The Phonology of English
Stuart Davis, Indiana University
The lectures on English phonology will center on a very
limited number of issues related mainly to syllable
structure and footing.
Lecture 1:
The following topics will be covered: Brief discussion of
earlier works on English phonology, phoneme inventory and
certain issues arising from it, s-plus-obstruent clusters,
the on-glide asymmetry; foot-based phonolgy in American
English
Lecture 2:
On the distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American
English (with a discussion of devoicing in Pennsylavania
Deutchified English) – a prosodic alignment
perspective
Lecture 3:
The split margin approach to the syllable as applied to
English onset clusters and syllable contact sequences
Lecture 4 [guest lecture by Karen Baertsch]:
On-glides, off-glides, hiatus under the split margin
approach.