36602 - Phonology -- פונולוגיה
עברית
Prof. Yehuda N. Falk
Office 7812
Office hours: Sundays and Wednesdays 2:45-3:30
Semester B 2011-2 Sundays and Wednesdays 10:30-12:00 in room 2331
1st year BA requirement, Linguistics Department, Generative Linguistics Program
Course Language: Hebrew
Basic concepts in phonology: phonemes and underlying representation,
abstractness, phonological rules, distinctive features, autosegmental representation,
syllable structure, stress systems, markedness and optimality.
Examples will be drawn from a variety of languages.
Course Outline
- Introduction and Review of phonetics
- The Basics of Phonology
- Phonology vs. Phonetics
- Underlying Representation
- Abstractness
- Phonological Rules
- Distinctive Features
- Phonological Properties
- Stricture Features
- Articulator Features
- Autosegmental Phonology
- Structure of the Feature System
- The Skeleton (Timing Tier)
- Syllables
- Stress Systems
- Markedness
- Phoneme Inventories and Markedness
- Optimality Theory
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Course requirements
Homeworks; worth 50% of the grade. Due in class one
week after they are assigned. (If you want to do assignments
on computer and would like help with phonetic symbols, phonological
rules, features, etc., in word-processing, click here.)
Final exam 50%.
Handouts available for downloading in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
Note: If these don't print correctly on
your printer but display properly in Acrobat, try using the "Print
as image" option in Acrobat.
Syllabus (4 March)
Place of Articulation (4 March)
Phonetic Symbols (4 March)
Basic Concepts (11 March)
"Phonemehood" (14 March)
Phonemes of Spanish (18 March)
Underlying Representation (25 March)
Abstractness (28 March)
Announcements
Phonological terminology in English and Hebrew
There will be no class on 21 March. We will make the class up later in the semester.
Homeworks
Assigned 7 March; due 14 March: Phonetic Transcription
Assigned 14 March; due 25 March: Minimal Pairs
Assigned 25 March; due 15 April: Underlying Representation Homework