Speaker: Heidi Durresi (MIT)
Title: Hauser & Hughto (2020) on contextual faithfulness constraints for opacity
Time: Monday, December 9th, 5-6:30pm
Location: 32-D831
Abstract: For this week’s Phonology Circle, I’ll be presenting a recent paper by Hauser and Hughto which explores the use of contextual faithfulness constraints to analyze opacity in parallel Optimality Theory and Harmonic Serialism. These are faithfulness constraints which assign violations under a context present in the input, crucially different from previously used positional faithfulness constraints (Beckman 1998, Lombardi 1999). I will be laying out the capabilities of these constraints for analyzing various kinds of opacity, as well as the typological consequences of the availability of such constraints.