| Week
1. |
Introduction
a. Course administration
b. Concerns of phonology
c. Phonetics review: articulatory phonetics
d. The relevance of phonetics for phonological study
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
1, sections 1.1 & 1.2.2
Jensen: Chap 1, section 1.1
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| Week 2. |
Physical representations
of speech forms
a. visual representation of sounds as wave forms
b. how to identify physical elements of speech sounds
c. phonetic and phonological representations
Required Readings: Odden: Chap 1, sections 1.2.1
& 1.3
Jensen: Chap 1, section 1.2, 1.3.1 |
| Week 3. |
Phonetic Transcriptions
a. Importance of transcriptional symbols
b. Two major schemes of phonetic transcriptions
i. APA (American Phonetic Alphabet)
ii. IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
2, sections 2.1 2.2 & 2.3
Jensen: Chap 1, sections 1.1.1, 1.1.1.3, 1.1.2,
1.1.3 & 1.1.4.
TEST I
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| Week 4. |
Phonemic
analysis
a. Procedures for establishing phonemes of a language
b. Procedures for predicting variants of a phoneme
c. Techniques for motivating phonemic rules from
given language data
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
3
Jensen: Chap 2, sections 2.2, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5 &
2.6
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| Week 5. |
Phonological
analysis
a. Phonological processes
b. Introduction to the formalization of phonological
rules
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
3
Jensen: Chap 2, sections 2.6, 2.7 & 2.8
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| Week 6. |
Underlying Representations
a. Predictable information versus unpredictable
information
b. Factors for establishing underlying representations
c. Phonological rules expressing phonetic forms
from underlying representations.
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
4
Jensen: Chap 2, sections 2.6, 2.7 & 2.8
TEST 2
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| Week 7. |
Feature theory
a. Sounds divisible into a fixed set of universal
features
b. Phonetic basis of features
c. Features and natural classes
d. The use of features in formal phonological rules
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
5
Jensen: Chap 3
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| Week 8.
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Morphophonemics:
interacting phonological processes
a. patterns of phonological alternations
b. Data analysis sessions
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
5
Jensen: Chap 4
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| Week 9. |
Morphophonemics: interacting
phonological rules
a. interaction of interrelated phonological rules
b. rule ordering and its effect on phonological
representations
Required Readings: Odden: Chap 5
Jensen: Chap 5
TEST 3
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| Week 10. |
Doing phonological
analysis
a. Tasks in solving phonological problems
b. A study of models of problem solving
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
7
Jensen: Chap 5
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| Week 11. |
Doing phonological
analysis
More data analysis sessions
Required Readings: Odden: Chap
7
Jensen: Chap 5
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| Week 12. |
In-Course Essay
Due
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| Week 13. |
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