Current Courses
We'll soon be at the end of the semester here in Tromsø, so I don't have any current courses. During the 2002-2003 academic year, I'll be devoting my work time to research. Some courses which I have recently taught are introduced below.


Advanced Phonology Seminar / L391 / E 372 (Fall 2001)

This course is primarily for students who have already completed the first year of graduate study. Our topic this fall is the acquisition of phonology. We meet from 10:15 to 12:00 in room A2016. We try to have some thematic coherence to the group each semester, although really we just want to read recent papers that look interesting to us. For the spring semester of 2001, our seminar focussed on cyclic and lexical phonology (see here for details). In the fall of 2000, we studied Gjert Kristoffersen's book, The Phonology of Norwegian. (See my upcoming review in Phonology.) We have also had empirical themes, such as Semitic phonology, or Fenno-Ugric phonology. If you want to propose a topic for an upcoming semester, we're easily pursuaded.


M.Phil. Program: Phonology seminar (Fall 2001)
co-taught with Ove Lorentz

This course is cross-listed in the English and Linguistics Departments. The course is simultaneously an introduction to the prosody of Germanic languages and an introduction to using Optimality Theory in phonological analysis. Our main empirical focus will be the stress systems and syllable structure properties of English and Norwegian, although we will look at many other languages and phenomena along the way.

The readings for the course will be selections from books and articles, which we will distribute in class. We encourage students to pursue their own interests through material in the library and on the net, especially at the Rutger's Optimality Archive .


Another course I sometimes teach:
Mellomemne (E-290) & Hovedemne (E-390) in Literary Linguistics (Fall 2000)

This course is primarily an offering in the distance program, which will meet four times during the fall semester.

The topic for this seminar is centered around metrical poetry. The course description is currently available. The reading list, as well as expectations of students are included there.

 

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