Introduction to Phonology

Lecture Notes (DO NOT USE)

Lecture 1: What Phonologists Do (PDF)      

Lecture 2: What Phonologists Do (continued) (PDF)     

Lecture 3: Features and Processes (PDF)     

Lecture 4: Features (continued) (PDF)      

Lecture 5: Length, Autosegments (PDF)      

Lecture 6: Length and Tone (PDF)     

Lecture 7: Vowel Harmony (PDF)      

Lecture 8: Vowel Harmony (continued) (PDF)     

Lecture 9: Rule Ordering (PDF)      

Lecture 10: Rule Ordering (continued) (PDF)      

Lecture 11: Optimality Theory Basics (PDF)     

Lecture 12: OT (continued) (PDF)      

Lecture 13: [Midterm] 

Lecture 14: OT: Conspiracies (PDF)      

Lecture 15: OT: Blockage (PDF)     

Lecture 16: Factorial Typologies: Syllables (PDF)      

Lecture 17: Factorial Typologies: Sonority (PDF)     

Lecture 18: Factorial Typologies: Stress (PDF)     

Lecture 19: Stress (continued) (PDF)      

Lecture 20: English Stress and Morphology (PDF)      

Lecture 21: Morphology: Infixing (PDF)     

Lecture 22: Morphology: Truncation (PDF)      

Lecture 23: Morphology: Reduplication (PDF)     

Lecture 24: Reduplication (continued) (PDF)