{"id":8807,"date":"2016-10-11T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:31:10","slug":"ling-lunch-1013-juliet-stanton-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/11\/ling-lunch-1013-juliet-stanton-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 10\/13 - Juliet Stanton (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/juliets.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\"><strong>Juliet Stanton<\/strong><\/a> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: <em>Segmental blocking in dissimilation: an argument for co-occurrence constraints<\/em><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Thursday, October 13<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 12:30pm-1:50pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most contemporary work assumes that dissimilation is motivated by featural co-occurrence (OCP) constraints (e.g. Alderete 1997, Suzuki 1998): a process that maps \/X\u0085X\/ to [X\u0085Y] (for example) would be explained by positing a ban on co-occurring [X]s.<\/p>\n<p>I first show how this approach can be extended to analyze the typology of segmental blocking effects (name due to Bennett 2015), a term used to describe cases in which a dissimilatory process is blocked by some segments, but not others. For example, dissimilation might apply across some segment Z (\/X\u0085Z\u0085X\/ &gt; [X\u0085Z\u0085Y]), but not some other segment Y (\/X\u0085Y\u0085X\/ &gt; [X\u0085Y\u0085X]). This pattern can be explained in the following way (following Kenstowicz 1994, Steriade 1995): if a ban on co-occurring [Y]s (violated in the unattested \/X\u0085Y\u0085X\/ &gt; *[X\u0085Y\u0085Y]) takes priority over the ban on co-occurring [X]s (violated in the attested \/X\u0085Y\u0085X\/ &gt; [X\u0085Y\u0085X]), then dissimilation of \/X\u0085X\/ to [X\u0085Y] will fail if some [Y] is present elsewhere in the word.<\/p>\n<p>I argue that all cases of attested segmental blocking should be analyzed as an interaction between two competing co-occurrence constraints (as above), and provide new evidence from lexical statistics in support of this conclusion. Time permitting, I will introduce an alternative correspondence-based analysis of blocking in dissimilation (Bennett 2015), and show that its predictions are less restrictive than those of the proposed analysis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Juliet Stanton (MIT) Title: Segmental blocking in dissimilation: an argument for co-occurrence constraints Date: Thursday, October 13 Time: 12:30pm-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Most contemporary work assumes that dissimilation is motivated by featural co-occurrence (OCP) constraints (e.g. Alderete 1997, Suzuki 1998): a process that maps \/X\u0085X\/ to [X\u0085Y] (for example) would be explained by positing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8927,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}