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. Relevant chapters from Ball, Müller & Rutter (2008) may also be read for each week.
Week 1 Introduction and background August
25
a) Phonetics vs Phonology: [Ball & Kent
1997]
b) Features, rules, syllables: [Carr 1993]
Week 2 Labor Day
September 1
Week 3 Distinctive Features September
8
a) Katamba (1989) Chap 3 [Chomsky & Halle 1968]
b) Grunwell (1982) Chap 5 [Ingram 1997]
Week 4 Generative Phonological Rules September 15
a) Katamba (1989) Chap 7 [Chomsky & Halle 1968]
b) Grunwell (1982) Chap 6 [Ingram 1997]
Week 5 Non-linear Phonologies - 1 September 22
a) Feature Geometry: Clements (1985)
b) Underspecification: Archangeli
(1988)
Week 6 Non-linear Phonologies - 2 September 29
a) Autosegmental phonology: Goldsmith (1990)
Chap 1 [Carr 1993]
b) Metrical phonology: Goldsmith (1990) Chap 4 [Carr 1993]
Week 7 Non-linear Phonologies - 3 Clinical applications October 6
a) Bernhardt & Gilbert (1992); Dinnsen
(1997)
b) Bernhardt (1992a, 1992b)
Week 8 Sonority Theory October 13
a) Christman (1992) Yavas
& Core (2001)
b) Code & Ball (1994); Code, Ball & Chung (2001)
Week 9 Natural Phonology October 20
a) Donegan & Stampe
(1979)
b) Grunwell (1992a); Grunwell
(1997)
Week 10 Optimality Theory October 27
a) Archangeli & Langendoen
(1997) Chap 1 [Chap 2]
b) Bernhardt & Stemberger (1998), Chap 4, Stemberger & Bernhardt (1997)
Week 11 Gestural Phonology November 3
a) Browman & Goldstein (1986); Browman & Goldstein (1992)
b) Weismer, Tjaden
& Kent (1995);
Week 12 Government Phonology November 10
a) Harris and Lindsey (1995); Harris and Lindsey (2000)
b) Harris, Watson and Bates (1999); Ball (2001)
Week 13 Cognitive Phonology November 17
chapters from Bybee (2001)
Week 14
Week 15 Presentations 1 December
Ball, M. J., Müller, N. & Rutter, B. (2008) Phonology for Communication Disorders. Hove: Psychology Press.
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).