Prosody/phonology/phonetics reading group -- Summer 2009
UNC Chapel Hill

Meeting information

Meetings: Day/time varies. Smith 103B (ling conference room).

Schedule of readings

Th 7/16 3:30pm	Féry, Caroline, and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2006. Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci. Language 82(1): 131-150. [link] Background references cited in reading: Selkirk (1995) Schwarzschild (1999)
Tu 7/7 3:30pm	Kratzer, Angelika, and Elisabeth Selkirk. 2007. Phase theory and prosodic spellout: The case of verbs. The Linguistic Review 24 (2-3): 93-135. [link]
Th 6/25 3:30pm	Peng, Shu-hui, et al. 2005. Towards a pan-Mandarin system for prosodic transcription. In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.), Prosodic typology: The phonology of intonation and phrasing, 230-270. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Th 6/18 3pm	Selkirk, Elisabeth. 2000. The interaction of constraints on prosodic phrasing. In Merle Horne (ed.), Prosody: Theory and Experiments, 231-261. Dordrecht: Kluwer. [link] For more background information: Intro/overview of prosodic hierarchy

Some topics of interest

• Prosodic structure
• Tone and intonation
• Syntax/phonology interface
• ...

Some more readings we may want to consider

• Work by J. Ito & A. Mester on adjunction in prosodic phonology -- Can we reduce the inventory of "phonological phrase"-type categories to one?
• Work on syntactic phases (Minimalist Program) and prosody, by S. Ishihara / ...?
• ...?

Resources

• Tobias Scheer's "Little Interface Library"
• Basic intro/overview of prosodic hierarchy