Phonology II
音韻學（二）
Spring 2009 Monday
10:10-13:00 文學院413
編號: 1305565
* * * REVISED 5/28 * * *
Me:
James
Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers@ccu.edu.tw
Web:
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Monday
Goals:
In this class students will go beyond basic phonological theory to
discuss some of the most exciting recent phonological research, involving a
variety of languages, topics, and methods, chosen together by both the teacher
and students, and conduct their own original research.
Grading:
10% Class participation
40% Leading
discussion
10% Presentations (6/8)
40% Term paper (due 6/15)
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 (officially
5/4, but the earlier the better), 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 (6/8),
you'll give a conference-style presentation about your research. The paper is
due a week later (6/15) in my mailbox by
Rough schedule
(there will definitely be changes along the way)
* marks due dates for things relating to your paper
|
Week |
Topic/Activity |
|
|
2/16 |
Phonology
review |
|
|
2/23 |
Feature
spreading and serialism |
McCarthy (2008) |
|
3/2 |
Evolving
phonology |
Boersma & Hamann
(2008), |
|
3/9 |
Compensatory
lengthening and serialism |
Kiparsky (2008), Shaw (2007) |
|
3/16 |
Issues
in formalization |
Zhang (2007), Idsardi (2008) |
|
3/23 |
Using
weighted constraints |
Coetzee & Pater
(2008) |
|
3/30 |
Variable
constraint ranking |
Anttila (2008) |
|
4/6 |
Universal
syllables |
Duanmu (2008) |
|
4/13 |
Language-specific
syllables |
Sandler (2008), Li (2009) |
|
4/20 |
Phonological
units |
Mielke (2005), Chen (2009) |
|
4/27 |
Pattern
strength |
Myers (2009) |
|
*5/4 |
Discuss paper topics |
|
|
5/11 |
Your
choice |
Carreiras et al. (2008); |
|
5/18 |
Your
choice |
Hsieh (2006); |
|
5/25 |
Your
choice |
Weber
& Cutler (2006); |
|
6/1 [start at |
Your
choice |
Yuan et al. (2002), Lin (2004) |
|
*6/8 [start at |
Presentations [last class] |
|
|
*6/15 |
TERM PAPER DUE |
|
Anttila, Arto. 2008.
Gradient phonotactics and the
Complexity Hypothesis. Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory 26 (4): 695-729.
Boersma, Paul, and Silke Hamann. 2008. The evolution of auditory
dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars. Phonology 25:217-270.
Carreiras, Manuel, Eva Gutiérrez-Sigut, Silvia
Baquero, and David Corina. 2008. Lexical processing in Spanish Sign Language (LSE). Journal of Memory and Language 58:
100-122.
Chen, Tsung-Ying. 2009. Some remarks on contour
tone units.
Coetzee, Andries W., and Joe Pater. 2008. Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26 (2): 289-337.
Duanmu, San. 2008. Syllable structure: The limits of variation [chs.
3 & 12]. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur. 2008. Diachronic explanations of sound patterns. Language and Linguistics Compass 2,
859-893.
Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2006. High infidelity: The
non-mapping of Japanese accent onto Taiwanese tone. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52
(Studies in loanword phonology), pp. 1-27.
Idsardi, William J. 2008. Combinatorics for metrical feet. Biolinguistics 2 (2-3): 233-236.
Kawahara, Shigeto,
Hajime Ono, and Kiyoshi Sudo. 2006. Consonant co-occurrence restrictions in Yamato Japanese. Japanese/Korean
Linguistics 14: 27-38.
Kiparsky, Paul. 2008. Compensatory lengthening.
Kirchner, Robert, and Roger K. Moore. 2008. Computing
phonological generalization over real speech exemplars.
Li,
Yingshing. 2009. Investigating Southern Min subsyllabic structure using a maximum entropy model of phonotactic learning.
Lin,
Maocan (2004): "On production and perception of
boundary tone in Chinese intonation", In TAL-2004 [International Symposium
on Tonal Aspects of Languages With Emphasis on Tone
Languages;
McCarthy,
John J. 2008. Harmony in Harmonic Serialism.
Mielke, Jeff. 2005. Ambivalence and ambiguity in laterals and nasals. Phonology 22:169-203.
Myers,
James. 2009. Ranking, ordering, and pattern strength.
Sandler, Wendy. 2008. The Syllable in sign language:
Considering the other natural language modality. In Barbara Davis and Kristine Zajdo (Eds.) Ontogeny and phylogeny of syllable organization:
Festschrift in Honor of Peter MacNeilage. New York:
Taylor Francis.
Shaw, Jason. 2007. Compensatory lengthening via mora preservation
in OT-CC.
Weber, Andrea, & Anne Cutler. 2006. First-language phonotactics in second-language listening. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
Yuan, Jiahong,
Yun, Gwanhi. 2006.
Comparative faithfulness: evidence from compensatory lengthening in Bantu. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and
Morphology 12 (2): 339-360.
Zhang, Jie. 2007. Constraint weighting and constraint domination: A formal comparison. Phonology 24: 433-459.