Department of Communicative Disorders
Ph.D. in Applied Language and
Speech Sciences
CODI 611
Advanced Topics: Clinical Phonology
Dr Martin J. Ball, Hawthorne-BoRSF Distinguished Professor II
This course is designed as a seminar series in advanced phonological theory,
especially as applied to clinical data. There has been a great increase in
developments in phonology over the last 20 years or so, and doctoral level
students need to be up-to-date in these approaches. This course will take you
from the beginnings of generative phonology through to current work in a range
of theories.
The course does require a fair amount of reading by students: the required readings are set out in the schedule below. All required reading materials will be provided as handouts at the beginning of the semester. It is expected that each assigned reading will be presented by one class member, with discussion involving the whole class. Students will submit two of their reviews (of their choice) to go towards the assessment for the course.
The assessment will consist of two reviews, carrying 30% weighting, and a written paper carrying 70%. Topics for the written paper will be decided between the student and the course tutor during the semester. Papers will be presented in class in the final week of teaching and submitted at the end of that week.
Points will be deducted for all assignments that are turned in late unless
the student presents a written excuse that is acceptable
to the tutor. Letter grades will be assigned using the following
percentage scale:
91 - 100 - A
82 - 90 - B
73 - 81 - C
65 - 72 - D
Below 65 - F
SCHEDULE
Required readings are listed below; references in square brackets are for background texts. Week 1 has background reading only.
Week 1 Introduction and background
a) Phonetics vs Phonology: [Ball & Kent 1997]
b) Features, rules, syllables: [Carr 1993]
Week 2 Distinctive Features
a) Katamba (1989) Chap 3 [Chomsky & Halle 1968]
b) Grunwell (1982) Chap 5 [Ingram 1997]
Week 3 Generative Phonological Rules
a) Katamba (1989) Chap 7 [Chomsky & Halle 1968]
b) Grunwell (1982) Chap 6 [Ingram 1997]
Week 4 Non-linear Phonologies - 1
a) Feature Geometry: Clements (1985)
b) Underspecification: Archangeli (1988)
Week 5 Non-linear Phonologies - 2
a) Autosegmental phonology: Goldsmith (1990) Chap 1 [Carr 1993]
b) Metrical phonology: Goldsmith (1990) Chap 4 [Carr 1993]
Week 6 Non-linear Phonologies - 3 Clinical applications
a) Bernhardt & Gilbert (1992); Dinnsen (1997)
b) Bernhardt (1992a, 1992b)
Week 7
Week 8 Sonority Theory
a) Christman (1992) Yavas & Core (2001)
b) Code & Ball (1994); Code, Ball & Chung (2001)
Week 9 Natural Phonology
a) Donegan & Stampe (1979)
b) Grunwell (1992a); Grunwell (1997)
Week 10 Optimality Theory
a) Archangeli & Langendoen (1997) Chap 1 [Chap 2]
b) Bernhardt & Stemberger (1998), Chap 4, Stemberger & Bernhardt
(1997)
Week 11 Gestural Phonology
a) Browman & Goldstein (1986); Browman & Goldstein (1992)
b) Weismer, Tjaden & Kent (1995); Kent (1997)
Week 12 Government Phonology
a) Harris and Lindsey (1995); Harris and Lindsey (2000)
b) Harris, Watson and Bates (1999); Ball (2001)
Week 13 Cognitive Phonology
chapters from Bybee (2001)
Week 14
Week 15 Presentations
Ball, M. J., Müller, N. & Rutter, B. (2007) Phonology
for Communication Disorders.
Ball, M. J. and Kent, R. D. (Eds.) (1997) The New
Phonologies.
Katamba, F. (1989) An Introduction to Phonology.
Grunwell, P. (1982) Clinical Phonology. 2nd edition.
Clements, G. (1985) The geometry of phonological features. Phonology Yearbook, 2, 225-252.
Archangeli, D. (1988) Aspects of underspecification theory. Phonology, 5, 183-207.
Goldsmith, J. (1990) Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology.
Bernhardt, B. and Gilbert, J. (1992) Applying linguistic theory to speech-language pathology: the case for non-linear phonology. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 6, 123-145.
Dinnsen, D. (1997) Nonsegmental phonologies. In M.
J. Ball and R. D. Kent (Eds.) The New Phonologies (pp.
77-125).
Bernhardt, B. (1992a) Developmental implications of nonlinear phonological theory. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 6, 259-281.
Bernhardt, B. (1992b) The application of nonlinear phonological theory to intervention with one phonologically disordered child. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 6, 283-316.
Christman, S. (1992) Abstruse neologism formation: parallel processing revisited. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 6, 65-76.
Yavas, M. and Core, C. (2001) Phonemic awareness of coda consonants and sonority in bilingual children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 15, 35-39.
Code, C. and Ball, M. J. (1994) Syllabification in aphasic recurring utterances: contributions of Sonority Theory. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 8, 257-65.
Code, C., Ball, M. J. and Chung, K. (2001) Speech automatisms in Cantonese. Ms.
Donegan, P. and Stampe, D. (1979) The study of
Natural Phonology. In D. Dinnsen (Ed.), Current Approaches to Phonological
Theory (pp. 126-173).
Grunwell, P. (1992a) Assessment of child phonology in the clinical context.
In C. Ferguson, L. Menn and C. Stoel-Gammon (Eds.), Phonological Development:
Models, Research, Implications (pp. 457-483).
Grunwell, P. (1997) Natural phonology. In M. J.
Ball and R. D. Kent (Eds.) The New Phonologies (pp.
35-75).
Archangeli, D. and Langendoen, T. (1997) Optimality
Theory. An Overview.
Bernhardt, B. and Stemberger, P. (1998) Handbook of Phonological
Development.
Stemberger, J. and Bernhardt, B. (1997) Optimality Theory. In M. J. Ball and
R. D. Kent (Eds.) The New Phonologies (pp. 211-245).
Browman, C. and Goldstein, L. (1986) Towards an articulatory phonology. Phonology Yearbook, 3, 219-252.
Browman, C. and Goldstein, L. (1992) Articulatory phonology: an overview. Phonetica, 49, 155-180.
Weismer, G., Tjaden, T. and
Harris, J., and Lindsey, G. (1995) The elements of
phonological representation. In J. Durand and F. Katamba (Eds.), Frontiers of
Phonology (pp. 34-79).
Harris, J., and Lindsey, G. (2000) Vowel patterns in sound
and mind. In N. Burton-Roberts, P. Carr and G. Docherty (Eds.),
Phonological Knowledge, Conceptual and Empirical Issues (pp. 185-205).
Harris, J., Watson, J. and Bates, S. (1999) Prosody and melody in vowel disorder. Journal of Linguistics, 35, 489-525.
Ball, M. J. (2001) Clinical phonology of vowel disorders.
In M. J. Ball and F. Gibbon (Eds.), Vowels and Vowel
Disorders.
Bybee, J. (2001) Phonology and Language Use.
Background
Texts & Readings
Ball, M. J. and Kent, R. D. (1997) Phonetics for clinical phonologies. In M.
J. Ball and R. D. Kent (Eds.) The New Phonologies (pp.
1-6).
Carr, P. (1993) Phonology.
Chomsky, N. and
Ingram, D. (1997) Generative Phonology. In M. J. Ball and R. D. Kent (Eds.) The New Phonologies (pp. 7-33).