Second section

1. Second section Questions? tylerS at stanford dot edu (Tyler Schnoebelen)

2. What we’re up to • Last week • Lexicon • What do you need to keep in your brain to speak a language? • What do you need to know about a word to really say you’ve stored it? • Transcribing sounds • This week • Soundspatterns of sounds (phonology) • Literature • Especially poetry, but let’s see if we can connect some of the phonetics/phonology stuff to it (“sound symbolism”)

3. Talkin fast • Careful Fast • æspərən æsprən • pɔrsələn pɔrslən • næʃənəlajz næʃnəlajz • mεθəd *mεθd • fejməs *fejms

4. Of banannas and gender • In Bananna Musey (Chad), nouns are either masculine or feminine (kind of like Spanish and French). • If I give you a word, will you be able to tell what gender it is just by looking at the ending? • Masculine: • -tlekŋa, njeffã, mullã, ngussã, dlemma, galapma, sukŋa, galaŋŋa • Feminine endings: (not a complete list) • goloŋga, kalamba, tlakka, dugulla, ussa, fatta, vunda, diffa, happa • Problem: Do you really have to memorize each word? • What gender is the word dina (‘dog’)? What about cara (‘woman’)?

5. Sudanese Arabic • Kitaab (book) • kitaa[f] Fathi • kitaa[p] Samiir • kitaa[p] ʃariif • kitaa[p] Xaalid • Bit (daughter) • bi[t] Fathi • bi[s] Samiir • bi[ʃ] ʃariif • bi[t] Xaalid • Samak (fish) • sama[k] Fathi • sama[k] Samiir • sama[k] ʃariif • sama[x] Xaalid

6. Back to June Jordan You don' never write me off because you ignorant don' know nobody got my name my low lights softstone hometown street my rollin high Apollo style my sweet two babies wait for food I ain' figured out about yet but you bet I will I'll get them something serious goin on just let me sit here half a minute on the sidewalk next to Willie's Burgers watch that ole man suited up besides the blues can' touch that faithful finery can' mess up walk-to-Jesus shoes he clean he shine and shave and lose a weeklong shuffle steppin close to music from the signifyin red dress of some woman do not care the world stay blind to all the glory all the heavy invitation of a red dress radiate a whole day that she wear no stretch no stress she overturn the law of gravity she dare you don' believe it yeah she dare you!