LING3004 Senior seminar

Dr. Maksymilian Dąbkowski

Capstone Course. Sem 1, 6 credits

Course Description

This is an advanced undergraduate course in phonology, with a focus on phonological theory. The field of phonology has several candidate theories that vie to capture the complete set of sound patterns that arise across languages. This course introduces you to a handful of such theories that have proved central in phonological analyses, as well as phonological representations commonly used therein.
Moreover, the course aims to instill an understanding of how to compare and evaluate theories for how well they capture the variety of phonological phenomena cross-linguistically. What kind of representations, rules, constraints, interactions thereof, etc. are needed to account for these phenomena? Based on their architectural properties, what do the various theories predict should arise in the phonologies of the world?

Prerequisite:
LING2027 Phonology

Note: For General Linguistics majors only.

Assessment:
100% coursework.

Event Timeslots (1)

WED
1:00 pm - 2:50 pm
CRT-9.25 - Dr. Maksymilian Dąbkowski