{"id":16432,"date":"2024-09-09T05:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2024-09-09T05:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:10:57","slug":"dora-takacs-defends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/09\/09\/dora-takacs-defends\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3ra Tak\u00e1cs defends!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 18, D\u00f3ra successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian”<\/strong>! Congratulations, D\u00f3ra!!<\/p>\n

Here’s the abstract:<\/p>\n

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I analyze a large set of Hungarian nominal and verbal stems whose last vowel alternates with zero in certain contexts (Vago (1980), Sipta?r & To?rkenczy (2000)): e.g. bokor, bokr- ok. I argue that the mechanism underlying these alternations is syncope, departing in this from earlier work (Vago (1980), Abondolo (1988), J. Jensen & Stong-Jensen (1988, 1989), To?rkenczy (1995), Abrusa?n (2005)) which assumes epenthesis or metathesis.<\/p>\n

My research focuses on which stems fall into this closed group of vowel-zero alternating stems. I show that there is an interaction between phonological processes that repair phono- tactically illicit consonant clusters \u0096 like voicing assimilation, gemination, affrication \u0096 and vowel-zero alternations. I present a proposal that correctly predicts that these phonological processes block vowel-zero alternations.<\/p>\n

The grammar that generates this result includes a ranking schema where the constraint triggering syncope (referred to below as Syncope) is outranked not only by the Markedness constraints that define illicit CC-clusters in Hungarian but also by the faithfulness constraints that are normally violated in the repair of such clusters. The general ranking I will argue for is:<\/p>\n

(1) Markedness (*CC for various CCs) \u00bb Faithfulness to Cs \u00bb Syncope \u00bb Max V<\/p>\n

I also present results from a wug experiment, which confirms that Hungarian speakers are aware of the systematic restrictions my analysis characterizes.<\/p>\n

The broad significance of the work is to document a large-scale conspiracy (Kisseberth (1970)) whereby permissible CC clusters emerge in at least two ways: through direct action of repair processes (assimilation or merger of two Cs into one) and through blockage of the syncope process that could yield the inputs to such repairs.<\/p>\n

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On June 18, D\u00f3ra successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian”! Congratulations, D\u00f3ra!! Here’s the abstract: I analyze a large set of Hungarian nominal and verbal stems whose last vowel alternates with zero in certain contexts (Vago (1980), Sipta?r & To?rkenczy (2000)): e.g. bokor, bokr- ok. I argue that the mechanism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16434,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}