schedule

1. 2024-09-11 generalities about the course; the short stressed vowels of English (i e a o ə u) and their spelling; the put–strut split
2. 2024-09-18 want words, love words, some minor letter-to-sound correspondences (many, pretty, wolf, bury, busy); the spelling of diphthongs, digraphs
3. 2024-09-25 “nondigraphs”; rhotic and nonrhotic accents of English, compensatory lengthening, the (first) nurse merger, the force–north merger; the long vowel counterparts of short vowels, the long vowel counterparts of (some) diphthongs
4. 2024-10-02 the development of the system of long vowels, mergers (north–force, cure–force, cure–nurse) and a split (cure–poor); the distribution of vowels, a phonological categorization: checked, R, and free vowels
5. 2024-10-09 no class
6. 2024-10-16 [test 1] short–long, diphthong–long vowel relations, the vowels occurring in unstressed position (i ə u ij əw uw)
7. 2024-10-23 holiday
8. 2024-10-30 autumn break
9. 2024-11-06 stress patterns, the Rhythm Rule; the distribution of nasal+plosive clusters in English; the distribution of yod after consonants, palatalization
10. 2024-11-13 carrot words, spelling disambiguated by word boundary: marry vs. starry; diphthongs before r (*ejr, *əwr, *ijr, *uwr vs ajr, awr (ojr)); graphic positions, consonant digraphs, X, stop+liquid clusters
11. 2024-11-20 [test 2] checked vowel in free graphic position: laxing endings, trisyllabic laxing, free-U laxing, CiV laxing, other vowel letters before CiV; the regularity of U
12. 2024-11-27
13. 2024-12-04
14. 2024-12-11 [test 3]