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A substantial body of cross-linguistic empirical documentation of prosodic phenomena has built up over the past few decades. It is ripe for critical examination towards discovering new potential prosodic universals, (re-)evaluating previously proposed ones, and identifying gaps in empirical coverage. These are the tasks of this course, which is also intended to give students hands-on experience with approaching systematic literature reviews, meta-studies, and developing databases. We take an encompassing perspective, with an eye towards bridging work below and above the word level, across areal regions, and across research communities.
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| 09 | Tu 11/03 | NO CLASS: Election day | ||
| Th 11/05 | Lengthening and beyond | ho | Read Katz (2016) for Mo. 11/09 5pm |
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| 10 | Tu 11/10 | Prosodically-conditioned segmental universals | ||
| Th 11/12 |
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| 01 | Tu 09/08 | Intro to prosodic universals | Intro, empirical databases | due Tu 9/15: dig into AUTOTYP, Constituency of Americas or Minimal role of convergence papers/databases. Post docs/code in sandbox directory. |
| Th 09/10 | Digging in | |||
| 02 | Tu 09/15 | Prosodic universals among universals | Digging in reports! | |
| Th 09/17 | Universals intro | All: read Bennett and Elfner (2019) and comment in reading forum by Mo 5pm | ||
| 03 | Tu 09/22 | Prosodic structure universals | Yanran on Vogel (2009) | Read and comment on Jun (2014) chapter by Mo. 09/28, 5pm |
| Th 09/24 | Yifan on Vogel (2019), KY notes | Read and comment on Féry (2010) by Wed 09/30, 5pm | ||
| 04 | Tu 09/29 | Prosodic typology classification | ho | Prep for rhythm classes and prosodic typology debates next week |
| Th 10/01 | Phrase languages in prosodic typology | Jackson Kellogg (BU) guest lecture! (slides) (KY away) | ||
| 05 | Tu 10/06 | Prosodic typology classification (cont'd) | Rhythm classes debate: Grabe and Low (2002), Ramus (2002), Ramus et al. (2003) [Yifan, Aishwarya]; Arvaniti (2009, 2021) [Yanran] | Read Hyman and Monaka (2011), due Mo 10/12 5pm |
| Th 10/08 | Prosodic typology debate: Beckman and Venditti (2010, 2011) [Roger]; Hyman (2006, 2012) [Nawal, Hee] | |||
| 06 | Tu 10/13 | Tonal universals and tone/intonation | Hyman and Monaka (2011) [ho] | |
| Th 10/15 | Roger on Hong Kong English (ho); more on tone/intonation (ho) | Read Gordon (2014) (in readings/w7) for Mo 10/19 5pm |
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| 07 | Tu 10/20 | Prominence and universals | Gordon (2014) (ho) | |
| Th 10/22 | ho | Read Frota (2016) for Mo 5pm 10/26 | ||
| 08 | Tu 10/27 | Intonational melody universals | ho | Read Wightman et al. (1992) in readings/w9 for We 11/04 5pm |
| Th 10/29 | ho | Send me an email about ideas for term project by 11/02 |