For next Thursday (2/23), please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website:
Katamba, Francis. 2005. English Words: Structure, History, Usage, 2nd ed., Chap. 5 (“A lexicon with layers”). London: Routledge.
For next Tuesday (2/14) and Thursday (2/16), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.)
Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 8 (“English word stress”) & Chap. 9 (“The rhythm of English”). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Your second homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, February 16, at the beginning of class.
Here are the handouts from our discussion of your language description assignments from last Thursday. The first provides some more detailed guidance, tips, and suggestions for completing the assignments, while the second provides some sample topics:
Due to a change in my schedule, my regular Friday office hours will be postponed by one hour, to 11:30am-1pm.
For next Tuesday (2/7) and Thursday (2/9), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.)
Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 3.1-3.2 (English onsets and codas). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 7 (“English syllable structure”). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
For this Thursday (2/2), please read the following book excerpt, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 2.1-2.2 (General introduction to the English syllable). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Your first homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Tuesday, February 7, at the beginning of class. (Note the change in due date from the original printed syllabus.)
For this Thursday (1/26) and next Tuesday (1/31), please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.)
Giegerich, Heinz. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction, Chapter 3 (“Some English vowel systems”). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
For next Tuesday (1/24), please read the following book excerpt, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
Giegerich, Heinz. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction, Chapter 8.1-8.2 (Discussion of English allophony). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.