Phonology - Winter Semester 2022/2023

MA-Module 04-046-2002 • IGRA 06 • Thursday 9:15-10:45 • NSG, S 213

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 20	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.1 The Sounds of Speech	Focus: pp.12-38
October 27	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.2 Phonological Rules and Representations	Focus: 2.1, 2,2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.1
November 3	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.3 Phonological Alternations and Derivations	Focus: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3., 3.4.2
November 10	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.7 Autosegmental Phonology	Focus: 7.1
November 17	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.7 Autosegmental Phonology	Focus: 7.2, 7.3
November 24	Kenstowicz (1994): ch.6 Syllabification	Focus: 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 6.10
December 8	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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