24.962 | Spring 2005 | Graduate

Advanced Phonology

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Correspondence Theory
1 Correspondence Theory Basics

2 Correspondence Theory (cont.) Assignment 1 due
3 MAX F Constraints and Positional Faithfulness

Reduplication
4 Reduplication: Basic Laws

5 Reduplicative Correspondence Assignment 2 due
6 Reduplicant Size and Placement

7 Reduplicant Size and Placement (cont.) Assignment 3 due
8 BR vs. IR Correspondence

9 Emergence of the Unmarked, and Non-reduplicative Correspondence Assignment 4 due
Lexical Phonology and Cyclicity Effects
10 Lexical vs. Postlexical Phonology

11 Cyclicity and its OT Translations Assignment 5 due
12 OO Correspondence

13 Base-derivative Correspondence Assignment 6 due
Paradigm Uniformity
14 Paradigm Uniformity

15 Paradigm Uniformity (cont.) Assignment 7 due
16 More on Paradigm Regularization Assignment 8 due
Opacity
17 Overview: Types of Opacity

18 Characteristics of Opacity

19 Formalization of Opacity in OT Assignment 9 due
20 Sympathy Theory

Other Approaches to Opacity

21 Comparative Markedness

Exceptions
22 Introduction to Exceptions

23 The Representation of Exceptions

24 What is regular, and what is an exception?

Student Presentations
25 Student Presentations, Part 1

26 Student Presentations, Part 2 Final papers due 9 days after lecture 26

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