
#9. Do exercises 13.1, 13.2, and 13.3 in the text.
A handout with advice on writing up phonology problems
Class handout: Term paper assignment
Guidance on particular topics
Term paper topics replicating published
results on particular languages
Dialect imitation
Sample Term Papers
"High vowel devoicing in Quebecois"
"Syncope in Namklaw"
Class handout: How to write up your term paper
Phonetic Fonts
Visit this page for information about phonetic fonts you can use for your homeworks and term papers.
Advice On Writing Up Phonology Problems
Brackets
Put pretty feature matrices into your Word documents, which look like this:
by visiting the Brackets page.
I. Excel spreadsheet with segments and their feature values. These
are the features used in FeaturePad. Use Ctr a, Data,
Sort to sort on a particular feature or features.
II. Handout listing all the features, their phonetic definitions,
and lists of sounds having particular feature values. [currently not
available; ask next time I teach the course]
III. Feature practice exercise:
20 rules for you to formalize in features, using Feature Pad.
PDF format
Feature Pad is a program that lets you learn features through active practice. It never tells you the answer to a question, but it always checks your answer for accuracy, and it often points out problems with your answer that need to be fixed. Click here to visit the FeaturePad page.
PhonologyPad is a program that lets you do classical phonology problems (with paradigms, underlying forms, and ordered rules). It never tells you the answer to a problem, but it always checks your answer for accuracy, and it often points out problems with your answer that need to be fixed. Click here to visit the PhonologyPad page.
This tiny utility program (sorry, Windows only) takes each line of a text file and appends a string-reversed copy, as in: Bruce > Bruce [tab] ecurB. Useful for environment-hunting when you have your data in a spreadsheet. Click here to download.
English pronouncing dictionary
This is the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing dictionary, heavily edited. I included only words that have a CELEX frequency of at least one, fixed a great number of transcription errors, and annotated which words are compounds, are unassimilated borrowings, or are forms with productive affixes. I use this in my own research on English and find it very useful when looking for example words.
Download (tab-delimited text)
Last updated September 21, 2009