| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Geographical Variation |
| 2 | Regional Accents - Transcription | |
| 3 | Overview of Accent Variation in the USA | |
| 4 | Speech Acoustics | Phonetic transcription exercise due |
| 5 | Acoustic Analysis of Speech | "Your vowels" exercise due |
| Sound Change as a Source of Variation I: Regularity of Sound Change |
| 6 | What Are the Units of Sound Change? | |
| 7 | Regular Sound Change vs. Lexical Diffusion (I) | |
| 8 | Regular Sound Change vs. Lexical Diffusion (II) | Short paper 1 due: What is /æ/-tensing? |
| Sound Change as a Source of Variation II: Age-Related Variation |
| 9 | Age-Related Variation | |
| Sound Change as a Source of Variation III: Social Variation |
| 10 | Social Variation | |
| Variation within the Individual, Stable Variation |
| 11 | Variation within the Individual | |
| 12 | The Role of the Listener in Sound Change | Short paper 2 due: Lexical diffusion |
| The Mechanisms of Sound Change I: Phonetic Conditioning |
| 13 | Phonetic Conditioning of Sound Change | Discuss final paper topic with Prof. Flemming |
| 14 | An Exemplar-Based Model of Sound Change | |
| 15 | Phonetic Grammar and Gradual Change | |
| 16 | Stability and Change | |
| 17 | Sound Change and Fashion | Short paper 3 due: Computational models of sound change |
| The Mechanisms of Sound Change II: Grammatical Conditioning |
| 18 | Morphological Conditioning | |
| 19 | Chain Shifts | |
| 20 | Chain Shifts (cont'd) | |
| The Comparative Method |
| 21 | The Comparative Method: Introduction | Draft of final paper due |
| 22 | The Comparative Method: Grouping Languages, Cladistics | |
| In-Class Presentations |
| 23 | Presentations | |
| 24 | Presentations | |
| Syntactic Change |
| 25 | Word Order Change in Old English | |
| 26 | Syntactic Change II | Final paper due |
