INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY

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Four credit hours equivalency for the profesor. Study of phonological structures in natural languages using formal methods. Description, classification and representation of articulate sounds, prosodic structures and distinctive features. Formulation of phonological rules and ordering relations, feature geometry, tone, intonation, and metrical stress. Data analysis for the identification of phonological patterns and processes in segments and suprasegmentals through the application of recent generative phonological theories.