Kie Zuraw

UCLA Linguistics

Ling 201A

Phonological Theory II

Winter 2018

Mondays & Wednesdays 2:00-3:50 in Campbell 3122

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

• Course information
  
• Lecture handouts
  
• Study questions and study guides for readings (includes general tips on reading)
  
• Homework problems
  
• Links
  

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 student hours: day & amp; TBA, in Campbell 3122A

Syllabus

Lecture handouts

• Class 1 (Jan. 10): Structure above the segment, part I (syllables and the grid)
• Class 2 (Jan. 12): Structure above the segment, part II (moras and feet)
• No class Jan. 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Class 3 (Jan. 17): Structure above the segment, part III (more feet)
• Class 4 (Jan. 22): Structure above the segment, part IV (yet more feet, and PWords)
• Class 5 (Jan. 24): Structure above the segment, part V (more PWords, the CV skeleton)
• Class 6 (Jan. 29): Downward interfaces (role of phonetic substance in phonology)
• Class 7 (Jan. 31): Downward interfaces, part II (phonologization)
• Class 8 (Feb. 5): Structure below the segment (autosegmentalism)
• Class 9 (Feb. 7): Structure below the segment, part II (more autosegmentalism)
• Class 10 (Feb. 12): Structure below the segment, part III (yet more autosegmentalism, phonetic interpretations)
• Class 11 (Feb. 14): Upward interfaces: Prosodic morphology and issues in phonology-morphology interface
• No class Feb. 19: Presidents Day
• Class 12 (Feb. 21): Upward interfaces II: phonology, morphology, and paradigms
• Class 13 (Feb. 26): Upward interfaces III: phrasal phonology basics
• Class 14 (Feb. 28): Upward interfaces IV: phonology and syntax, cont'd
• Class 15 (Mar. 4): We ended up having a wide-ranging discussion; no handout.
• Class 16 (Mar. 6): Sideways interfaces: Phonology-lexicon and phonology-processing
• Class 17 (Mar. 12): Sideways interfaces II: More phonology-processing
• Class 18 (Mar. 14): Getting phonological evidence; course wrap-up
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Study questions and study guides for readings

Tips on reading scholarly articles

• Study question for Hayes 1995, chapter 3 (due Jan. 17--that's a Wednesday, because Monday Jan. 15 is a holiday)
• Study question for Moreton 2008 (due Jan. 29)
• Study question for Hall 2006 (due Feb. 5)
• Study question for McCarthy & Prince 1995 (due Feb. 14)
• Study question for Steriade 1999 (due Feb. 21)
• Study question for Wagner 2012 (due Mar. 5)

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

• First HW, due Friday, Jan. 19. Please leave a hard copy in my mailbox (Campbell 3125).
  Stress in Fijian.
  • PDF of Fijian
  • DOCX of Fijian
• Second HW, due Friday, Feb. 2
  Stress in Manam.
  • PDF of Manam
  • DOC of Manam
• Third HW, due Friday, Feb. 16
  Autosegmentalism in Chaha.
  • PDF of Chaha
  • DOCX of Chaha
• Fourth HW, due Friday, Feb. 23
  Prosodic morphology in Samoan.
  • PDF of Samoan
  • Excel file: data for Samoan
• Fifth HW, due Friday, Mar. 9
  Phrasal phonology in Ewe.
  • PDF of Ewe
  • DOCX of Ewe

Links

Bruce Hayes's OTSoft
If you give it candidates, constraints, and constraint violations, it gives you a constraint ranking (if there is one) and makes nice tableaux for you.
Also runs Gradual Learning Algorithm and MaxEnt OT

Staubs et al.'s OT-Help
Accepts OTSoft-format input files.
Will rank your constraints in standard OT, but will also give Harmonic Grammar constraint weights--and implements serial versions of both.

Floris van Vugt's Marpa-OT
Lets you make an OT tableau in a spreadsheet program and then convert it into code you can paste into a LaTeX document.

Feature chart and definitions by Bruce Hayes
includes handy Excel spreadsheet

FeaturePad
free software (Windows only) for learning about and manipulating features

Floris van Vugt's Pheatures
A modern Java version of FeaturePad, with many improvements!

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