Next Friday (21st March), Clàudia Pons-Moll of the Universitat de Barcelona will be giving a special LEL research seminar on (Un)Derived environment effects in Catalan and in other Romance languages.
The talk will be in Samuel Alexander A214, at 1pm on Friday 21st. Here’s the abstract:
In this talk we will focus on some (morpho)phonological phenomena drawn from Catalan, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese that only apply either in a underived or in a (specific) derived environment. The processes under evaluation will be stressed-vowel lowering and stress assignment in prestressing suffixed forms in Catalan, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, and underapplication of vowel reduction in Majorcan Catalan and in Brazilian Portuguese. We will show, on the other hand, how intricate it is to provide a proper formalization of these phenomena under the orthodox machineries developed within OT to account for (un)derived environments effects (such as Comparative Markedness, OT-CC with Optimal Interleaving, etc.), as well as under HS.
And here are some related readings:
A. About prestressing suffixes in Catalan, Italian and BP
- a) M. Kenstowicz (2011) «Vocale Incerta, Vocale Aperta». In: Proceedings of the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, LSRL 40, 2010, March 26-28, University of Washington.
- b) S.-H. Lee, (1995): Morfologia e fonologia lexical do português do Brasil. PhD thesis. Campinas: Unicamp.
- c) J. Mascaró (2003): «Comparative markedness and derived environments». Theoretical linguistics, 29. p. 113-122.
- d) C. Pons-Moll (2014): «Prestressing suffixes in Catalan. A challenge for OT-CC with Optimal Interleaving?» . Paper presented at the 11th Old World Conference in Phonology. Leiden / Amsterdam. January 2014.
B. About underapplication of vowel reduction in Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese (selection)
- a) S.-H. Lee, (1995): Morfologia e fonologia lexical do português do Brasil. PhD thesis. Campinas: Unicamp.
- b) C. Pons-Moll (2013). «Underapplication of vowel reduction to schwa in Majorcan Catalan. Some evidence for the left syllable of the stem as a prominent position and for subparadigms». In: S. Kan, C. Moore-Cantwell, R. Staubs (ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Graduate Linguistic Student Association, p. 121-135. [NB: Topic also presented and published (with a different focus) in the Proceedings of Going Romance 2009, 2011]
- c) C. Pons-Moll (2012). «When diachrony meets synchrony. Phonological change, phonological variation and Optimal Paradigms». In: G. De Vogelaer; G. Seiler (ed.), The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, p. 197-226).
Posted on March 14, 2014 by manling