Seminar in Interlanguage Phonology

Schedule of Discussion Topics

Week One

Introduction to the seminar.
The nature of interlanguage.

• Read: Chpt. 1 of Foreign Accent; Chpts. 1 and 2 of Second Language Phonology; Lakshmanan & Selinker, 2001, Selinker, 1972.

Universal grammar.

• Read: Hawkins, 2001.

Week Two

Variation.

• Read: Chpt. 3 in Foreign Accent; Beebe, 1980; Carlisle, 1991a; Dickerson, L., 1975; Dickerson, W,, 1977; Lin, 2001; Preston, 1996; Sato, 1985.

Week Three

Transfer.

• Read: Chpt. 2 in Foreign Accent; Chpt. 4 of Second Language Phonology; Broselow, 1983, 1984; Flege & Davidian, 1984; Hancin-Bhatt, 1994;

Week Four

Evaluating research.

• Read: Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, 2002; Rebello, 1997.

Week Five

Markedness.

• Read: Carlisle, 1988; Eckman, 1977, 1981, 1985; Greenberg, 1978;

Week Six

Syllable structure universals.

• Read: Chpt. 5 of Second Language Phonology; Carlisle, 2001; Clements, 1990; Vennemann, 1988.

Week Seven

CV syllables.

• Read:Benson, 1988; Hodne; 1985; Riney, 1990; Sato, 1984; Tarone, 1980;

Week Eight

Onsets.

• Read: Abrahamsson, 1999; Anderson, 1987; Carlisle, 1988; 1991b, 1997;
  Eckman, 1991; Eckman & Iverson, 1993; Major, 1996a.

Codas.

• Read: Abrahamsson, 2003a, 2003b; Anderson, 1987; Eckman, 1987 & 1991;
  Hancin-Bhatt, 2000; Hansen, 2001; Weinberger, 1987.

The Critical Period Hypothesis.

• Read: Flege, 1987a, 1991; Flege, Munro, & MacKay, 1995;
  Major, 1997a; Patkowski, 1990, 1994; Riney, 1990

Week Eleven

Acquisition over time.

• Read: Chpt. 7 of Second Language Phonology; Abrahamsson, 1999 & 2003a; Carlisle 1998 & 2002.

Week Twelve

The ontogeny phyologeny model.

• Read: Chpts. 4 and 5 in Foreign Accent; Chpts. 3, 6, and 8 of Second Language Phonology.

Syllabus for seminar