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Speaker: <\/strong> Edward Flemming (MIT) - Joint work with Giorgio Magri (CNRS, SFL, Paris 8) More specifically: suppose an optional consonant deletion process is favored by the presence I will review several test cases that are consistent with this generalization. We will then see Speaker: Edward Flemming (MIT) - Joint work with Giorgio Magri (CNRS, SFL, Paris 8) Title: Strict domination in probabilistic phonology Time: Monday, March 10th, 5pm - 6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: Labov (1969) hypothesized that rates of application of variable phonological processes obey an intriguing generalization that we dub the Strict Domination Generalization? Where multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","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=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTitle: <\/strong>Strict domination in probabilistic phonology
\nTime: <\/strong>Monday, March 10th, 5pm - 6:30pm
\nLocation: <\/strong>32-D831
\n
\nAbstract: <\/strong>Labov (1969) hypothesized that rates of application of variable phonological processes obey
\nan intriguing generalization that we dub the Strict Domination Generalization? Where multiple
\nfactors affect the rate of application of a process, the factors can always be ordered in a hierarchy
\nsuch that \u0093each [factor] in the hierarchy outweighs the effects of all [factors] below it\u0094 (cf. strict
\ndomination between constraints in Optimality Theory).<\/p>\n
\nof each of three factors, F1, F2, F3 (e.g. properties like presence of a following consonant, or
\noccurrence in an unstressed syllable). The Strict Domination Generalization implies that these
\nfactors have to be ranked, e.g. F1 >> F2 >> F3 (borrowing the OT notation for ranking). Given
\nthis ranking, the rate of deletion must be higher in all contexts where F1 = yes than in all
\ncontexts where F1 = no, regardless of the values of the lower ranked factors, and within each
\nvalue of F1, the rate of deletion must be higher where F2 = yes, regardless of the value of F3,
\nresulting in the order of deletion rates shown below. F1 outweighs all factors below it in the
\nsense that contexts where only F1 favors deletion have a higher rate of deletion than contexts
\nwhere both F2 and F3 favor deletion, but F1 does not.<\/p>\n
\nthat the generalization does not follow from any current model of probabilistic grammar
\n(Stochastic OT, MaxEnt, Noisy Harmonic Grammar), so if it is correct, we need a new model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"