Phonology I

(4 Credits)

This course is the first half of a two-course sequence introducing phonological theory. The content and course design are oriented primarily toward graduate students in linguistics. This course has three goals, which will be pursued in roughly the following order of logical (not chronological) priority. (i) To teach students how to work with phonological data, make a generalization, and translate it into an analysis. (ii) To teach students how to reason critically about phonological theories and pursue their consequences. This is a prerequisite to the transition from student to researcher. (iii) to provide a grounding in prosodic phonology, focusing on syllable structure and stress.