{"id":2185,"date":"2011-02-14T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2011-02-13T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T00:58:41","slug":"harvard-phonology-talk-214-matthew-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/14\/harvard-phonology-talk-214-matthew-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Phonology Talk 2\/14 - Matthew Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Matthew Wolf (Yale)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Candidate Chains, unfaithful spell-out, and outwards-looking phonologically conditioned allomorphy<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday, February 14, 5:00pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: Boylston Hall 335 (third floor)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><\/p>\n<p>If the phonological realization of morphemes proceeds serially, and in an<br clear='none'\/>\ncyclic, inside-out manner, it is predicted that the choice of allomorphs for<br clear='none'\/>\nsome morpheme M cannot be &#8216;outwards looking&#8217;: it cannot be sensitive<br clear='none'\/>\nthe phonological shape of morphemes that are structurally external to M,<br clear='none'\/>\nsince these will not be phonologically realized until later in the derivation.<br clear='none'\/>\nBy contrast, if the computation of allomorph choice proceeds in parallel<br clear='none'\/>\nfor whole words (or utterances), outwards-looking suppletion should<br clear='none'\/>\nalways be possible. The problem addressed in this talk is that outwardslooking<br clear='none'\/>\nphonologically conditioned suppletion is clearly not as freely<br clear='none'\/>\navailable as a purely parallel approach would lead us to expect, but<br clear='none'\/>\nneither is it totally unattested, as a purely serial approach would predict.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I propose that the right balance between serialism and<br clear='none'\/>\nparallelism can be struck by using an OT with Candidate Chains grammar<br clear='none'\/>\n(McCarthy 2007) as the environment in which allomorphic choices are<br clear='none'\/>\nmade. Specifically, I explore the idea that the potential for outwardslooking<br clear='none'\/>\nphonologically conditioned allomorphy is restricted to cases<br clear='none'\/>\nwhere the competing allomorphs differ as to which (if any) faithfulness<br clear='none'\/>\nconstraints on morpheme\/morph similarity they violate. This revision of<br clear='none'\/>\ncertain assumptions made in Wolf (2008) would bring the treatment of<br clear='none'\/>\nmorphological operations in OT-CC nearer to the way the phonological<br clear='none'\/>\noperations are treated, and it arguably does allow outwards-looking<br clear='none'\/>\nphonologically-conditioned allomorphy just in those cases where it is<br clear='none'\/>\nindeed attested. Examples from Western Armenian (Vaux 2003) and<br clear='none'\/>\nTzotzil (Aissen 1987; Woolford to appear) are used to motivate the<br clear='none'\/>\nproposal.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upcoming phonology talks at Harvard:<br clear='none'\/>\n2\/24: Karen Jesney (UMass Amherst)<br clear='none'\/>\n2\/28: Gillian Gallagher (NYU)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Matthew Wolf (Yale) Title: Candidate Chains, unfaithful spell-out, and outwards-looking phonologically conditioned allomorphy Time: Monday, February 14, 5:00pm Location: Boylston Hall 335 (third floor) If the phonological realization of morphemes proceeds serially, and in an cyclic, inside-out manner, it is predicted that the choice of allomorphs for some morpheme M cannot be &#8216;outwards looking&#8217;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}