William Idsardi
idsardi@umd.edu
301-405-8376
http://www.ling.umd.edu/~idsardi/
I'm usually on campus Tuesday - Thursday.
We will take a broad view on phonology (the mental model of speech sounds), including perspectives from:
Following Jeff Hawkins (On Intelligence) we will exmaine to what extent phonology obeys his four conjectures about the neocortex:
Following Poeppel et al, we will pursue models based on:
Tuesdays, 2-5, MMH 1108B
All readings will be in the pdf locker under LING621
| Month | Day | Topics | Readings | |
| January | 30 | Introduction | No readings | |
| February | 6 | Critical Intro to Phonology | Silverman ch 1, 2 | |
| February | 13 | Silverman ch 3, 4 | ||
| February | 20 | Introduction | Silverman ch 5, 6 | |
| February | 27 | L'enfer, c'est les autres | Silverman ch 7 | Project proposals |
| March | 6 | Phonetics | Silverman appendix, Kent et al | |
| March | 13 | Allophony | Harris, Peperkamp et al | |
| March | 20 | Spring break | No readings | |
| March | 27 | Speech perception, ASR | Diehl et al, Lahiri and Reetz | |
| April | 3 | Vowels 1 | Eulitz et al, Rosner and Pickering | |
| April | 10 | Vowels 2: inventories and magnet effects | Kuhl et al 1992, Iverson and Kuhl 1995, Hacquard et al 2006 | |
| April | 17 | VOT | Lisker and Abramson, Phillips et al, Horev et al | |
| April | 24 | Nasals | Espy-Wilson et al, Flagg et al | |
| May | 1 | Presentations | No readings | |
| May | 8 | Presentations | No readings |