The course syllabus and schedule are available here (subject to change, last updated 07/06).
Emails: alexdd@umd.edu, ioded@umd.edu.
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)
| Date | |
|---|---|
| 06/01-02 | Notes for the first two classes. |
| 06/03 | Phonetics slides. |
| 06/12 | The Wikipedia article Phonological rule has a good concise summary of what a phonological rule is, and an explanation of the notation. |
| 06/18 | Constituency Test Notes. |
| 06/22 | Notes on modifiers and recursion. |
| 06/24 | Notes on overgeneration and the lexicon. |
| 06/30 | Phonology acquisition slides. |
| 07/07 | Slides on acquisition of structure-dependent rules. |
| 07/08 | Notes on wh-movement across languages. |
(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.
(You are not required to look at these but you may find them interesting/useful, especially if you have already taken LING 200.)