Historical and Comparative Linguistics
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
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Class-3 Phonological Features and Syllables
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Class-4 Phonemes, Allophones, and Phonological Rules
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Class-5 Phonology Exercises
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Class-6 Types of sound changes and phonological processes
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Class-7 Types of sound changes and phonological processes (continued)
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Class-8 Splits, Mergers, and Relative Chronology
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Class-9 Relative Chronology, Rule Ordering, and Chain Shifts
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Class-10 The Comparative Method 1
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Class-11 The Comparative Method 2
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Class-12 The Comparative Method 3
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Class-13 Internal Reconstruction
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Class-14 Sound Change and Analogy
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Class-15 Analogy and Morphological Change
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Class-16 Morphological Change 1
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Class-17 Morphological Change 2