? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : PPL-3-ATPTCP-LI

A sketch of the main trends in 20th century phonology, covering developments in the notion of the phoneme, the notion of the feature, and the place of morphophonemics and phonetics in phonology.

? Pre-requisites : Honours Foundation: Phonology and Phonetics Please note: Full year visiting and exchange students who wish to take this course must take the above pre-requisite course in Semester 1. This course also requires Linguistics 2 or equivalent.

Home subject area

Language Sciences, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 9 weeks

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Monday 14:00 14:50 Central Lecture Thursday 14:00 14:50 Central

After the course students should be able to think critically about the theoretical foundations of certain concepts with which they have been broadly familiar since the beginning of their studies; understand the generative critique of classical phoneme theory and the "abstractness controversy"; and understand the context of the development of Optimality Theory and Laboratory Phonology.

Essay (50%) and final exam (50%)

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Rosemary Perks
Tel : (0131 6)50 3961
Email : v1rperks@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Bob Ladd
Tel : (0131 6)50 3950
Email : bob@ling.ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/