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

Materials

• Syllabus
• Post Spring Break Paper Schedule

Course Log

03 May 2023

• Anastasiia and Ryan presented a SF analysis of vowel harmony in Votic. (slides

01 May 2023

• Erica hosted a debate between ELizabeth and Sarah on Substance Free Phonology (slides)

26 Apr 2023

• William and Leo presented Belvin’s on Evolutionary Phonology. (slides)

24 Apr 2023

• Elnaz and Felix presented on the first 2 chapters of Phonetically-Based Phonology. (slides)

19 Apr 2023

• Allison and Jack discussed Raimy’s theory of reduplication. (slides)

17 Apr 2023

• Alexa and Erica discussed Raimy’s history of issues in, and theories of, reduplication. (slides)

12 Apr 2023

• Allison and Abdullah discussed Bermúdez-Otero on stratal OT. (slides)

10 Apr 2023

• Elnaz and William discussed Kayes 1980 on the 10th vowel of Dida. (slides)

05 Apr 2023

• Alexa, Leo, and Logan discussed Chandlee and Jardine 2021 on Boolean Recursive Monadic Schemes. (slides)

03 Apr 2023

• Elizabeth and Sarah discussed Chandlee and Jardine 2021 on locality and autosegmentality (slides)

29 Mar 2023

• Anastassia and Logan discussed Strother-Garcia’s analysis of syllabification in ITB (slides)

27 Mar 2023

• Abdullah and Jack discussed Prince and Smolensky’s analysis of syllabification in ITB (slides)

22 Mar 2023

• Felix and Ryan discussed Dell and Elemdaoui’s analysis of syllabification in ITB (slides)

20 Mar 2023

• 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.

13 - 15 Mar 2023

• Stress Free Week! It’s Spring Break, no class.

08 Mar 2023

• In class exercise: Nanti
• We also scheduled presentations after spring break.

06 Mar 2023

• Stress Week! Here are some notes on stress.

01 Mar 2023

• We examined the arguments made by Hyman 2011 on tone.
• HW: Work on Ilokano

27 Feb 2023

• 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.

22 Feb 2023

• 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.

20 Feb 2023

• 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

15 Feb 2023

• Class cancelled; instructor ill.

13 Feb 2023

• 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.

08 Feb 2023

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

06 Feb 2023

• 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.

01 Feb 2023

• We continued discussing McCarthy 2007, chapters 1-2.
• Squib 2 on Polish is due February 15, 2023.

30 Jan 2023

• 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.

25 Jan 2023

• 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).

23 Jan 2023

• We went over the syllabus.
• We went over this introduction to phonology.
• Squib 1 on Toba Batak is due February 1, 2023.