{"id":11373,"date":"2018-09-17T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2018-09-17T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:14:33","slug":"phonology-circle-919-gaja-jarosz-umass-amherst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/17\/phonology-circle-919-gaja-jarosz-umass-amherst\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 9\/19 - Chris Yang (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Chris Yang (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title: <\/strong>Presenting<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/proceedings\/index.php\/amphonology\/article\/view\/40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/proceedings\/index.php\/amphonology\/article\/view\/40&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537220455594000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF83CigV2Gtv59kcB2skUmXGwDF6Q\">Serial Markedness Reduction<\/a>\u00a0(Jarosz 2014)<\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, September 19, 5:00-6:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a032-D831<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A growing body of research provides evidence supporting Harmonic Serialism (HS; McCarthy 2000, 2008a, 2010;\u00a0Elfner to appear; Pruitt 2010), a serial version of Optimality Theory in which a single ranking of constraints is used\u00a0iteratively to construct a derivation. This work has led to new insights into several outstanding problems in\u00a0phonology and has highlighted problematic over-predictions of parallel OT, showing that HS predicts a more\u00a0restricted range of interactions that better reflects typology. Although HS makes it possible to capture certain\u00a0generalizations stated at intermediate levels of representation, it does not provide a general solution to\u00a0phonological opacity. For this reason McCarthy developed a significant elaboration of HS, OT with Candidate\u00a0Chains (OT-CC; McCarthy 2007), which evaluates complete HS-like derivations in parallel. This paper proposes a\u00a0novel extension of HS, Serial Markedness Reduction (SMR), which combines advantages of HS and OT-CC. Like\u00a0OT-CC, SMR includes a family of constraints that enables the modeling of both counterfeeding and\u00a0counterbleeding opacity. However, SMR significantly streamlines the machinery necessary to model opacity as\u00a0compared to OT-CC, relying on the gradual optimization inherent to HS to construct a single optimal derivation.\u00a0The formal and empirical differences between OT-CC and SMR are discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We encourage those attending to read the paper (linked in the title), but by no means is it required!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Chris Yang (MIT) Title: Presenting\u00a0Serial Markedness Reduction\u00a0(Jarosz 2014) Date\/Time:\u00a0Wednesday, September 19, 5:00-6:30pm Location:\u00a032-D831 Abstract: A growing body of research provides evidence supporting Harmonic Serialism (HS; McCarthy 2000, 2008a, 2010;\u00a0Elfner to appear; Pruitt 2010), a serial version of Optimality Theory in which a single ranking of constraints is used\u00a0iteratively to construct a derivation. This work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}