{"id":12984,"date":"2019-11-12T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2019-11-10T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:06:27","slug":"morphun-11-13-anton-kuchto-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/11\/12\/morphun-11-13-anton-kuchto-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 11\/13 - Anton Kukhto (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Anton Kukhto (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Bennett (2017): &#8216;Output optimization in the Irish plural system&#8217;<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, November 13th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D831<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this paper I argue that a subpattern of Irish plural allomorphy should be analyzed as output optimizing in character. Specifically, I claim that stress-sensitive alternations between the plural suffixes -(<em>e<\/em>)<em>anna<\/em> and -(<em>e<\/em>)<em>acha<\/em> are conditioned by constraints on metrical well-formedness. This analysis connects with independent facts about the the prosodic prominence of [ax] sequences in Irish phonology. I further argue that an explanatory analysis of these patterns must make use of the notion of surface optimization. Alternative frameworks that eschew surface-oriented optimization mechanisms fail to account for synchronic and diachronic properties of the Irish plural system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Anton Kukhto (MIT) Title: Bennett (2017): &#8216;Output optimization in the Irish plural system&#8217; Time: Wednesday, November 13th, 5pm - 6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: In this paper I argue that a subpattern of Irish plural allomorphy should be analyzed as output optimizing in character. Specifically, I claim that stress-sensitive alternations between the plural suffixes -(e)anna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12992,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}