Linguistics 696b Syllabus

General

The seminar focuses on “stress in weird contexts”, e.g. poetry, song, games, loan words, morphosyntactic restrictions, etc. The readings will focus on the first three. Also, we interpret stress broadly to include tone and intonation.

Instructor

Name: Mike Hammond Email: hammond at u dot arizona dot edu Office: Douglass 308 Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-11:00 and by appointment

Text

Fabb, Nigel and Morris Halle (2008) Meter in poetry: a new theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Requirements

Abstract: 10% RoughDraft: 10% Presentation #1: 10% Presentation #2: 10% Final paper: 60% Folks should speak to me directly about how to coordinate course requirements with dissertations and prelims.

1 Schedule Week Date Topic Reading Due 1 8/26 Background Hammond (to appear) 2 9/2 General Hammond (1990); Gil (1978) 3 9/9 Fixed meter Fabb and Halle (2008, ch.1) 4 9/16 Loose meter Fabb and Halle (2008, chs.2-3) 5 9/23 Meter Hanson and Kiparsky (1997) 6 9/30 Games Bagemihl (1989) 7 10/7 Games McCarthy (1982) 8 10/14 Song Hayes and MacEachern (1998) 9 10/21 Song Dell and Halle (in press) Hayes (2005) 10 10/28 Cynghanedd TBA Abstract 11 11/4 TBA TBA 12 11/11 No class 13 11/18 Presentations #1 14 11/25 No class 15 12/2 TBA TBA Draft 16 12/9 Presentations #2 17 12/16 No class Paper

Readings are to be done before class on the day of the week for which they are listed. Be aware that due dates are real.

Final Paper

All requirements are with respect to your final paper. The point is so that this paper is as good as it can be, leading to a nice prelim topic, a conference paper or publication, a dissertation chapter, and great personal satisfaction on your part. Acceptable paper topics include pretty much anything dealing with stress in weird places, construed broadly. What I’m looking for is that your paper responds to the readings and discussion in the course. All methodologies are fine, e.g. traditional phonology, phonetics, fieldwork, computational, syntax, morphology, etc. You should definitely discuss the topic with me before getting into it though!

2 References

Bagemihl, Bruce. 1989. The Crossing Constraint and backwards languages. Nat- ural Language and Linguistic Theory 7:481–549.

Botne, Robert, and Stuart Davis. 2000. Language games, segment imposition, and the syllable. Studies in Language 24:319–344.

Dell, Franc¸ois, and John Halle. in press. Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs. In Towards a typology of poetic forms, ed. Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo, 63–78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Fabb, Nigel, and Morris Halle. 2008. Meter in poetry: a new theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gil, David. 1978. Haiofet ben zona: Hebrew soccer cheers and jeers. Maledicta 2:129–145.

Hammond, Michael. 1990. The ‘name game’ and onset simplification. Phonology 7:159–162.

Hammond, Michael. 2006. Anapests and anti-resolution. In Formal approaches to poetry: Recent developments in metrics, ed. Elan Dresher and Nila Friedberg, 93–110. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hammond, Michael. to appear. The foot. In Companion to phonology, ed. Colin Ewen, Beth Hume, and Marc van Ostendorp. Wiley-Blackwell.

Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. 1997. A parametric theory of poetic meter. Language 72:287–335.

Hayes, Bruce. 2001. Faithfulness and componentiality in metrics. To appear.

Hayes, Bruce. 2005. Textsetting as constraint conflict. In Towards a typology of poetic forms, ed. Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo. Amsterdam: Elsevier. To appear.

Hayes, Bruce, and Margaret MacEachern. 1998. Folk verse form in English. Lan- guage 74:473–507.

McCarthy, J. 1982. Prosodic structure and expletive infixation. Language 58:574– 590.

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