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| SES # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Geographical Variation | ||
| 2 | Regional Accents - Transcription | Ladefoged (2001) ch. 4 |
| 3 | Overview of Accent Variation in the USA | |
| 4 | Speech Acoustics | Labov et al. (1997) |
| 5 | Acoustic Analysis of Speech | Ladefoged (2001) ch. 8 |
| Sound Change as a Source of Variation I: Regularity of Sound Change | ||
| 6 | What are the Units of Sound Change? | |
| 7 | Regular Sound Change vs. Lexical Diffusion | Labov (1981), (2010) ch. 13 |
| 8 | Regular Sound Change vs. Lexical Diffusion (II) | |
| Age-Related Variation | ||
| 9 | Age-Related Variation | Harrington et al. (2000) |
| Social Variation | ||
| 10 | Social Variation | Labov (1963) |
| Variation within the Individual, Stable Variation | ||
| 11 | Variation within the Individual | |
| 12 | The Role of the Listener in Sound Change | Guy (1980) |
| The Mechanisms of Sound Change I: Phonetic Conditioning | ||
| 13 | Phonetic Conditioning of Sound Change | |
| 14 | An Exemplar-Based Model of Sound Change | Ohala (1981) |
| 15 | Phonetic Grammar and Gradual Change | |
| 16 | Stability and Change | Pierrehumbert (2001) |
| 17 | Sound Change and Fashion | |
| The Mechanisms of Sound Change II: Grammatical Conditioning | ||
| 18 | Morphological Conditioning | |
| 19 | Chain Shifts | |
| 20 | Chain Shifts (cont’d) | |
| The Comparative Method | ||
| 21 | The Comparative Method: Introduction | Campbell (2005) ch. 5 |
| 22 | The Comparative Method: Grouping Languages, Cladistics | |
| In-Class Presentations | ||
| 23 | Presentations | |
| 24 | Presentations | |
| Syntactic Change | ||
| 25 | Word Order Change in Old English | Pintzuk (1995) |
| 26 | Syntactic Change (II) | |
