LING3422 (Phonology) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 4.3/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Examines phonology, the study of the mental representation, organization, and patterning of sounds in human language. Major topics include phonological typology, phonemes, underlying and surface representations, phonological rules and alternations, natural classes of sounds, syllables and prosody, autosegmental phonology, rule-based vs. constraint-based approaches, morphophonology, diachronic phonology, and current theoretic models of sound systems.
Data updated October 2026.