Kie Zuraw

UCLA Linguistics

Ling 200A

Phonological Theory I

Fall 2008

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-10:50 in Bunche 1265

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Almost everything here is a PDF file, so you need Adobe AcrobatReader (or similar software) to view and print.

• Course information
  
• Term paper stuff
  
• Lecture handouts
  
• Study questions and study guides for readings (includes general tips on reading)
  
• Problems
  
• Links
  
• Suggestions for further reading
  

How to make fancy brackets in MS Word
and here is a Word version that you can copy the examples from

Course information

Kie's office hours: Thursdays 12:00-13:50, in Campbell 3122A

Syllabus

Term paper stuff

Basic directions

Directions for bibliographic exercise (due Oct. 30)

Lecture handouts

Overview and Intro (Class 1, Sept. 25)

Rule notation review
and Kasem data (Class 2, Sept. 30)

Extrinsic rule ordering (Class 3, Oct. 2)

The duplication and conspiracy problems (Class 4, Oct. 7)

Rule+constraint theories; taking stock (Class 5, Oct. 9)

Optimality Theory, Part I (Class 6, Oct. 14)

Optimality Theory, Part II (Class 7, Oct. 16)

Issues in rule application (Classes 8 and 9, Oct. 21 and 23)

The cycle, part I (Class 10, Oct. 28)

The cycle, part II (Class 11, Oct. 30)

Process interaction--extrinsic ordering? part I (Class 12, Nov. 4)

Process interaction--extrinsic ordering? part II (Class 13, Nov. 6)

Nov. 11: Holiday; no class.

Autosegmental representations, part I (Class 14, Nov. 13)

Autosegmental representations, part II (Class 15, Nov. 18)

Stress, part I: grids (Class 16, Nov. 20)

Stress, part II: feet (Class 17, Nov. 25)

Stress, part III: foot-inventory asymmetries (Class 18, Nov. 27)

Course wrap-up (Class 19, Dec. 2)

Study questions and study guides for readings

Tips on reading scholarly articles

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth chs. 1 and 2 (due Sept. 30)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portions of chs. 3 and 9 (due Oct. 2)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 5 (due Oct. 7)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth portion of ch. 10 (due Oct. 9)

Kisseberth 1970 (due Oct. 9)

Prince & Smolensky 1993 excerpt (due Oct. 16)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth ch. 8 (due Oct. 21)

Anderson 1984 ch. 9 (due Oct. 23)

Kenstowicz & Kisseberth another (earlier) portion of ch. 10 (due Oct. 28)

Kiparsky 2000 (due Oct. 30)

Anderson 1984 ch. 10 excerpt (due Nov. 4)

Goldsmith 1990 ch. 1 (due Nov. 13)

Kager 1996 (due Nov. 20)

Hayes 1985 ch. 7 (due Nov. 25)

Problem sets

I'll usually post two versions of each assignment:

1. the PDF version, which is best for viewing and printing
2. a MS Word version, with fonts embedded, so that you can (I hope) copy and paste data to your write-up

Warm-up problem (not graded)

• PDF

Malagasy (due Oct. 7)

• PDF
• MS Word

Metaphony (due Oct. 14)

• PDF
• MS Word

Beginning OT exercises (due Oct. 21)

• PDF
• MS Word

Hakha Lai (due Oct. 28)

• PDF
• MS Word

Chamorro (due Nov. 4)

• PDF
• MS Word

Holoholo (I wrote Nov. 18 on the handout but Nov. 21 on the web page; I meant Nov. 18 but will be flexible about it, since you may have been planning based on the other date)

• PDF
• Excel file with data
• Tab-separated text version of data (let me know if the accent marks don't come out right)

Manam (due Dec. 2)

• PDF
• MS Word

Links

Feature chart and definitions by Bruce Hayes
includes handy Excel spreadsheet

FeaturePad
free software for learning about and manipulating features

SIL International
Fonts, software, and more. To go straight to free fonts, click here.

The International Phonetic Association (IPA)
Various useful things, including a mention of how to get phonetics fonts for TeX/LaTeX (click on "fonts" in the menu on the left).

Doug Arnold's LaTeX for Linguists pages
How to do various linguistic things in LaTeX: IPA symbols, OT tableaux, autosegmental representations, glossing, trees...

