Linguistics 632
Fall 2020

Louis Goldstein
louisgol@usc.edu

W 2:00-4:20

Syllabus

Zoom link for class

Zoom Recordings

• August 19
• August 26
• Sept 2
• Sept 9

Class Slides, Notes, Materials, Assignments

Dynamics:

• Intro to dynamical systems
• Oscillatory systems
• Logistic Growth
• Lotka-Volterra Model

• Polynomial Systems GUI (polydyn)
• Oscillatory mass-spring scripts
• Lotka-Volterra GUI
• Mambila Downdrift
• Mambila Downdrift and Final Lowering
• Mambila Stochastic Simulations
• Downdrift in Tumbuka v.1
• Bemba figure6
• Bemba figure13
• Embosi
• EmbosiQ (Embosi version 2)
• TaDA (ver 0.982)
• Gesture Dictionary
• Add tones to Coupling Graphs
• Mambila Tone Models
• Add Mambila Tone model to TaDA
• Chichewa Downstep and BT into TaDA

Papers:

• Hyman and Monaka (2011)
• Mambila
• Basaa
• Embosi
• Chichewa and Tumbuka
• Bemba
• Shingazidja
• Liberman and Pierrehumbert (1984)
• Laniran and Clements (2003)
• Myers(1996)
• Zsiga(2020) Slides
• Rialland et al. (2015) Compensatory Lengthening
• Patin(201?) Embosi Boundary Tones. Slides

Slides Spring 2020:

• AP--Looking backward and forward
• Notes on Hyman and Monaka
• Notes on Liberman and Pierrrehumbert (1984)
• Semester Summary: Generalizations and Modeling Thoughts

Slides Fall 2020:

• TaDA Tutorial
• Adding Tones to Coupling Graphs
• Mambila Models
• Yoruba
• Chichewa downstep and BT
• Chichewa downstep and BT
• Embosi Subj1 Rep1 Figures
• Embosi To Do List

Audio & Textgrids:

• Shekgalagari Audio. Words in (4) in different prosodic contexts
• Audio Files for figures in Rialland and Downing
• Embosi Folktale (from Annie Rialland)
• Embosi data from Big Corpus; Tone Tier Adjusted

Language Descriptions (Slides and notes):

• Moro Slides
• Konni Slides
• Akan Slides
• Akan notes Louis
• Akan summary Miran
• Mambila slides and notes
• Mambila Model Slides
• Basaa Slides
• Embosi Slides
• Chichewa Tumbuka Slides
• Mambila Simulation Results
• Bemba Slides
• Embosi Model
• Shingazidja Slides
• Embosi Take 2