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Optimality Theory Syllabus |
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Course Outline |
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Linguistics 795 |
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Day |
Reading |
Assignment |
Lecture |
Background |
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| Mon Jan 24 | reading: Kager, Ch. 1 and 2. | assignment: Kager: Exercise 1 at the end of Ch. 1, Exercises 1,3 at the end of Ch. 2; | lecture: Conspiracies, constraints , markedness and faithfulness | ||
| Mon Jan 31 | reading: Doing OT (McCarthy). Chap 2.3-2.10 [But skip 2.9 for now] | Doing OT (McCarthy) assignment: p. 40: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9; pp. 51,52: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 | lecture: Typologies. | ||
| Mon Feb 07 | reading: OT (Kager). Intro (Chapter 1) OT (Kager) (Chapter 2). Doing OT (McCarthy) 2.12 [Skipping 2.11 for now] | Doing OT (McCarthy) assignment: p. 64 : 16, 17, 18; pp. 71, 72: 19, 20; | lecture: Theoretical issues | ||
| Mon Feb 14 | reading: OT (Kager) (Chapter 3). | Doing OT (McCarthy) assignment: p. 80: 21, 22; p. 87: 25, 26; p. 94: 27, 28, 29; pp 105,6: 34; | background Dutch voicing Japanese velars |
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| Mon Feb 21 | reading: Prince and Smolensky (2004: 10-38) Part 1, Sections 2 & 3; Prince and Smolensky (2004: 103-202) Part2. | Doing OT (McCarthy) assignment: p 95: 30; pp. 132-134: 41, 42, 43 | Lecture: Syllabification. Berber and others. | ||
| Mon Feb 28 | Readings: Kager (372-400, Chapter 9). Roca's intro to Roca (1997). For further readings see reading list. | Doing OT (McCarthy) assignment: Exercises 1 and 2, p. 141. | Lecture: Opacity. | ||
| Mon Mar 07 | Readings: McCarthy (95-103, 2.9); Kager (341-371, Ch. 8); Bresnan (2000) | Lecture: Syntax. | |||
| Mon Mar 14 | Readings: Grimshaw (1997); Legendre et al (1998); Legendre (2001) | Lecture: Wh Movement. | |||
| Mon Mar 21 | Readings: Wilson (2001); Speas (2001) | assignment: 2 page paper outline due with preliminary Bibliography | Lecture: Anaphora. | ||
| Mon Mar 28 | H'day | H'day | H'day | H'day | H'day |
| Mon Apr 04 | Readings: Grimshaw (2001); Anderson (2002); Legendre (2002) | Lecture: Clitics. | |||
| Mon Apr 11 | readings: Aissen (1999); Legendre et al (1993); Woolford (2001); | assignment: 5 page paper preview due with data and example discussion (no lit reviews, please!) | Lecture: Case/voice . | Student presentations I | |
| Mon Apr 18 | readings: Sells (2001a); Aissen (2003) | Lecture: Case/voice (ctd) | Student presentations II | ||
| Mon Apr 25 | reading: Kager (296-340; Chapter 7). Tesar and Smolensky (1998) Short version. Riggle (2002), Goldwater and Johnson 2003, | Lecture: Learnability. | Student presentations III | ||
| Mon May 02 | readings: Boersma and Hayes (2001), Prince aqnd Tesar (2004), Jarosz (2006) | Lecture: Learnability | |||
| Mon May 09 | readings: Hammond (1997), Ellison (1994), Karttunen (1998), Gerdemann and van Noord (2000) | Lecture: Computation: Finite State models |