Introduction to Nonlinear Phonology

Syllabus

Instructor: T. A. Hall (hall@rz.uni-leipzig.de)

Class meeting: MWF 8.30-10.30

Office hours: to be announced

Office: to be announced

Course requirements:

1. Attend class and participate in discussion

2. Three homework assignments

3. Final exam in class on Friday, August 2, 2002.

Required readings: (relevant chapters are available as a reader)

1. Goldsmith, John. 1990. Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.

2. Hulst, Harry van der & Jeroen van de Weijer 1995. Vowel harmony. In: John Goldsmith (ed.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory. 495-535. Oxford: Blackwell.

3. Ewen, Colin J. & Harry van der Hulst 2001. The Phonological Structure of Words. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4. Hayes, Bruce 1989. Compensatory lengthening in moraic phonology. In: John Goldsmith (ed.) Phonological Theory. The Essential Readings. 351-369. Oxford: Blackwell.

Course description:

This course is an introduction to approaches commonly referred to as nonlinear phonology, i.e. autosegmental phonology, metrical phonology and the theory of the syllable. Some of the topics to be discussed include:

● Tone languages

● Vowel harmony

● The syllable (e.g. sonority, nonlinear representations, syllable weight)

● Word stress (e.g. the foot, foot typology)

Data will be drawn both from commonly spoken Indo-European languages as well as from lesser known language families. The course will be suitable for beginners and for students with some background in phonology.

Date Topic Reading Homework

July 15 Tonal phonology Goldsmith (1990: 8-29) -------------

July 17 Tonal phonology Goldsmith (1990: 29-47) -------------

July 19 -------------- -------------- -------------

July 22 Vowel harmony Hulst & Weijer (1995) assigment 1 due

July 24 The syllable Ewen & Hulst (2001: 115-141) assigment 2 due

July 26 The syllable Hayes (1989: 351-369) --------------

July 29 The foot Ewen & Hulst (2001: 196-216) assigment 3 due

July 31 Foot typology Ewen & Hulst (2001: 216-241) --------------

August 2 Final Exam -------------- --------------