Calendar. Below is a calendar with tentative topics for the semester and links to notes and reading assignments.  I will update it as it works out; shaded boxes have not been updated and are still tentative.  Assignments are available via oncourse, and will be posted by Thursday of the week before it is due.

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

Readings

1

31

Introduction

Observation & Theory

2

Phonetics & Phonology

Speech and Language

Waveforms to work with in class

 

Tue: File 1.1 & 1.2

Thur:  Files 1.3 & 2.0 & 2.6.1 – 2.6.3

2

7

Phonetics & Phonology

Modeling & Categorization

9

Phonetics & Phonology

Event Classification Exercise in Class

Also: if you want to work with your own acoustic representations, check out on set of software Tools here.

 

Tues: Files 3.0 & 3.1.2 (pp. 102 – 103)

3

14

Phonetics & Phonology

Information Reduction & Transcription

Also, if you want to check out some of the websites on articulatory recording, here are a few

Electropalatography,

X-ray Cinematography.

Microbeam System.

16

Phonetics & Phonology

Consonants

More Event Classification

 

Tue: File 2.1

Thur: Files 2.2 & 2.4.3 – end (pp. 60 – 63)

4

21

Phonetics & Phonology

Transcription Systems & Vowels  

23

Phonetics & Phonology

Transcription and Variation

 

Tue: Files 2.3, 2.4.2, & 2.6.4

5

28

Phonetics & Phonology

QUIZ 1: transcription system

The Alphabetic Model

Also: if you want to hear some of the categories not in English, some are here.

30

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemes and Combinatorics

Natural Classes

Constraints

 

Tue: Files 3.1.2 (again) & 3.3

6

5

Phonetics & Phonology

Distributional Analysis

7

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemic Analysis

 

Tue: Files 3.1 (all of it), 3.2, & 3.5

7

12

Phonetics & Phonology

Cross-language Comparison

Orthographic Systems

Also: accented speech samples can be gotten here.

Links to examples of various types of writing systems are below:

Logographic: Chinese

Syllabary: Cherokee

Alphabetic: Phoenecian

Analytic Alphabet: Korean

????: English

14

Phonetics & Phonology

Phonemic Systems and Representation

 

Tue: File 13.4

8

19

Morphology & Syntax

Morphological Variation

21

Morphology & Syntax

Morphemic Analysis

 

Tue: Files 1.4, 4.0, & 4.1

Thur: File 4.5

9

26

Outline of What’s on the Mid-term

EXAM

28

Morphology & Syntax

Morphological Derivations

 

 

Thur: Files 4.2 & 4.4

10

2

Morphology & Syntax

Morpho-syntactic Categorization

4

Syntax  Lab

11:15: Lindley 025

1:00: Student Building 221

2:30: Student Building 221

4:00: TBA

Morpho-syntactic Frames

 

Tue: Files 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, & 5.3

11

9

Morphology & Syntax

Constituency

11

Syntax  Lab

11:15: Lindley 025

1:00: Student Building 221

2:30: Student Building 221

4:00: TBA

Trees, Parsing  & Generation

 

Tue: Files 5.4.1 - 3, & 5.5

Thur: File 5.4.4 - 6

12

15

Morphology & Syntax

QUIZ #2

Phrase Structure Grammars

17

Syntax  Lab

11:15: Lindley 025

1:00: Student Building 221

2:30: Student Building 221

4:00: SPEA 151

Writing Rules

 

13

22

Morphology & Syntax

Grammatical Relations, Agreement & Government

 

24

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

14

29

 

Morphology & Syntax

Model Evaluation

 

1

Syntax Lab

11:15: Ballantine 118

1:00: Student Building 221

2:30: Student Building 221

4:00: Ballantine 308

Misbehaving Structures

Last Lab Section

 

 

Thur: File 5.6

15

6

Morphology & Syntax

English

Versus other systems:

Finnish Rules

Japanese Rules

Korean Rules

Mandarin Chinese Rules

English Nu

 

8

Review

Meet in Regular Classrooms

Review list

 

 

13

 

Exam: 2:45 – 4:45