LING 6011 - Formal Phonology

An introduction to modern phonological theory with an emphasis on constraint-based formalisms. The course examines state-of-the-art analyses of phonological phenomena such as syllabification, prosodic morphology, segmental phonology, opacity, metrical phonology, and conspiracies. Theoretical concerns that have driven research on these topics are also addressed, such as factorial typologies, positional faithfulness and markedness, serialism versus parallelism, and rules versus constraints.