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Calendar

WEEK # CLASS 1 CLASS 2
1  

Derivations-1

Kenstowicz. Phonology in Generative Grammar. 1994. Introduction and Chap. 2.
2

Derivations-2

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994. Chap. 3 (pp. 89-114).

 Markedness

Jakobson. Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals. 1968. Pp. 46-89.
3 Markedness

Sommerstein. "On Phonotactically Motivated Rules." 1974.

Markedness

Ohala. "What's Cognitive and What's Not in Sound Change." 1992.

Optimality Theory: Basics

McCarthy. Optimality Theory: A thematic guide. 2002. Pp. 1-42.
4   OT: Markedness & Faithfulness

McCarthy. Optimality Theory. 2002. Pp. 66-120.
5

OT: Violability

McCarthy. Optimality Theory. 2002, pp. 120-138.

Squib topics discussed in class.

 Syllables

Steriade. "The Syllable." 2001.

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994.

Squib topics discussed in class.
6 Syllables

Dell and Elmedlaoui. "Syllabic Consonants in Berber, Some New Evidence." 1985.

Prince and Smolensky. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. 1993.		 Syllables

Hayes. "Compensatory Lengthening in Moraic Phonology." 1989.

Gordon. "A Phonetically-Driven Account of Syllable Weight." 2002.

(Steriade. 1998.)
7   Stress-1

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994, Chap. 10 (pp. 548-66).

Hayes. Metrical Stress Theory. 1995.
8 Stress-2

Kenstowicz. "Cyclic and Noncyclic Constraint Evaluation." 1995.

Hung. "Iambicity, Rhythm, and Weak Parsing." 1994.		 Stress-3

Kenstowicz. "Quality Sensitive Stress." 1997.
9 Reduplication

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994.

(McCarthy, and Prince. Prosodic Morphology. 1986.) 		 Reduplication

Steriade. "Reduplication and Syllable Copying in Sanskrit and Elsewhere." 1988.

McCarthy and Prince. "Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity." 1995.
10 Features-1

McCarthy. "Feature Geometry and Dependency: A Review." 1988.		 Features-2

TBA
NELS
11		   Features-3

TBA
12 Autosegmental Phonology

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994, pp. 310-324.

Kenstowicz, and Kidda. "The Obligatory Contour Principle and Tangale Phonology." 1987.		 AP: Locality I

McCarthy. "Feature Geometry and Dependency: A Review." 1988.
13 AP: Locality II

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994, pp. 346-369.

Pulleyblank. "Vocalic Underspecification in Yoruba." 1988.

Steriade. "Redundant Values." 1987.		  
14 AP: Strict Locality AP: Directionality

Beckman. "Positional Faithfulness." PhD Dissertation. Chap. 1, 1997.

Zoll. "Positional Markedness, Positional Faithfulness and Licensing." 1998.
15 Nonconcatenative Morphology

Kenstowicz. Phonology. 1994, pp. 395-424.

McCarthy. "A Prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology." 1981.		 Nonconcatenative Morphology

Rose. "Rethinking Geminates, Long-Distance Geminates, and the OCP." 2000.

Squibs Due.