Time: Tuesdys and Thursdays 1:0-2:15; Bartlett Hall Room 212

Instructor: Keir Moulton

Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00-12:00 (in Room 305 South College)

Here is a pdf of the first chapter of the course pack. You will have to read this until the text is available. Here is the syllabus that was handed out in class. We started dicussing this handout in class.

Exercise 101 [There is a typo in question 3, 'systemically' should be 'systematically']

Exercise 202

We started morphology. By now you should have read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (don't worry if you don't understand all of Chapter 2 yet, we will cover most of this in class. The important part is that you are comfortable with doing morphological analysis

Homework due Tuesday February 5: Exercises 101 and 201

Tuesday: we started to learn about types of morphemes.

Thursday: Guest lecturer, Paula, reviewed the beginnings of morphology and went through exercises 203 and 204

Homework due Thursday February 14: Exercises 205 and 208

Tuesday: we practiced more morphology exercises, including 208, 206 (maybe 207).

Thursday: we start doing morpholoigcal trees (for English). We learned parts of speech (and the tests for each part of speech). And then we learned how to draw trees for words with prefixes and suffixes, and when these are ambiguous (two meanings, like in 'unlockable')

Homework due Thursday February 21st: Exercises 220, 231, 302. (Optional: the rest of exercise 207.)

Tuesday: holiday - no class

Thursday: Morphology wrap up: inflection and derivation, etc.

Homework due Thursday February 28th: Can be found here. The homework consists of more morpholoigcal trees and some phonetics. The trees seem to still be posing some difficulties, so I want you to give them more practice (please see me if you have any questions).

Tuesday: We started phonetics. You should read, and understand, material in the text on pages 49-60

Thursday:More Phonetics: consonants and vowels; you will need to have read pages 49-67 in chapter 4 of the text, by now

Homework due Thursday March 6th: Exercises 405 [the second 405 called 'Voiced or Voiceless'], 406, 411, 412, 420, 421

Tuesday:Sound classes, sound processes, start of morpho-phonology

Thursday:more of the same

Tuesday:Review; Here is a review sheet we went over

Thursday:Test!

Homework due Thursday March 27th: Exercise 435

Tuesday:We took up the test. Then we started learning about phonemes and minimal pairs. If you weren't there, you can read about that in the text on pages 68-70. In class we did exercise 436.

The homework for Thursday is really short

Thursday:Allophones and phonemes

Homework due Thursday April 3: Exercise 437, 438

Tuesday:We did some practice phoneme and allophone exercises. We looked at the following handout, which is here in pdf with the answers filled in.

NOTE: If you didn't do Homework 6 (or don't like your grade) you can do the last exercise on this handout, entitled Proto-Martian, in order to get some marks for homework 6

Thursday:Syllables!!

Homework due Thursday April 10: Exercise 465, 466, 470, 471 (first page on Japanese)

Tuesday:We did more syllable stuff, including syllable shapes, onset cluster constraints in English, and then we did German devoicing

Thursday:More problem sets

Homework #9: can be found here. It is optional in the sense that it will count as the twelfth homework (remember I only count 10 homeworks for you final grade).

Tuesday:Review for TEST!

Thursday:TEST!

Homework #10: Exercise 303 "Identifying Categories and Phrases".Due Thursday April 24th Give it your best try -- since we have just started this topic, I will be kind in grading it.

Tuesday:Parts of speech (review), Constituents, and Constituency Tests. Read Chapter 3, sections 1-3.

Thursday:Constituents, Phrase Structure Rules, Trees

Homework #10: I will still accept Homework 10 (Exercise 303) on Tuesday.

Homework #11: Due Thursday May 1st. Exercises 310 and 321

Tuesday:More Phrase Structure rules: Auxiliaries, NP structure, possesors, conjunction

Thursday:Structural Ambiguity

Homework #12: Due Tuesday May 13th. Exercises 322, 327, 341

Tuesday:More Phrase Structure rules: NP structure, possesors, conjunction, ambiguity

Thursday: PSRs for other languages