Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the course, the students will be able:
• to describe and analyze the basic phonological structures of Greek as well as of other languages,
• to process and manage a wide variety of phonological data,
• to apply specific models of analysis within the generative framework,
• to construct language activities and exercises for (a) teaching Greek as a native language and (b) teaching Greek as a second/foreign language.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Prosodic structure at the interface
week 1&2 Prosodic Phonology: The syllable and the Foot
week 3&4 The Phonological Word (words, clitics, compounds, complex expressions)
week 5 The Phonological Phrase
Stress assignment at the interface
week 6 Introduction: Metrical phonology and interface stress systems
week 7 Morphology-dependent stress: Enriched lexical specifications or parochial constraints? (Spanish, Turkish)
week 8&9 Lexical stress under the Lexical Phonology and Cyclic Phonology frameworks (Sanskrit, Russian, British Columbia Salish)
week 10 Lexical stress and cophonologies (Greek, Hausa)
week 11 Lexical stress and Transderivational Antifaithfulness (Russian)
week 12 Lexical stress and Head Dominance (Greek, Russian)
week 13 Final conclusions & discussion
Keywords
metrical phonology, prosodic phonology, prosodic hierarchy, phonology-morphology interface, phonology-syntax interface