Discussion exercises (DE)
are required background material for class discussion.
Homework problems (HW) are turned in for
practice with and feedback on phonological concepts and analysis.
- Grading criteria for homework assignments (PDF)
Current assignments:
- DE/Tu Dec 6 (in class): Gaps in factorial typology
Previous assignments:
- DE/Th Aug 25 (in class): Finnish segment inventory
- DE/Th Sept 1: Arabic consonants
- DE/Th Sept 1: Turkish suffixes
- DE/Tu Sept 6: English plurals
- DE/Tu Sept 6: Segment inventories
- HW #1/due Th Sept 8: Japanese segments in loanwords from English
- DE/Th Sept 8 (in class): Scottish English Vowel Length Rule
- DE/Th Sept 8 (in class)-Tu Sept 13-Th Sept 15: Lamba
- DE/Th Sept 15: Cree
- DE/Tu Sept 20 (in class): Kerewe
- DE/Tu Sept 20-Th Sept 22: Greek
- HW #2/due Th Sept 22: Biblical Hebrew verbs
- DE/Tu Sept 27: Italian nasals
- DE/Tu Sept 27: Thai obstruents
- DE/Th Sept 27 (in class): Ganda liquids
- DE/Tu Sept 27 (in class): Icelandic
- DE/Tu Oct 4 (in class): English aspiration
- DE/Th Oct 6: Two phenomena in Cairene Arabic
- DE/Th Oct 6: Tibetan numerals
- HW #3/due Tu Oct 11: Turkish syllable structure
- DE/Tu Oct 11 (in class): English letter names and sounds
- DE/Th Oct 13 (in class): Deriving the sonority scale
- DE/Th Oct 13: Swahili prefixes
- DE/Th Oct 13: Kihehe prefixes
- DE/Tu Oct 18: Consonant patterns in child phonology
- DE/Tu Oct 18 (in class): Brazilian Portuguese
- HW #4/due Tu Oct 25: Italian vowel length
- DE/Tu Oct 25 (in class): Tone languages
- DE/Th Oct 27: Terena
- DE/Tu Nov 1 (optional/exam review): Latin glides and high vowels
- DE/Th Nov 3 (in class): Onset-related "rules"
- HW #5/due Th Nov 10: English syllabification with constraints
- DE/Th Nov 10: Constraint rankings and their predictions
- DE/Tu Nov 15: Greek (again)
- DE/Tu Nov 22 (in class): Positional patterns
- DE/Tu Nov 22 (in class): Northern Salentino Italian
- HW #6/due Tu Nov 29: Phonological analysis in OT