Workshop ‘PhonStraP’: Morphosyntactic conditioning of phonology in Stratal and parallel frameworks

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PhonStraP

Workshop 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
Aldo Berrios (University of Edinburgh)

Lenition and resyllabification in Greek morphophonology: A case for Stratal OT
Eirini Apostolopoulou, Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

On cyclicity and prosodic structure in the phonology of enclisis: The case of Ancient Greek
Ryan Sandell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

17:45-18:00 Short break
Poster session

Impostoronsets in Omani Mehri as a bicyclic effect
Edoardo Cavirani (Masaryk University), Noam Faust (Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL), Janet C.E. Watson (University of Leeds)

Functional hierarchies and phonological blocking in A’ingae
Maksymilian Dąbkowski (University of Hong Kong)

OT account of Polish retraction requires derivational steps, probabilistic ranking and lexical listing
Jakub Dunin-Borkowski (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)

Stratal MaxEnt with Bayesian inference
Andrew Hennessey (University of York)

Phonology without morphology: A parallel account of Turoyo verb structure
Vera Rusyanova (Universität Leipzig)

How stress marks the perfective-imperfective opposition in Ukranian
Nataliya Shvets, Michal Starke (Masaryk University)

Clitic boundary in modern standard Russian
Dmitrii Zelenskii (University of Edinburgh)

 

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
Razieh Shojaei (Universität Leipzig)

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
Edoardo Cavirani, Michal Starke (Masaryk University)

Stratal chameleon affixes in Kannada
Katie Mc Cann (Universität Leipzig)

Dual attachment of affixes: phonology, locality, or (base-driven) stratification?
Pavel Iosad, Itamar Kastner, Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh)

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
Stefano Canalis, Gülben Kara (Boğaziçi University)

A concatenative account of tonal patterns in Japanese mimetic nominal adjectives
Xun Zhao (University of Tsukuba)

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
Jenna Therese Conklin, Martin Krämer (UiT, the Arctic University of Norway)

Structure preservation and non-preservation in [ATR] harmony
Sara Mackenzie (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

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?
Gloria Mellesmoen (Yale University), Bailey Trotter (The University of British Columbia)

Factorial typology in Stratal OT
Nick Kalivoda (University West, Sweden), Alan Prince (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)

Closing remarks
Workshop dinner
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Data
12 - 13 nov., 2026
Hora
14:00 - 19:40
Localització
Sala de Graus, Fac. de Filosofia i Lletres

Organitzador

Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Telèfon
(+34) 93 581 23 72
Correu electrònic
cr.clt@uab.cat
Web
https://clt.uab.cat/
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