Language and Its Structure I: Phonology

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1	Introduction, course overview, vowels: articulatory description and transcription	(PDF)
2-3	Consonants: articulatory description and transcription; distinctive features	(PDF)
4	Phonological versus phonetic representations	(PDF)
5	Alternations and derivations I	(PDF)
6	Alternations and derivations II	(PDF)
7	Constraints	(PDF)
8	Phonetics I: acoustics of vowels, using Praat	(PDF)
9	Phonetics II: acoustics of consonants	(PDF)
10	Phonetics III: suprasegmentals	(PDF)
11	Feature geometry	(PDF)
12	Course review
13	Sociolinguistic variables	(PDF)
14	American English dialects	(PDF)
15	Tone I: African languages	(PDF)
16	Tone II: Asian languages	(PDF)
17	Tone III: intonation and phrasing	(PDF)
18	Syllables I: structure and syllabification	(PDF)
19	Syllables II: sonority	(PDF)
20	Stress I: prominence	(PDF)
21	Stress II: rhythm	(PDF)
22	Stress III: weight	(PDF)
23	Prosodic morphology: reduplication and truncation	(PDF)
24	Loanword phonology	(PDF)
25	Review	(PDF)