Linguistics 201 (Bruce Hayes)

Linguistics 201: Phonological Theory II

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Assignments
Readings
Optimality Theory Software
Homeworks
Term paper materials
Links related to writing
Links related to phonology

Assignments

Week 1

Assigned Tuesday

Read the Xeroxed readings distributed in class, also obtainable by clicking on the button below. Answer this study guide question, due Thursday 11/6.

Read How to Write Up Phonology Problems, pedagogical handout.

Homework #1: Ilokano Hiatus Resolution [PDF][Word document]. Due Tues. 1/11.

Assigned Thursday

Read second batch of readings. Obtain by clicking on the button below. If you forgot the password send me an email.

Week 2

Assigned Tuesday

Read the extract from John McCarthy and Alan Prince, "Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology" (1997) -- first 29 pages. Then answer the three questions from the top of today's lecture notes. Due Friday 1/21 at 5:00.

Assigned Thursday

Read for Tuesday: William Labov (1972) "The isolation of contextual styles", Chapter 3 of his Sociolinguistic Patterns, University of Pennsylvania Press

Week 3

Assigned Tuesday

For Tuesday, 1/25, do the Japanese problem

For Friday, 1/21, read Arto Anttila (1997) "Deriving variation from grammar: a study of Finnish genitives," In Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and Leo Wetzels (eds.), Variation, Change and Phonological Theory, Amsterdam, John Benjamins. pp. 35-68. Write a one-paragraph summary.

Week 4

Assigned Tuesday

For Thursday, 1/27, read the following article and hand in a less-than-one-page summary: Zuraw, Kie (2010) A model of lexical variation and the grammar with application to Tagalog nasal substitution, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 417–472.

Assigned Thursday

New homework: variation in Hiroshima Japanese. Due Thursday 2/3.

Read: Steriade, Donca (2001) Directional asymmetries in place assimilation. In E. Hume and K. Johnson (eds.) Perception in Phonology, Academic Press. For Tuesday, 2/1, write a less-than-one-page summary.

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Week 5

Assigned Tuesday 2/2/11

(Hiroshima II homework is due Thursday 2/3)

For Friday, 2/4, read the following article and hand in a less-than-one-page summary: Moreton, Elliott (2008). Analytic bias and phonological typology. Phonology 25:83-127.

Assigned Thursday 2/4/11

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Week 6

Assigned Tuesday 2/9/11

For Tuesday 2/15, do the Japanese phonotactics homework. You can download the data corpus here and the spreadsheet with counted n-grams here.

Assigned Thursday 2/10/11

For Thursday 2/17/11 read Hayes, Bruce, Kie Zuraw, Péter Siptár, and Zsuzsa Londe (2009) Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony. Language 85: 822-863, and write an under-one-page summary.

Week 7

Assigned Thursday 2/17/11

For Tuesday 2/22, read Steriade, Donca (1997) "Lexical conservatism and the notion base of affixation" and write an under-one-page summary.

Week 8

Assigned Tuesday 2/22/11

For Tuesday, 3/1/11, do the Lomongo opacity problem.

Assigned Thursday 2/24/11

Read Jason Riggle (2006), Infixing reduplication in Pima and its theoretical consequences (published NLLT) and write a less-than-one-page summary for Thurs. 3/3.

Week 9

Assigned Thursday 3/3/11

Read Scott Myers (1997) OCP effects in Optimality Theory. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 15: 847-892 and write a less-than-one-page summary for Tues. 3/8.

A few of the readings are password protected. You can get the password in class or by asking me.

Library of articles

I will be assigning readings from the following list along with others. I keep these posted long-term as an archive for future use.

Albright, Adam (2008) "Explaining universal tendencies and language particulars in analogical change," in Jeff Good (ed.) Language Universals and Language Change. Oxford University Press.
Boersma, Paul and Bruce Hayes (2001) "Empirical tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm," Linguistic Inquiry 32: 45-86.
Ernestus, Mirjam & R. Harald Baayen (2003). Predicting the unpredictable: Interpreting neutralized segments in Dutch. Language 79, 5-38.
Flemming, Edward (2004) Contrast and Perceptual Distinctiveness" in Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically-Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hayes, Bruce (1989) "The prosodic hiearchy in meter", in Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, eds., Rhythm and Meter. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press. Read only pp. 201-220.
Hayes, Bruce and Donca Steride (2004) Introduction: the phonetic bases of phonological markedness, in Hayes/Kirchner/Steriade (2004) Phonetically Based Phonology, Cambridge University Press.
Potts, Christopher, Joe Pater, Karen Jesney, Rajesh Bhatt, and Michael Becker. 2009. Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology. To appear in Phonology. ROA 984-0708.
Labov, William (1972) "The isolation of contextual styles", Chapter 3 of his Sociolinguistic Patterns, University of Pennsylvania Press
Moreton, Elliott (2008). Analytic bias and phonological typology. Phonology 25:83-127.
Steriade, Donca (1997) "Lexical conservatism and the notion base of affixation"
Extract from Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky (2000) Learnability in Optimality Theory, MIT Press.
Wilson, Colin (2006) Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study Cognitive Science 30: 945–982.