Phonology - Winter Semester 2020/2021

MA-Module 04-046-2002 • IGRA 06 • Thursday 17:15-18:45

The minor goal of this course is to become familiar with the most important theoretical tools to approach the phonology of Natural languages: Distinctive Features, autosegmental and prosodic representations, ordered rules, the cycle, and violable constraints. Its major goal is to learn applying all these tools rigorously and creatively to real data from natural languages.

Organization

The first sessions of the course will be exclusively online via Zoom
I will send the access data to everyone registered at the Moodle site of the course
As soon/if epidemology + technology allow, there will also be the possibility to participate in person

Readings for:

November 5	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.1 The Sounds of Speech	Focus: pp.12-38
November 12	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.2 Phonological Rules and Representations	Focus: 2.1, 2,2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.1
November 19	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.3 Phonological Alternations and Derivations	Focus: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3., 3.4.2
November 26	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.7 Autosegmental Phonology	Focus: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
December 3	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.6 Syllabification	Focus: 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 6.10
December 10	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.10 Stress	Focus: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6.1, 10.7, 10.9

Literature

Kenstowicz, M. (1994) Phonology in Generative Grammar. Cambridge MA: Blackwell.
Kager, R. (1999) Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press.

Contact

Jochen Trommer
Institut für Linguistik
Universität Leipzig

jtrommer [æt] uni-leipzig.de

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