32.117, FYI: ExLing Tutorial

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:13:09
From: Antonis Botinis [info at exlingsociety.com]
Subject: ExLing Tutorial

 
Jan. 29, 2021, 16:00 GMT
Phonology and Paradigm Uniformity
Donca Steriade

Most phonological systems display certain patterns of similarity between
lexically related words. These similarities are unexpected, in that the normal
functioning of the phonology would predict more dissimilar pairs; they are
directional, in that one form appears to be basic and others are derived from
it; they can be recursive; and they frequently involve non-distinctive
phonological properties (Steriade 2000), suggesting that they are relations
between surface structures.  Thus the stress of English pairs like dísciplin
and dísciplining is identical, 100 and 100-0. The latter deviates from the
stress pattern of English simple words, where 000 strings are impossible.
Virtually every language we know contains such similar sets. Children appear
to anticipate their existence, even when the evidence available to them
contradicts this expectation (Do 2018).

The analysis of these similarities varies, depending on the syntactic
relations between the forms. When a similar pair involves nested forms, as
with dísciplin-dísciplining, they are analyzed using the tools of cyclic
phonology (Chomsky, Halle and Lukoff 1956) or, in OT, Base-Derivative
correspondence and related ideas (Benua 1997). When this is not the case, as
with uniform inflectional paradigms (Albright 2010, McCarthy 2005) or
morphomes (Aronoff  1994; Steriade 2016) or other forms of stem syncretism
(Steriade 2008; Steriade and Yanovich 2015), different and incompatible
devices are invoked in their analysis, or no analysis is offered.

The question, then, is how the shared properties of such similar
morpho-lexical sets can be given a unified account. The tutorial will
illustrate the shared properties, will motivate one idea that leads to a
generalized analysis, and will provide some experimental support for it. 

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