LIGN215 – Variation in phonetics and phonology
Spring Quarter 2005
Instructor: Amalia
Arvaniti
SCHEDULE AND READINGS
WEEK 1
3/28: No reading
3/30: Introduction:
the scope of variability in speech
Klatt, Dennis, H. 1976. Linguistic uses of segmental
duration in English: acoustic and perceptual evidence. JASA 59(5): 1208-1221.
Docherty, Gerard and Paul Foulkes. 2000. Speaker,
Speech and Knowledge of Sounds. In N. Burton-Roberts, P. Carr and G. Docherty
(eds), Phonological Knoweledge:
Conceptual and Empirical Issues, pp. 105-129. Oxford: OUP.
WEEK 2
4/4: Prosody
Mary Beckman and Jan Edwards. 1994. Articulatory
evidence for differentiating stress categories. In Patricia Keating (ed), Papers in Laboratory Phonology III, pp.
7-33. CUP.
Fougeron, Cécile and Patricia Keating. 1997.
Articulatory strengthening at edges of prosodic constituents. JASA 101: 3728-3740
4/6: Pragmatics and prosody
Dahan, D., Tanenhaus, M. K., Chambers, C. G. 2002.
Accent and reference resolution in spoken language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language 47:
292-314.
WEEK 3
4/11: On
word frequency effects
Juraskfy, Dan, Alan Bell and C. Girand. 2002. The role
of the lemma in form variation. In Carlos Gussenhoven and Natasha Warner (eds),
Laboratory Phonology 7, pp. 3-34.
Mouton de Gruyter.
4/13: Lecture on sociolinguistics sources of
variation
Labov, W. 2003. Some sociolinguistic principles. In
C. Bratt Paulston and G. R. Tucker (eds),
Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings, pp. 234-250. Oxford: Blackwell.
WEEK 4
4/18: Variationist
sociolinguistics
Bayley, Robert. 2002. The quantitative paradigm. In
J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds), The Handbook of Language Variation and
Change, pp. 117-141. Oxford: Blackwell.
Daly, Nicola and Paul Warren. 2001. Pitching it
differently in New Zealand English: Speaker sex and intonation patterns. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5: 85-96.
4/20: Discussion of
student-selected sociolinguistic readings
WEEK 5
4/25: Domains of usage and language change
Milroy, Lesley. 2002. Introduction: Mobility,
contact and language change – Working with contemporary speech communities. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6:3-15.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2002. Communities of Practice. In
J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds), The Handbook of Language Variation and
Change, pp. 526-548. Oxford: Blackwell.
4/27: Discussion
of student-selected sociolinguistic readings
WEEK 6
5/2: Style and social identity
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 2002. Investigating
Stylistic Variation. In J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie
Schilling-Estes (eds), The Handbook of
Language Variation and Change, pp. 375-401. Oxford: Blackwell.
Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2002. Language and Identity.
In J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds), The Handbook of Language Variation and
Change, pp. 475-499. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hay, Jennifer, Stefanie Jannedy, and Norma Mendoza-Denton. 1999. Oprah and /ay/: lexical frequency,
referee design and style. Proceedings of the 14th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco.
Pierrehumbert, Janet, Tessa Bent, Benjamin Munson, Ann R. Bradlow, J.
Michael Bailey. 2004. The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production. JASA 116(4): 1905-1908.
5/4: Phonetic theories of variation
Lindblom, Bjorn. 1990. Explaining phonetic
variation: a sketch of the H&H theory. In William J. Hardcastle and A.
Marchal (eds), Speech Production and
Speech Modelling, pp. 403-439. Kluwer.
Hawkins, Sarah. 2003. Roles and representations of
systematic fine phonetic detail in speech understanding. Journal of Phonetics 31(3-4): 373-406.
WEEK 7
5/9: Probabilistic
modeling
Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2001. Stochastic phonology. Glot 5(6): 1-13.
Jurafsky, Dan. 2003. Probabilistic Modeling in
Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and Production. In Rens Bod,
Jennifer Hay and Stefanie Jannedy (eds), Probabilistic
Linguistics, pp. 39-95. The MIT Press.
5/11: Usage-based models
Bybee, Joan L. 2000. The phonology of the lexicon:
Evidence from lexical diffusion. In Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer (eds), Usage Based Models of Language, pp.
65-85. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
WEEK 8
5/16: Exemplar theories
Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2001. Exemplar dynamics: Word
frequency, lenition and contrast. In Joan Bybee and Paul Hopper (eds), Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic
Structure, pp.137-157. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Coleman, John, 2003. Discovering the acoustic
correlates of phonological contrasts. Journal
of Phonetics 31L 351-372.
5/18: OT treatments of variation (i)
Anttila, Arto. 2002. Morphologically conditioned
phonological alternations. NLLT 20: 1-42.
Flemming, Edward. 2001. Scalar and categorical phenomena in a unified model
of phonetics and phonology. Phonology
18(1): 7-44.
WEEK 9
5/23: OT treatments of variation (ii)
Hayes, Bruce. 2000. Gradient well-formedness in
Optimality Theory. In Joost Dekers, Frank van der Leeuw and Jeroen van de
Weijer (eds), Optimality Theory:
Phonology, Syntax and Acquisition, pp. 88-120. Oxford: OUP.
5/25: Is
phonetics separate from phonology?
Beckman, M. E., Benjamin Munson, Jan Edwards. (to
appear). Vocabulary growth and the developmental expansion of types of
phonological knowledge. Submitted to Laboratory
Phonology 9.
McCarthy, John J. 2003. OT
constraints are categorical. Phonology
20(1): 75-138.
WEEK 10
5/30:
MEMORIAL DAY – NO CLASS
6/1: No
readings; class presentations
EXAM WEEK:SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
(should incorporate
comments given at presentation)