Ethnologue
Basic information on all the world's languages.

Speech Internet dictionary (SIPhTrA)
By John Maidment

Online sounds from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
Includes an IPA chart that you can click on to hear sounds

Suggestions for further reading--in progress from year to year

• Rule notation, rule application, and rule ordering
  • Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. MIT Press.
    And of course, there's so much more in here than rule notation. If you plan to be a phonologist you must read this book.
    
  • Steven Anderson (1984). The Organization of Phonology. New York: Academic Press.
  • Howard, Irwin (1972). A Directional Theory of Rule Application in Phonology. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
  • Koutsoudas, A., G. Sanders and C. Noll (1974). The Application of Phonological Rules. Language 50: 1-28.
• Lexical phonology:
  • Mascaró, Joan (1976). Catalan phonology and the phonological cycle. Indiana University dissertation.
    Follows [Kean, Mary-Louise (1974). The strict cycle in phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 5: 179-203] in extending [Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press]'s syntactic Strict Cycle Condition to phonology to produce NDEB (a phenomenon pointed out by Kiparsky 1973a) in cyclic rules-and only in cyclic rules. Includes now-classic Catalan examples.
  • Pesetsky, David (1979). Russian morphology and lexical theory. MIT ms.
    Addresses the problem that morphology seems to demand bracket erasure after each WFR (later WFRs are blind to information from earlier stages), but phonological rules need those brackets. His solution was to interleave WFRs with the cyclic phonological rules, instead of starting with the full morphological output and then erasing brackets. All this happens "in the lexicon". Postcyclic rules come later, after the syntax.
  • Kiparsky, Paul (1982). Lexical phonology and morphology. In I. S. Yang (ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin. Pp. 3-91.
    Shows how Pesetsky's proposal explains various differences between lexical and postlexical rules. Proposes levels, and uses identity rules to capture NDEB.
  • Mohanan, K.P. (1982). Lexical phonology. MIT dissertation. Revised as Mohanan, K.P. (1986). The Theory of Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
    Like Kiparsky, proposes levels, but argues that some rules have to apply in more than one level (as long as those levels are adjacent).
  • Kiparsky, Paul (1985). Some consequences of lexical phonology. Phonology Yearbook 2: 83-138.
  • Booij, Geert and Jerzy Rubach (1987). Postcyclic versus postlexical rules in lexical phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 18: 1-44.
    Propose that an additional level of postcyclic lexical rules (word level) applies before syntax.
  • Paul Kiparsky (1982). From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology. In H. V. D. Hulst and Norval Smith (eds.), The Structure of Phonological Representations, Foris: Dordrecht. Pp. 131-175.
  • K.P. Mohanan (1995). The organization of the grammar. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
  • Jennifer Cole (1995). The cycle in phonology. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
• Tones and autosegmental phonology:
  • John Goldsmith (1979). Autosegmental Phonology. Garland Press.
  • Cheryl Zoll (1996). A Unified Treatment of Segments and Features. Phonology at Santa Cruz 3. Available online on Rutgers Optimality Archive
  • Cheryl Zoll (2003). Optimal Tone Mapping. Linguistic Inquiry 34 (2): 225-268
  • G.N. Clements & Elizabeth Hume (1995). The internal organization of speech sounds. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
  • David Odden (1995). Tone: African languages. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
  • Moira Yip (1995). Tone in East Asian languages. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
• Stress, moras, and feet:
  • Bruce Hayes (1995). Metrical Stress Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • John McCarthy and Alan Prince (1986/1996). Prosodic Morphology 1986. Technical Report #32, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Available online on here.
  • John McCarthy and Alan Prince (1993). Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction. Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science technical report #3 (RuCCS-TR-3). Available online on Rutgers Optimality Archive.
  • Ellen Broselow (1995). Skeletal positions and moras. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
  • Morris Halle & William Idsardi (1995). General properties of stress and metrical structure. In John Goldsmith (ed.), Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell.
• OT:
  • Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (1993/2004). Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Blackwell. Available online on Rutgers Optimality Archive.
  • Rene Kager (1999). Optimality Theory. Cambridge UP.
    Beginning textbook.
  • John McCarthy (2002). A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory Cambridge UP.
    Advanced textbook.