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Prerequisites:
Instructor
Otelemate Harry
Room
Room 49 (New Arts Block)
(Phone: ext. 3215, Email: otele@yahoo.com
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Syllabus:
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1 |
(Jan 20) |
Course
administration,
(Jan 20) Review of basic concepts of articulatory
phonetics, The IPA
Phonetics in phonology
Introduction to basic concepts in generative phonology
Readings:
Roca [1] (Chap 1)
Ladefoged (Chaps 1 & 2)
Goldsmith [2] (Chap 1)
Katamba (Chap, 2, & 4)
Shane (pp.3-7)
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| Week 2-3 |
(Jan 27, Feb 3) |
Phonological
processes, distinctive features and natural classes
Phonological rules and derivations
Readings:
Roca [1] (Chap 2, 4)
Katamba (5, 6)
Shane (pp. 24-34, 62-72)
Kenstowicz (Chap 3)
Devonish & Harry
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| Weeks 4, 5 &
6 |
(Feb 10, 17, 24) |
Autosegmental
(AP) representations in phonology,
Representations of tone, vowel harmony and other
processes in AP
Readings:
Roca [1] (Chap 4: 99-111, 8: 205-209
& 226-229, 14: 393 - 406)
Goldsmith [1] (Chap 1)
Goldsmith [2] (Chap 14)
Katamba (Chap 10)
Harry (Chap 2)
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| Weeks 7, 8 &
9 |
(Mar 3, 10, 17) |
Syllable
structure
Prominence, stress, syllable weight and metrical
phonology
Readings:
Roca [1] (Chaps 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, 14: 382-393)
Hyman (Introduction, Chaps 1 & 2)
Goldsmith [1] (Chap 3, 4)
Devonish (Chap 1)
Katamba (Chap 9, 11)
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| Draft
project report for discussion (Week 9, March 18) |
| Weeks 10 |
(March 24) |
Optimality
theory in phonological analysis
Readings:
Dekhers, J., et al. (pp. 1-9)
Roca [1] (Chap 10)
Archangeli (Chaps 1 & 2)
Meade [2] (Chap 2, pp. 15-16), Meade [1]
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| Week 11: |
(March 27 – April 2) |
| Mid-Semester
Break |
| Deadline
for submission of Project report (April 4) |
| Week 12 |
(April 7) |
Optimality
theory in phonology
Readings:
Roca [1] (Chap 10)
McCarthy (Chap 11, 16)
Meade [2] (pp. 181-205)
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| Week 13: |
(April 14) |
Revision
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