Speaker: Juliet Stanton and Sam Zukoff (MIT) Title: Prosodic effects of segmental correspondence Time: Thurs 4/9, 12:30-1:45 Place: 32-D461
In this talk, we examine how extensions of Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995) can be used to explain a class of misapplication effects arising in reduplication and copy epenthesis. In these domains, we frequently see exceptional patterning in the assignment of phonological properties relating to prominence (i.e. stress, pitch, length). We will argue that, in order to explain these effects, the phonological grammar must have the following two properties:
(i) The existence of a Correspondence relation among surface segments, arising under particular structural configurations, and
(ii) Output-Output faithfulness constraints that require identity among surface correspondents for prosodic properties.
We show that a grammar with these properties is sufficient and necessary to generate a range of effects, many of which have heretofore failed to receive satisfactory explanations in the literature:
(i) Stress-matching in Ngan’gityemerri reduplication (Reid 2011)
(ii) Sub-categorical durational matching between copy vowels and their hosts in Scots Gaelic (Bosch & de Jong 1997) and Hocank (e.g. Miner 1989)
(iii) Opaque interactions between copy epenthesis and stress placement in Selayarese (e.g. Broselow 2001), Tahitian (Bickmore 1995), and Hocank (e.g. Miner 1989)