Syllabus and Schedule

The course syllabus and schedule are available here (subject to change, last updated 07/06).

Emails: alexdd@umd.edu, ioded@umd.edu.

Assignments

Practice Exercise 1 (due Friday 06/05).

Homework 1 (due Wednesday 06/10).

Practice Exercise 2 (due Friday 06/12).

Practice Exercise 3 (due Friday 06/19).

Homework 2 (corrected 06/24) (due Friday 06/26). [original version with mistake]

Practice Exercise 4 (due Friday 06/26).

Homework 3 (due Thursday 07/02 or Friday 07/03 [by email, use phpsyntaxtree to draw trees])

Homework 4 (due Thursday 07/09, moved forward one day from original deadline; read Werker 1995 article in ‘Course Documents’ on Blackboard)

Lectures and other notes

Date
06/01-02Notes for the first two classes.
06/03Phonetics slides.
06/12The Wikipedia article Phonological rule has a good concise summary of what a phonological rule is, and an explanation of the notation.
06/18Constituency Test Notes.
06/22Notes on modifiers and recursion.
06/24Notes on overgeneration and the lexicon.
06/30Phonology acquisition slides.
07/07Slides on acquisition of structure-dependent rules.
07/08Notes on wh-movement across languages.

Online Readings

(Note that there are also readings in the required textbooks specified on the schedule.)

Online readings are now available in the “course documents” section for this course on elms.umd.edu.

Please email me if you have trouble accessing this site and I'll send you the files.

Optional extras

(You are not required to look at these but you may find them interesting/useful, especially if you have already taken LING 200.)