Workshop ‘PhonStraP’: Morphosyntactic conditioning of phonology in Stratal and parallel frameworks
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PhonStraPWorkshop description
This workshop aims to bring together researchers investigating how morphosyntactic structure conditions phonological computation, with a special focus on insights from Stratal Optimality Theory (Stratal OT), but also parallel frameworks. In Stratal OT, grammatical information influences the application of phonology through three principal mechanisms, level selection (stem, word, phrase), cyclic misapplication, and prosodic bounding, each offering a distinct window into the interaction between morphology, syntax, and phonology.
We invite contributions that explore how grammatical structure determines phonological domains and drives phonological alternations, whether through procedural (cyclic) or representational (prosodic) mechanisms. The workshop seeks to foster dialogue across theoretical models, from stratal architectures to monostratal OT, Cophonology Theory, and Output-Output correspondence approaches.
Program:
(Please, click on the red-colored titles to read the abstracts).
Dijous 12
| Registration | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Welcome |
| 14:45-15:45 | Paul Kiparsky, keynote speaker Cyclicity in Stratal OT |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-17:45 | Session 1
Theoretical implications of non-optimising phonologically conditioned suppletion: The case of the stative and ambulative suffixes in Mapudungun Lenition and resyllabification in Greek morphophonology: A case for Stratal OT On cyclicity and prosodic structure in the phonology of enclisis: The case of Ancient Greek |
| 17:45-18:00 | Short break |
| Poster session
Impostoronsets in Omani Mehri as a bicyclic effect Functional hierarchies and phonological blocking in A’ingae OT account of Polish retraction requires derivational steps, probabilistic ranking and lexical listing Stratal MaxEnt with Bayesian inference Phonology without morphology: A parallel account of Turoyo verb structure How stress marks the perfective-imperfective opposition in Ukranian Clitic boundary in modern standard Russian |
Divendres 13
| Session 2 Gradual weakening across morphological layers: Solving stratal paradoxes in Kashaya Eva Zimmermann (Universität Leipzig) Stress without strata: A gradient representational account of Choguita Rarámuri |
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| Coffee break | |
| Session 3 Preantepenultimate stress in Italian: Paradigm uniformity or open window? Chris Golston (California State University Fresno), Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Stress distribution in Italian verbs Stratal chameleon affixes in Kannada Dual attachment of affixes: phonology, locality, or (base-driven) stratification? |
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| Lunch | |
| Session 4 On the nature of phonological cyclicity: Evidence from Nazarene Arabic Eyal Marco (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ezer Rasin (Tel-Aviv University) Opaque vowel epenthesis in Turkish nominal clauses A concatenative account of tonal patterns in Japanese mimetic nominal adjectives |
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| Short break | |
| Session 5 A cyclic account of prefix integration in Kaqchikel Mayan Florence Zhang-Yukun, Romany Finn Amber, Jem Burch, William Palmer, Squid Tamar-Mattis, Natalie Weber (Yale University) Prefixes in Navajo consonant harmony: Morpho-syntax determining phonological directionality Structure preservation and non-preservation in [ATR] harmony |
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| Short coffee break | |
| Session 6 Bora nominalisation across strata: A Stratal OT approach Andrés Napurí (New York University) Why doesn’t phonology respect my (morphological) boundaries? Factorial typology in Stratal OT |
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| Closing remarks | |
| Workshop dinner |

