{"id":12623,"date":"2019-09-30T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2019-09-30T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:11:59","slug":"mini-course-10-3-matthew-gordon-university-of-california-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/30\/mini-course-10-3-matthew-gordon-university-of-california-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-course 10\/3 - Matthew Gordon (University of California, Santa Barbara)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Matthew Gordon (UCSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title<\/strong>: Prosodic domains and prominence in languages with long morphological words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong>: Thursday, October 3, 12:30pm-2:00 and 5:00pm-6:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong>: 32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong>:
Metrical stress theory has advanced considerably through the study\u00a0of languages with highly agglutinative and polysynthetic\u00a0morphological profiles since they contain the long words necessary\u00a0to maximally differentiate stress systems. Properties for which\u00a0languages with exceptionally long morphological words have\u00a0provided crucial insight include, among others, iambic-trochaic\u00a0asymmetries, ternary foot structure, the taxonomy of prominence,\u00a0and the acquisition and computational modeling of metrical\u00a0systems. Morphological complexity, however, also brings challenges\u00a0to the analysis of prosody since long morphological words increase\u00a0the likelihood of ambiguities in the source of prominence as a\u00a0word- or phrase-level property and the possibility for otherwise\u00a0rare or unattested mappings between prosodic and morphological\u00a0domains, including single morphological words comprised of\u00a0multiple prosodic words or even prosodic phrases.

This mini-course will examine prosodic domain and their\u00a0relationship to morphological constituents in languages with the\u00a0requisite morphological properties that give rise to a high\u00a0density of long words. We will explore what is known about prosody\u00a0in highly agglutinative and polysynthetic languages with the goals\u00a0of discovering for this class of languages (at least preliminary)\u00a0typological generalizations about prosodic domains and\u00a0contextualizing these results within a broader prosodic\u00a0theor. Material will be largely drawn from my work on a number of\u00a0morphologically complex languages supplemented with published\u00a0sources on other languages with similar morphological profiles.<\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested Readings:
Baker, Brett. 2014. Word structure in Australian languages. In\u00a0Koch, Harold and Rachel Nordlinger (eds.), *The languages and\u00a0linguistics of Australia*, pp. 139-213. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Beck, David and David Bennett. 2007. Extending the prosodic\u00a0hierarchy: Evidence from Lushootseed narrative. *Northwest Journal\u00a0of Linguistics* 1, 1\u009634.
Bickel, B., and Zu\u00f1iga, F. (2017). The ‘word’ in polysynthetic\u00a0languages: phonological and syntactic challenges. In M. Fortascue,\u00a0M. Mithun, & N.\u00a0\u00a0Evans (eds.), *The Oxford handbook of\u00a0polysynthesis*, 158-186. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gordon, Matthew. 2005. An autosegmental\/metrical model of\u00a0Chickasaw intonation. In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.), *Prosodic typology: The\u00a0phonology of intonation and phrasing*, pp. 301-30. New York:\u00a0Oxford University Press.
Lovick, Olga, and Siri Tuttle. 2012.\u00a0\u00a0The Prosody of Dena\u0092ina\u00a0narrative discourse. *International Journal of American\u00a0Linguistics* 78, 293\u0096334.
Stanton, Juliet. 2016. Learnability shapes typology: the case of themidpoint pathology. *Language* 92, 753-791.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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