Today we went over the principles of allophony and sound system organization. Here’s the relevant stuff:

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Distinctive Features Chart
• Natlang, Conlang, or Gibberish? (Phonology Edition)

Links

• Resources for Typing iPA
• The Lands of Ice and Fire
• The Kēlen Language by Sylvia Sotomayor

Assignments

Reading

• AoLI Chapter 1, pp. 61-66
• AoLI Chapter 1, pp. 79-87 (Optional)
• AoLI Chapter 3, pp. 163-178

Practice

• Find a natlang phonology on Wikipedia and post a link to it on Slack in the #phonology channel, along with a sentence or two explaining what’s interesting about it.
• Select your region from The Lands of Ice and Fire and post it on Slack. You can change your mind, but have one selected by the beginning of our next class period. (As a reminder, students can do the same one! This will just mean that you’ll have two variants arising from the same source!)

Mastery

• (None Today)

Backburner

• Take a look at the first section of your final project, and start thinking about questions you have on it.