Phono-ish group

Phonology(ish) reading group -- Summer 2005
UNC Chapel Hill

Meeting information

Meetings: Wednesdays 3:30-4:30, Dey 310A.

There is a listserv for interested people, called ph-group. Contact Jen ( jlsmith AT unc DOT edu ) if you would like to be added to the listserv.

Schedule of readings

8/24 Anyone got a reading they would like to propose for the last week of the summer? E-mail Jen or the listserv with suggestions.
8/17 No meeting planned (as of Wed 8/10). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
8/10 Practice talk by Jen for the Freedom of Analysis workshop. [Abstract (PDF)]
8/3 Minkova, Donka, & Robert Stockwell. 2003. English vowel shifts and "optimal" diphthongs: Is there a logical link? In D. Eric Holt, ed., Optimality Theory and Language Change. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 179-190. [See e-mail for download information.]
7/27 Holt, David Eric. 1997. Chapter 1 of The Role of the Listener in the Historical Phonology of Spanish and Portuguese: An Optimality-Theoretic Account. PhD dissertation, Georgetown University. [ROA-278]
7/20 Blevins, Juliette, and Andrew Garrett. 2004. The evolution of metathesis. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 117-156. [PDF download]
7/13 Kawahara, Shigeto. 2005. Sonorancy and geminacy. Ms., UMass Amherst.
See e-mail announcement for download URL.

7/6 No meeting planned (as of Thu 6/30). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
6/30 [Thu!] Gordon, Matthew. Syllable weight. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 277-312. [PDF download]
6/22 Frisch, Stefan A. 2004. Language processing and segmental OCP effects. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 346-371. [PDF download]
6/15 Wedel, Andrew. 2004. Category competition and contrast maintenance. Ms., U. of Arizona. (This is a manuscript version of a paper presented at the LSA, January 2005.) [PDF download]
6/8 No meeting planned (as of Wed 6/1). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
6/1 Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2001. Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition, and contrast. In J. Bybee and P. Hopper, eds., Frequency Effects and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 137-157. [PDF download]
5/25 Johnson, Keith. 1997. Speech perception without speaker normalization. In Keith Johnson and John W. Mullennix, eds., Talker Variability in Speech Processing. San Diego: Academic Press, 145-165.

Brief discussion outline

Some topics of interest

Exemplar-based models of phonology
Phonetic/functional grounding of phonological patterns
- Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches
- Direct-phonetics vs. more abstract approaches
Metrical structure/syllable weight
...

Some more readings we may want to consider:

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8/24	Anyone got a reading they would like to propose for the last week of the summer? E-mail Jen or the listserv with suggestions.
8/17	No meeting planned (as of Wed 8/10). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
8/10	Practice talk by Jen for the Freedom of Analysis workshop. [Abstract (PDF)]
8/3	Minkova, Donka, & Robert Stockwell. 2003. English vowel shifts and "optimal" diphthongs: Is there a logical link? In D. Eric Holt, ed., Optimality Theory and Language Change. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 179-190. [See e-mail for download information.]
7/27	Holt, David Eric. 1997. Chapter 1 of The Role of the Listener in the Historical Phonology of Spanish and Portuguese: An Optimality-Theoretic Account. PhD dissertation, Georgetown University. [ROA-278]
7/20	Blevins, Juliette, and Andrew Garrett. 2004. The evolution of metathesis. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 117-156. [PDF download]
7/13	Kawahara, Shigeto. 2005. Sonorancy and geminacy. Ms., UMass Amherst. See e-mail announcement for download URL.
7/6	No meeting planned (as of Thu 6/30). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
6/30 [Thu!]	Gordon, Matthew. Syllable weight. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 277-312. [PDF download]
6/22	Frisch, Stefan A. 2004. Language processing and segmental OCP effects. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 346-371. [PDF download]
6/15	Wedel, Andrew. 2004. Category competition and contrast maintenance. Ms., U. of Arizona. (This is a manuscript version of a paper presented at the LSA, January 2005.) [PDF download]
6/8	No meeting planned (as of Wed 6/1). Group members can use the listserv to organize a meeting for this week if there's interest.
6/1	Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2001. Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition, and contrast. In J. Bybee and P. Hopper, eds., Frequency Effects and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 137-157. [PDF download]
5/25	Johnson, Keith. 1997. Speech perception without speaker normalization. In Keith Johnson and John W. Mullennix, eds., Talker Variability in Speech Processing. San Diego: Academic Press, 145-165. Brief discussion outline