Phonology - Winter Semester 2018/2019

MA-Module 04-046-2002 • IGRA 06 • Thursday 17:15-18:45 • H1.5.16

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.

Readings for:

October 25	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.1 The Sounds of Speech	Focus: pp.12-38
November 1	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.2 Phonological Rules and Representations	Focus: 2.1, 2,2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.1
November 8	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.3 Phonological Alternations and Derivations	Focus: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3., 3.4.2
November 15	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.7 Autosegmental Phonology	Focus: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
November 22	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.6 Syllabification	Focus: 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 6.10
November 29	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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