April 5: Introduction and overview; containment vs. correspondence
April 7: Reduplication, part I
1st Assignment: Tagalog and other reduplication
Due April 14.
April 12: Reduplication, part II
April 14: Positional faithfulness (we ended up skipping this one)
April 19: Alderetian antifaithfulness
2nd Assignment: Antifaithfulness in Chaha and Lac Simon Algonquin
Due April 26.
April 21: Hayesian anticorrespondence
April 26: Output-output correspondence
April 28 and May 3: Stratal OT
3rd Assignment: Antifaithfulness in Chaha and Lac Simon Algonquin
Due May 25.
May 5: Similarity-based correspondence
4th Assignment: Hawaiian loan phonology
Due May 12.
May 10: Basehood
May 12 and 17: Markedness and allomorph choice I
5th Assignment: Catalan revisited
Due May 19.
May 17 and 19: Markedness and allomorph choice II
May 19 and 24: Ineffability, a.k.a. absolute ungrammaticality
6th Assignment: Allomorphy in Timugon Murut
Due May 31.
May 26: Exemplars and neighborhoods
May 31 was a holiday
June 2: Exemplars II
June 7: Evolutionary phonology
June 9: Course wrap-up
Extra: Comparative markedness, ultra-brief version
Rutgers Optimality Archive Dowloadable OT papers.
UCLA library e-journals and databases Select "Find Online Materials" > "Search for E-journals..." to get the MLA and LLBA databases.
The Linguist List Mega-list for linguists--jobs, conference calls, discussions, etc.
Linguistic Society of America Linguistics FAQs, graduate programs, job listings, and more.
Summer Institute of Linguistics Fonts, software, and more.
Ethnologue Basic information on all the world's languages.
Speech Internet dictionary (SIPhTrA) By John Maidment