Advanced Phonology Seminar
高級音韻學專題討論
Spring 2008 Wednesday 9:10-12:00 文學院413
UPDATED 2008/02/22
Me:
James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
Web: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Wednesday 3-5 pm, or by appointment
Goals:
This course is for students with some prior experience in phonological theory (but otherwise it's not really "advanced"). Phonological theory is going through a revolution, as traditional hypotheses are challenged with an ever-growing range of data sources and traditional formalisms are supplemented with new types of models. In this class we will discuss some of the most exciting recent phonological research, on a wide variety of languages, chosen together by both the teacher and students.
Grading:
10% Class participation
40% Leading discussion
10% Presentations (6/11)
40% Term paper (due 6/20, Friday)
What the class is like:
This class is a discussion class. All we will do is read papers (real ones, not from a textbook) and discuss them together. So class participation means you discuss: you read, think, talk, and respond to others' ideas.
Every week somebody will lead the discussion on the week's readings, using a handout with questions to inspire us to discuss together. The questions should be organized in a logical way to make sure we address the most important issues in the paper, situating them in the larger phonological literature, but your questions should also allow us to clarify smaller points in the paper that may be confusing. You are encouraged to ask questions that even you don't know how to answer, but you are the one responsible to bring the focus back to the big issues if we get lost. You do NOT have to talk more than everybody else (in fact, the more you inspire other people to say interesting things, the better).
By the middle of the semester, you should choose a topic of your own to write about. The only restriction is that it has to connect with the theoretical issues discussed in this class and be empirically testable. After you choose your topic, the discussions will then turn to focus on papers that YOU choose to help you with YOUR project.
On the last day of class (6/11), you'll give a conference-style presentation about your research. The paper is due a bit more than a week later (Friday, 6/20) in my mailbox by 5 pm. The paper should be about 20 pages, in English, with formatting like the real published papers we read. I'll grade it in the usual way (style, logic, theory).
Rough schedule (there will definitely be changes along the way)
* marks due dates for things relating to your paper
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Week |
Topic/Activity |
Readings |
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2/20 |
Phonology review |
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2/27 |
Introducing the themes: Phonetics, the lexicon, formal models, and weird languages |
Flack (2007) Kawahara (2007) |
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3/5 |
Phonetics vs. phonology in sign languages |
van der Hulst et al. (2006) Mathur et al. (2006) Perlmutter (2006) |
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3/12 |
Phonetic detail in phonology |
Port and Leary (2005) Wedel (2007) |
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3/19 |
Evolutionary phonology I |
Iverson and Salmons (2007) Kiparsky (2006) |
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3/26 |
Evolutionary phonology II |
Zuraw (2007) Moreton (to appear) |
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4/2 |
NO CLASS [spring break] |
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4/9 |
Opacity |
Anttila (2006) McCarthy (2007) |
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4/16 |
Processing models |
Hayes and Wilson (to appear) Mailhot and Reiss (2007) |
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4/23 |
Phonological competence |
Coetzee (to appear) Myers (2008) |
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*4/30 |
Discuss paper topics |
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5/7 |
Your choice |
Your choice |
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5/14 |
Your choice |
Your choice |
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5/21 |
Your choice |
Your choice |
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5/28 |
Your choice |
Your choice |
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6/4 |
Your choice |
Your choice |
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*6/11 |
Presentations [last class] |
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*6/20 |
TERM PAPER DUE |
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Some of the possible readings
We may not have time to read all of these, and maybe some of them will be changed if I find something more interesting later. The rest of the readings will be suggested by YOU!
Anttila, Arto. 2006. Variation and opacity. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 24:893-944.
Coetzee, Andries W. To appear. Grammaticality and ungrammaticality in phonology. Language 84.
Flack, Kathryn. 2007. Templatic morphology and indexed markedness constraints. Linguistic Inquiry 38 (4):749-758.
Goldstein, Louis, D. H. Whalen, and Catherine T. Best (eds.) Laboratory phonology 8 [selections]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hayes, Bruce and Colin Wilson. To appear. A maximum entropy model of phonotactics and phonotactic learning. Linguistic Inquiry.
Iverson, Gregory K. and Joseph C. Salmons. 2007. Domains and directionality in the evolution of German final fortition. Phonology 24: 121-145.
Kawahara, Shigeto. 2007. Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16:113-144.
Kiparsky, Paul. 2006. Amphichronic linguistics vs. Evolutionary Phonology. Theoretical Linguistics 32:217-236.
Mailhot, Frédéric and Charles Reiss. 2007. Computing long-distance dependencies in vowel harmony. Biolinguistics 1: 28-48.
Mathur, Gaurav, and Christian Rathmann. 2006. Variation in verbal agreement forms across four sign languages. In Goldstein et al., pp. 287-314.
McCarthy, John J. 2007. Hidden generalizations (pp. 7-63). London: Equinox.
Moreton, Elliott. To appear. Analytic bias and phonological typology. Phonology.
Myers, James. 2008 ms. Automated collection and analysis of phonological data. Paper presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2008, Tübingen, Germany.
Pater, Joe. To appear. Gradual Learning and convergence. Linguistic Inquiry.
Perlmutter, David M. 2006. Some current claims about sign language phonetics, phonology, and experimental results. In Goldstein et al., pp. 315-338.
Port, Robert F. and Adam P. Leary. 2005. Against formal phonology. Language 81:927-964.
van der Hulst, Harry, and Els van der Kooij. 2006. Phonetic implementation and phonetic pre-specification in sign language phonology. In Goldstein et al., pp. 265-286.
Wedel, Andrew B. 2007. Feedback and regularity in the lexicon. Phonology 24:147-185.
Zuraw, Kie. 2007. The role of phonetic knowledge in phonological patterning: Corpus and survey evidence from Tagalog infixation. Language 83 (2):277-316.