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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure\, timing\, and fortition-lenition patterns
DESCRIPTION:Location – Royce Hall 362 \nTitle: Prosodic structure\, timing\, and fortition-lenition patterns \nAbstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization\, intervocalic voicing\, and flapping take place in a component of grammar that governs the fine-grained temporal dynamics of speech sounds and their interaction with prosodic structure. I argue that these lenition patterns are different from other processes sometimes referred to as ‘lenition’; that they do not manipulate phonological features; that they lie on a broader continuum of prosodically-driven phonetic variation; and that they are implemented primarily through subphonemic adjustments to duration and the temporal separation between prosodic units. With data from Campidanese Sardinian\, I illustrate a schematic approach to modeling lenition as a language-specific property of phonetic implementation\, operating on prosodic structure and the output of narrow phonology.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jonah-katz/
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology
DESCRIPTION:Location – Math and Science 5200 \nTitle: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology \nAbstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation\, the one-by-one attachment of affixal morphemes to the root\, guided by morphosyntactic constituency via the “Mirror Principle” (Baker 1985). In this talk\, I propose an alternative\, parallel model of morpheme order that locates morpheme concatenation in the phonological component of the grammar. This model\, couched within Parallel Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004)\, generates morpheme order through the interaction of two pieces of the grammar. The first is “articulated alignment”\, which posits that every morpheme has its own alignment constraint (McCarthy & Prince 1993) which prefers it to be as close as possible to a specified edge. The second is the “Mirror Alignment Principle” (Zukoff 2023)\, a novel property of the phonology-morphology interface that dynamically determines the ranking of alignment constraints based on the morphosyntactic structure\, in a way that derives the Mirror Principle. This approach allows for transparent interaction between phonological factors and morphological/morphosyntactic factors in a single input-output mapping. I will demonstrate that this approach is necessary to properly explain the generalizations underlying ordering alternations in two atypical morphological systems. The first is mobile affixation in Huave (Huavean; Kim 2008)\, where phonological and morphological properties interact to trigger prefix/suffix alternations. The second is root-and-pattern morphology in Arabic (Semitic; e.g. McCarthy 1979)\, where phonological and morphosyntactic properties interact to trigger prefix/infix alternations\, which themselves inform alternations across far-flung components of the grammar. This adds to the body of research arguing for a parallel model of the phonology-morphology interface.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-sam-zukoff/
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