Kie Zuraw

UCLA Linguistics

Ling 200A

Phonological Theory I

Fall 2013

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:50 in Haines 110

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Almost everything here is a PDF file, so you need Adobe Acrobat Reader (or similar software) to view and print.

• Course information
  
• Term paper stuff
  
• Lecture handouts
  
• Study questions and study guides for readings (includes general tips on reading)
  
• Problems
  
• Links
  

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: Wednesdays 9:00-11:00, in Campbell 3122A

Syllabus

Term paper stuff

Basic directions

Directions for bibliographic exercise (due Oct. 22)

Directions for primary-vs-secondary-source exercise (due Nov. 5)

Models for term paper

Sample abstract

Lecture handouts

1. Class 1: Overview/intro, SPE rule review (Sept. 26 = Thurs. of Week 0)
2. Class 2: SPE expansion conventions (Oct. 1 = Tues. of Week 1)
3. Class 3: Extrinsic rule ordering (Oct. 3 = Thurs. of Week 1)
4. Class 4: The duplication and conspiracy problems (Oct. 8 = Tues. of Week 2)
5. Class 5: Rule+constraint theories (Oct. 10 = Thurs. of Week 2)
6. Class 6: Optimality Theory, part I (Oct. 15 = Tues. of Week 3)
7. Class 7: Optimality Theory, part II (Oct. 17 = Thurs. of Week 3)
8. Class 8: Process application, part I (Oct. 22 = Tues. of Week 4)
9. Class 9: Process application, part II (Oct. 24 = Thurs. of Week 4)
10. Class 10: Process interaction, part I (Oct. 29 = Tues. of Week 5)
11. Class 11: Process interaction, part II (Oct. 31 = Thurs. of Week 5)
12. Class 12: Lexical Phonology, part I (Nov. 5 = Tues. of Week 6)
13. Class 13: Lexical Phonology, part II (Nov. 7 = Thurs. of Week 6)
14. Class 14: A bit more lexical phonology; The too-many-solutions problem (Nov. 12 = Tues. of Week 7)
15. Class 15: Autosegmentalism I (Nov. 14 = Thurs. of Week 7)
16. Class 16: Autosegmentalism II (Nov. 19 = Tues. of Week 8)
17. Class 17: Stress I (Nov. 21 = Thurs. of Week 8)
18. Class 18: Stress II (Nov. 26 = Tues. of Week 9)
19. Nov. 28 was a holiday--no class
20. Class 19: Stress III (Dec. 3 = Tues. of Week 10)
21. Class 20: Retrospective and prospective course wrap-up (Dec. 5 = Thurs. of Week 10)

The end

Reading questions

Tips on reading scholarly articles

• Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 2 (due Oct. 1 in class)
• Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portions of chs. 3 and 9 (due Oct. 3 in class)
• Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portions of chs. 5 and 10; Kisseberth 1970 (due Oct. 8 in class)
• Prince & Smolensky 1993 portions (due Oct. 15 in class)
• Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portion of ch. 8; Anderson ch. 9; portion of Kaplan 2008 (due Oct. 22 in class)
• Portions of Anderson ch. 10 (due Oct. 29 in class)
• Kenstowicz & Kisseberth more portions of ch. 10; Kiparsky 2000 (due Nov. 5 in class)
• Steriade portion (due Nov. 12 in class)
• Goldsmith 1979 portion (due Nov. 19 in class)
• Hayes 1995 portion (due Nov. 26 in class--last one!)

Problem sets

Korean verb paradigms: ordered rules (due Oct. 10)

1. PDF version
2. MS Word version

Malagasy verb paradigms: more ordered rules, plus constraints a bit (due Oct. 17)

1. PDF version
2. MS Word version

Ponapean reduplication: OT (due Oct. 24)

1. PDF version
2. MS Word version

Hakha Lai tone sandhi: process application (due Nov. 1)

1. PDF version
2. MS Word version

Spanish consonant alternations: lexical phonology (due Nov. 15)

1. PDF version
2. MS Word version

Holoholo verb paradigms: autosegmental tone (due Nov. 22)

1. Instructions
2. Data as Excel spreadsheet
3. Data as tab-separated text (open as spreadsheet or make into a table)

Manam: stress (due Dec. 6)

1. PDF version: best for viewing and printing
2. MS Word version: has 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.

Links

General reference

Jason Riggle's phonology cheat sheet
Everything you need to know on one page

Ethnologue
Basic information on all the world's languages.

Speech Internet dictionary (SIPhTrA)
By John Maidment

Features and sounds

Feature chart and definitions by Bruce Hayes
includes handy Excel spreadsheet

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

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

Online sounds from the UCLA Phonetics Lab--indexed by language and by sound type
Includes an IPA chart that you can click on to hear sounds

Word processing

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.

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...

Constraints

Jason Eisner's "Doing OT in a Straijacket"
Includes an inventory of constraints as of 1999, but translated into Eisner's formalism

"How many constraints are there?" by Ashley et al.
An inventory of constraints as of 2008. There's a paper explaining the inventory and an Excel spreadsheet listing the constraints.