Tentative Course Schedule: This Is Subject to Change

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa – Spring 2003

Linguistics 651: Advanced Phonological Analysis

Moore 205, TR 1:30 – 2:45

Instructor: Patricia Donegan 396-9354

Office: Moore 576, 956-3224

Office Hours: Mon 12:30 – 2:00, Tu Th 3:00 – 3:30, and by appointment

This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to develop a phonological analysis through hands-on experience with data.

In the first part of the course, we will compare different types of analysis, including generative and non-linear phonology, natural phonology, and optimality theory. We will also consider different types of data, including regular alternations, variation, acquisition, phonological change, and other types of so-called ‘external evidence’.

In the second part of the course, each student will develop an analysis of a phonological problem of his/her choice (with instructor input and approval). This problem may be one of regular alternations, variation, acquisition, etc., with data taken from published language descriptions or from the student’s own observations.

Course texts:

Kager, Rene. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Goldsmith, John A. 1995. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Requirements: Grades will be based on a series of written exercises (50%) and a short paper (50%)`.

Tentative course schedule: This is subject to change. (I will attempt to respond to student interests.)

Week 1

1/14 - 16 Kager Ch 1. Basic concepts of OT.

Week 2

1/21-23Kager Ch 1. Basic concepts: richness of the base, lexicon optimization,

freedom of analysis, ranked constraints. Factorial typology.

Kager Ch. 2. Typology of Changes: Comparison of OT to derivational

theory. Conspiracies.

Problem set 1- Ch 1 due 1/23

Week 3

1/28-30 Kager Ch 2. Nasal substitution & alternative strategies.

Problem set 1I Ch 2 due 1/28

Week 4

2/4-6 Markedness & Underspecification – Steriade 1995, Inkelas 1994.

Discussion: Problem set 1I Ch 2.

Week 5

2/11-13 Kager Ch 3. Syllable structure – onsets and codas.

Problem set 1II Ch 3- due 2/18

Week 6

2/18-20 Kager Ch 3. Syllable structure – epenthesis, alignment.

Discussion: Problem set III

Week 7

2/25-27 Syllable structure – Blevins 1995.

Problem: find a term paper topic.

Week 8

3/4-6 Kager Ch 4. Metrical structure: metrical constraints.

Problem set IV Ch 4 due 3/11

Week 9

3/11-12 Kager Ch 4. Metrical structure: a case study.

Discussion: Problem set IV

Problem set V due 3/18

Week 10

3/18-20Kager Ch 5. Correspondence in reduplication. Reduplicative identity.

Correspondence theory (5.7).

Problem set VI due 4/1.

Week 11

3/25-27 Spring Break

Week 12

4/1-3Kager Ch 6 Output-Output correspondence.

Discussion: Problem set VI

Week 13

4/8-10 Kager Ch 7 Acquisition in OT: learnability.

Problem set VII

Week14

4/15-17Acquisition: Macken 1995, Donegan 1995.

Discussion: Problem set VII

Week 15

4/22-24Acqisition, continued. L1 and L2.

Week 16

4/29-5/1 Phonological change: Kiparsky 1995, Donegan 1993

Week 17

5/6Student presentations.

Week 18 (Exam week)

5/15 Final exam scheduled for Thursday, 9:45 – 11:45a.m.

Readings:

Donegan, Patricia. 1995. The innateness of phonemic perception. WECOL 7 (Proceedings of the 24th Western Conference on Linguistics), ed. by Vida Samiian, pp. 59-69. Fresno, CA: Western Conference on Linguistics.

Donegan, Patricia. 1993. On the phonetic basis of phonological change, in Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives, ed. by Charles Jones, pp. 98-130. London: Longman.

Inkelas, Sharon. 1994. The consequences of optimization for underspecification. Ms., University of California, Berkeley. Pp. 28. <A href=" ROA-40.</A> (Rutgers Optimality Archive 40, <A href=

Kager, Rene. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Macken, Marlys A. 1995. Phonological Acquisition. In The Handbook of Phonological Theory, ed. by John A. Goldsmith , pp. 671-696. Oxford: Blackwell.

Steriade, Donca. 1995. Underspecification and Markedness. In The Handbook of Phonological Theory, ed. by John A. Goldsmith, pp. 114-174. Oxford: Blackwell.

GP – Mohanan on relationship of phonology to morphology

GP – Clements & Hume on features