These are the class handouts from an undergraduate course I taught at Princeton in Fall 2019 (LIN 210). Email me if you're interested in any of the other materials.

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• Syllabus  Course syllabus 

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• Class-1   What is language change?

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• Class-2  Phonetics and the IPA

• Class-3  Phonological Features and Syllables

• Class-4  Phonemes, Allophones, and Phonological Rules

• Class-5  Phonology Exercises

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• Class-6  Types of sound changes and phonological processes

• Class-7  Types of sound changes and phonological processes (continued)

• Class-8  Splits, Mergers, and Relative Chronology

• Class-9  Relative Chronology, Rule Ordering, and Chain Shifts

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• Class-10  The Comparative Method 1

• Class-11   The Comparative Method 2

• Class-12  The Comparative Method 3

• Class-13  Internal Reconstruction

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• Class-14  Sound Change and Analogy

• Class-15  Analogy and Morphological Change

• Class-16  Morphological Change 1

• Class-17  Morphological Change 2

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• Class-18  Languages of the World

• Class-19  Borrowing

• Class-20  Models of language change, contact, and variation

• Class-21  American Isoglosses

• Class-22  Sprachbunds