A mural of Noam Chomsky. His and Morris Halle's 1968 book The Sound Pattern of English has been very influential in both the field of phonology and in the analysis of the English language. (Image courtesy of TaylorBell* on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Michael Kenstowicz
MIT Course Number
24.961
As Taught In
Fall 2014
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course serves as an introduction to the current research questions in phonological theory. Topics include metrical and prosodic structure, features and their phonetic basis in speech, acquisition and parsing, phonological domains, morphology, and language change and reconstruction. Activities include problem solving, squibs, and data collection.
