Kie Zuraw

UCLA Linguistics

Ling 200A

Phonological Theory I

Fall 2010

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-10:50 in Humanities A32

See also the CCLE page, by logging in to CCLE
Almost everything here is a PDF file, so you need Adobe Acrobat Reader (or similar software) to view and print.

How to make fancy brackets in MS Word
and here is a Word version that you can copy the examples from

Course information

Kie's office hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:30, in Campbell 3122A

Optional discussion sections: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00, in Public Affairs 1284 (only when there was a problem set due the previous Friday)

Syllabus

Term paper stuff

Basic directions

Directions for bibliographic exercise (due Oct. 19)

Directions for primary-vs-secondary-source exercise (due Nov. 2)

Models for term paper

Sample abstract

Lecture handouts

  1. Introduction and overview (Sept. 23)
  2. SPE rule notation review (Sept. 28)
    for reference: how the giant rule breaks down and applies to the words (Sept. 28)
  3. Extrinsic rule ordering (Sept. 30)
  4. The duplication and conspiracy problems (Oct. 5)
  5. Rule + constraint theories (Oct. 7)
  6. Optimality Theory, part I (Oct. 12)
  7. Optimality Theory, part II (Oct. 14)
  8. Issues in process application (Oct. 19 & 21)
  9. Oct. 21: above handout continued
  10. Issues in process interaction (Oct. 26 & 28)
  11. Oct. 28: above handout continued
  12. Lexical Phonology, part I (Nov. 2)
  13. Lexical Phonology, part II (Nov. 4)
  14. The too-many-solutions problem (Nov. 9)
  15. Austosegmental representations (Nov. 16)
  16. Stress, part I (Nov. 18)
  17. Stress, part II (Nov. 23)
  18. Stress, part III (Nov. 30)
  19. Retrospective and prospective course wrap-up (Dec. 2)

Study questions and study guides for readings

Tips on reading scholarly articles

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 2 (due Sept. 28)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portions of chs. 3 and 9 (due Sept. 30)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portions of chs. 5 and 10; Kisseberth 1970 (due Oct. 5)

Portions of Prince & Smolensky 1993[2004] (due Oct. 12)

Portions of Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 8; Anderson ch. 9; Kaplan 2008 (due Oct. 19)

Anderson ch. 10 (due Oct. 26)

Portions of Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 10; Kiparsky 2000 (due Nov. 2)

Steriade 2000 (due Nov. 9)

Goldsmith 1979 (due Nov. 16)

Hayes 1994 ch. 3 (due Nov. 23)

Problem sets

I'll usually post two versions of each assignment:

  1. the PDF version, which is best for viewing and printing
  2. a MS Word version, with fonts embedded, so that you can (I hope) copy and paste data to your write-up
The main special font that I use is Doulos IPA (see below for link to download these free fonts from SIL). In theory font-embedding should make the special characters available to you even if you don't have the font, but it doesn't always work.

Warm-up problem (not graded)

Malagasy (due Friday, Oct. 1)

Beginning OT: Yokuts, Kalinga, Ladakhi (due Friday, Oct. 15)

Process application: Hakha Lai (due Friday, Oct. 29)

Lexical phonology: Malayalam (due Friday, Nov. 12)

Autosegmentalism: Chaha (due Friday, Nov. 26, but if you prefer to think of it as due Tuesday, Nov. 23 feel free--you'll know everything you need by then)

Stress: Samoan (due Friday, Dec. 3)

Links

NEW: Floris van Vugt's Marpa-OT
Lets you make an OT tableau in a spreadsheet program and then convert it into code you can paste into a LaTeX document.

Feature chart and definitions by Bruce Hayes
includes handy Excel spreadsheet

FeaturePad
free software (Windows only) for learning about and manipulating features

NEW: Floris van Vugt's Pheatures
A modern Java version of FeaturePad, with many improvements

SIL International
Fonts, software, and more. To go straight to free fonts, click here.

The International Phonetic Association (IPA)
Various useful things, including a mention of how to get phonetics fonts for TeX/LaTeX (click on "fonts" in the menu on the left).

Doug Arnold's LaTeX for Linguists pages
How to do various linguistic things in LaTeX: IPA symbols, OT tableaux, autosegmental representations, glossing, trees...

Ethnologue
Basic information on all the world's languages.

Speech Internet dictionary (SIPhTrA)
By John Maidment

Online sounds from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
Includes an IPA chart that you can click on to hear sounds

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