Bruce Hayes
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Spring 2007
Syllabus in PDF format [If your computer doesn't have the the free Adobe PDF reader, download it here.]
Directory
The textbook is by me. I will be posting it chapter by chapter, in pdf form. You will need a password to see the text, which will be given out in class.
[If your computer doesn't have the free Adobe PDF reader, download it
here.]
Week 3, Psychological reality of the phoneme in Ilokano/contextually limited contrast in English
Week 5: study for the midterm
Week 6: this can be found on pages 229-231 of Chapter 10 of the text; downloadable above
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Week 10: study for the final
A handout with advice on writing up phonology problems
Some of these handouts are from the previous course offering and are not yet revised.
Class handout: Term paper assignment
Guidance on particular topics
"Replicatory" term paper topics (Word
format/PDF format)
Dialect imitation (Word
format/PDF format)
Sample Term Papers
"High vowel devoicing in Quebecois"
(Word
document/PDF format)
"Syncope in Namklaw" (PDF format)
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.
Last updated March 22, 2007