Phonology 2 (LIN 623)

Course Information

Course: MW 10:30-11:50, SBS S216

Instructor: Jeffrey Heinz, jeffrey.heinz@stonybrook.edu

Office Hours: TTh 11:20-13:00, SBS N237

Today we discussed some issues with the Ilokano assignment (due Friday).
Today we discussed some aspects of computational phonology with slides 7-18 from the course I gave on computational phonology at the LSA Summer Institute in 2019 at UC Davis.
For Wednesday, read Dell and Elemdaoui (see the schedule) on syllabification in Berber.

We discussed Chapter 3 of McCarthy 2008 Doing OT
We discussed the Ilokano assignment a little bit more.
For Wednesday, please read Hyman 2011 on tone, and map out the argument structure of this chapter.

Some revised deadlines: 1-1s to discuss potential projects should be completed by March 3 and project proposals are due by March 31.
We discussed 2.1 of McCarthy 2008 Doing OT
We observed a parallel between McCarthy’s highlighting of linguistic generalizations in analysis development and the “verbal” and “formal” in Rooij and Baggio 2021 (see figure).
Squib 3 on Ilokano is due Friday March 24, 2023.
We discussed some of the linguistic generalizations in Ilokano.

We finished discussing Vaux’s (2008) critique of OT, in particular optionality, ineffability, unnaturalness, and the “too many solutions” problem.
For next class, read sections 2.1 and chapter 3 of McCarthy 2008 Doing OT

We had some Q&A about the assignment due Wednesday.
We had some discussion about descriptive and explanatory goals and what counts as descriptive and/or explanatory.
Jeff questioned whether intermediary representations are necessary to account for opaque patterns contra McCarthy’s (2008) claim.
We began reviewing Vaux’s (2008) critique of OT, identified his main objections, and began talking specifically about his critique of OT wrt optionality.
To do: complete reading Vaux’s chapter by next Monday.

We finished discussing McCarthy 2007, chapters 1-2 in particular the following approaches to opacity in OT: harmonic serialism and stratal OT.

We discussed some lessons from squib 1.
We continued discussing McCarthy 2007, chapters 1-2 in particular the following approaches to opacity in OT: representational, local constraint conjunction, and 2-level constraints.
On Wed we will discuss harmonic serialism, stratal OT, sympathy theory, contrast preservation.
Also note: on the Polish assignment there was a typo: the nom.pl. of ‘room’ is not [pokoji]. The HW has been fixed. You only need to account for the alternations in the noun stems. You do not need to account for the alternations in the plural suffix.

We reviewed Kager’s (1999) sections 1.5 and 1.6 on complementary distribution and lexicon optimization, and discussed its implications for phonemes.
We continued discussing McCarthy 2007, chapters 1-2.
For Wednesday: finish reading this chapter and squib 1 is due.

We finished discussing the introduction to phonology.
We began discussing McCarthy 2007, chapters 1-2.
For Monday, read McCarthy 2007 through page 36 up to 2.3.4.2. Take notes which identify McCarthy’s main points and identify questions to raise in class on Monday.
FYI we will finish reading this chapter by Wednesday if you want a head start (reminder squib 1 is due then too).