Sound and Mind

Harvard FAS

Sound and MindExperimentation has emerged as an important methodology for studying phonological knowledge, the mental representation of sound patterns in language. In this course, students learn about current approaches to analyzing sound patterns of a diverse set of languages using experimental methods. We read foundational and recent papers that develop methods for relating phonological form (syllable structure, phonotactics, alternations, stress, and tone) to its expression in articulatory…