schedule

  1. 2025-02-12 generalities about the course; the short stressed vowels of English (i e a o ə u) and their spelling; the put–strut split, want words, love words
  2. 2025-02-19 some minor letter-to-sound correspondences (many, pretty, wolf, bury, busy); the diphthongs (ij ej aj oj əw uw aw), the spelling of diphthongs; digraphs
  3. 2025-02-26 “nondigraphs”; rhotic and nonrhotic accents of English, compensatory lengthening, the (first) nurse merger; the long vowel counterparts of short vowels, the long vowel counterparts of (some) diphthongs
  4. 2025-03-05 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; the vowels that occur in unstressed position (i ə u ij əw uw)
  5. 2025-03-12 [test 1] the distribution of the vowels occurring in unstressed position; the Rhythm Rule, stress and accent
  6. 2025-03-19 stress patterns, syncope and flapping as symptoms of stress; the distribution of yod after consonants
  7. 2025-03-26 cancelled
  8. 2025-04-02 palatalization; the distribution of nasal+plosive clusters; the distribution of clear and dark l
  9. 2025-04-09 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
  10. 2025-04-16 spring break
  11. 2025-04-23 [test 2] checked vowel in free graphic position: laxing endings, trisyllabic laxing, free-U laxing
  12. 2025-04-30 CiV laxing, other vowel letters before CiV; the regularity of U, (ir)regularity is relative
  13. 2025-05-07
  14. 2025-05-14 [test 3]
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