This paper is available for the academic year 2024-25.
This paper provides an introduction to classic and current research on the word-internal structure of human languages. It builds on the introductory lectures in Li1 (Sounds and Words), but can also function as a stand-alone survey of phonology and morphology for students with suitable linguistics backgrounds who are borrowing the paper into approved Triposes such as MMLL and AMES.
Michaelmas Term
Li7.1 Autosegments
Li7.2 Feature geometry
Li7.3 Harmony
Li7.4 Underspecification
Li7.5 External evidence
Li7.6 Natural Phonology and Optimality Theory
Li7.7 Evolutionary Phonology, Emergent Feature Theory, and Substance-Free Phonology
Li7.8 Lexical Phonology
Lent Term
Li7.9 Prosodic Morphology
Li7.10 Inflection and derivation
Li7.11 Psychomorphology and neuromorphology
Li7.12 Acquisition of morphology
Li7.13 Productivity and regularity
Li7.14 Blocking
Li7.15 Distributed Morphology and Word and Paradigm Morphology
Li7.16 Theory comparision (with special reference to prosodically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy)
- Berent, Iris. 2013. The phonological mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Clark, John Ellery, Colin Yallop, and Janet Fletcher. 2007. An introduction to phonetics and phonology, third edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Kenstowicz, Michael, and Charles Kisseberth. 1986. Generative phonology: Description and theory. Emerald Group Publishing.
16 one-hour lectures, 8 one-hour practical sessions, 8 one-hour supervisions.
The paper's Moodle site can be found here.
Assessment will be a take home coursework assessment:
Three essays to be submitted online during the exam period (each essay should be no more than 1500 words). Each answer contributes a third of the total mark.
Bert Vaux |
