Introduction to Phonological Analysis (Phonology 1)


Fall 2013, LING 232A/632A, Yale University
Lecturer: Tamás Biró
Online Course Information

Course description

Syllabus

Handouts

Handout 1: August 29.

Handout 2: September 3.

Handout 3: September 10.

Handout 4: September 12.

Handout 5: September 17.

Handout 6: September 19 and 24.

Handout 7: September 26.

Handout 9: October 10.

Hebrew verbal paradigms (October 15).

Handout 10: October 17.

Midterm take-home exam (due on October 31).

Handout 11: October 29.

Handout 12: November 7.

Handout 13: November 14.

Handout 14: November 19.

Handout 15: November 21.

Handout 16: December 3.

Excel sheet for OT tableau: December 5.

Final take-home message.

Final take-home exam.

Readings

(Most of them are password protected.)

David Arnold Odden: Introducing Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Also available on Google Books.
Pages 1 – 17: Chapter 1.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1916): Cours de linguistique générale.
(Translated to English as Course in General Linguistics by Wade Baskin, Philosophical Library: New York, 1959.)
Chapter and Appendix on Phonology.

Michael Kenstowicz (1994).Phonology in Generative Grammar. Chapters 2 and 3, as well as Chapter 5.

From: Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. On phonetic and phonological representations.
Reprocuded in: John A. Goldsmith (ed.). Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings. Blackwell, 1999.

Paul Kiparsky (1982). From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology.
Reprocuded in: John A. Goldsmith (ed.). Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings. Blackwell, 1999.

David Arnold Odden: Introducing Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Also available on Google Books. Pages 301–329: Chapter 10.

McCarthy, John (2002). A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2.

McCarthy, John (2008). Doing Optimality Theory: Applying Theory to Data. Blackwell Publisher. Chapter 1.

Tesar, Bruce (2007). Learnability. In Paul de Lacy (ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, Cambridge University Press, 555–574.

Albright, Adam, and Bruce Hayes (2011). Learning and learnability in phonology.
In Goldsmith, John A., Jason Riggle, and C. L. Alan (eds): The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Wiley.com, Second Edition: 661–690.

Resources

TDS IPA-console

Pronouncing the IPA-chart: try out, for instance, York U. site, or U. of Victoria site (or rather this link).

Bruce Hayes' Pheatures Spreadsheet.

Bruce Hayes' page about typing brackets around features.

Bruce Hayes' page about typing phonetic fonts.