24.962 Advanced Phonology
Spring 2013
Instructors: Adam Albright, Edward Flemming
Lecture: TR10-11.30 (32-D461)
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Announced on 15 May 2013 12:26 p.m. by Edward Flemming
Parallel and serial derivations in OT
I've managed to reconstruct why I thought Lithuanianassimilation/epenthesis is a problem for serial OT. I've posted a short handout explaining the problem
- Edward
Announced on 07 May 2013 11:27 p.m. by Edward Flemming
Schedule for final presentations
Here is the automagically, ultra-randomly determined division
of presentations into days for next week that we determined this
morning. (Please feel free to swap) The order within
each day is not fixed, though can serve as a default order, if
nobody is clamoring to go first.
Tues 5/14: Sam, Ishani, Anthony, Juliet, Isa
Thurs 5/16: Chris, Aron, Benjamin, Lilla, Ruth, Sudheer
Tues 5/14: Sam, Ishani, Anthony, Juliet, Isa
Thurs 5/16: Chris, Aron, Benjamin, Lilla, Ruth, Sudheer
Announced on 07 May 2013 2:53 p.m. by Adam Albright
Readings
I've posted a bunch of papers relevant to the recent lectures on opacity, including McCarthy's paper on stress and syncope.Study questions for the latter paper:
i. What happens if the input contains stress/prosodic structure?
ii. In the final version of the analysis of Aguaruna where feet are constructed one at a time, what constraint rankings favor constructing a second (and third) foot over deleting a vowel?
- Edward
Announced on 02 May 2013 4:56 p.m. by Edward Flemming
Reading for 4/23
I've posted a reading in preparation for our next topic:Bakovic (2007) A revised typology of opaque generalizations.
- Edward
Announced on 18 April 2013 4:48 p.m. by Edward Flemming
