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Language and Its Structure I: Phonology
Art: Raphael, Italian: Scuola di AteneThe School of Athenstitle…, 1509 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Michael Kenstowicz
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate, Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 53 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.901 Language and Its Structure I: Phonology, Fall 2010, Prof. Michael Kenstowicz — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
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How this course was organized
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- A lecture sequence of 23 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Lecture Notes
23 files
- Lecture 09 Download
- Lecture 1 · Introduction, course overview, vowels: articulatory description and transcription Download
- Lecture 2-3 · Consonants: articulatory description and transcription; distinctive features Download
- Lecture 4 · Phonological versus phonetic representations Download
- Lecture 5 · Alternations and derivations I Download
- Lecture 6 · Alternations and derivations II Download
- Lecture 7 · Constraints Download
- Lecture 8 · Phonetics I: acoustics of vowels, using Praat Download
- Lecture 10 · Phonetics III: suprasegmentals Download
- Lecture 11 · Feature geometry Download
- Lecture 13 · Sociolinguistic variables Download
- Lecture 14 · American English dialects Download
- Lecture 15 · Tone I: African languages Download
- Lecture 16 · Tone II: Asian languages Download
- Lecture 17 · Tone III: intonation and phrasing Download
- Lecture 18 · Syllables I: structure and syllabification Download
- Lecture 19 · Syllables II: sonority Download
- Lecture 20 · Stress I: prominence Download
- Lecture 21 · Stress II: rhythm Download
- Lecture 22 · Stress III: weight Download
- Lecture 23 · Prosodic morphology: reduplication and truncation Download
- Lecture 24 · Loanword phonology Download
- Lecture 25 · Review Download
Assignments
Study Materials
25 files
- Spanish · Audio files Download
- Thai vowels · Audio files Download
- French-Korean · Audio files Download
- English consonants · Audio files Download
- Finnish ‘muta’ · Audio files Download
- Finnish ‘kansa’ · Audio files Download
- Yoruba · Audio files Download
- Japanese ‘hato—hatto’ · Audio files Download
- Japanese ‘seken’ · Audio files Download
- Japanese ‘shuchoo’ · Audio files Download
- Japanese ‘kasai’ · Audio files Download
- Japanese ‘sama-kana-gakusha’ · Audio files Download
- Sindhi ‘b’ implosive · Audio files Download
- Sindhi ‘b’ · Audio files Download
- Sindhi ‘p’ · Audio files Download
- Sindhi ‘ph’ · Audio files Download
- Sindhi ‘bh’ · Audio files Download
- Xhosa dental click · Audio files Download
- Xhosa alveolar click · Audio files Download
- Xhosa lateral click · Audio files Download
- Thai tones 21 · Audio files Download
- Thai tones 51 · Audio files Download
- Thai tones 45 · Audio files Download
- Thai tones 214 · Audio files Download
- Thai tones 32 · Audio files Download
Course outline
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Lecture 4: Phonological versus phonetic representations
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Lecture 5: Alternations and derivations I
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Lecture 6: Alternations and derivations II
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Lecture 7: Constraints
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Lecture 8: Phonetics I: Acoustics of vowels, using Praat
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Lecture 9: Phonetics II: Acoustics of consonants
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Lecture 10: Phonetics III: Suprasegmentals
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Lecture 11: Feature geometry
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Lecture 12: Course review
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Lecture 13: Sociolinguistic variables
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Lecture 14: American English dialects
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Lecture 15: Tone I: African languages
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Lecture 16: Tone II: Asian languages
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Lecture 17: Tone III: Intonation and phrasing
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Lecture 18: Syllables I: Structure and syllabification
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Lecture 19: Syllables II: Sonority
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Lecture 20: Stress I: Prominence
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Lecture 21: Stress II: Rhythm
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Lecture 22: Stress III: Weight
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Lecture 23: Prosodic morphology: Reduplication and truncation
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Lecture 24: Loanword phonology
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Lecture 25: Review
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Michael Kenstowicz, 24.901 Language and Its Structure I: Phonology, Fall 2010.
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