34.1533, Confs: Satellite Workshop PaPE2023: Metaphony: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
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Subject: 34.1533, Confs: Satellite Workshop PaPE2023: Metaphony: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
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Date: 17-May-2023
From: Michela Russo [mrusso at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Satellite Workshop PaPE2023: Metaphony: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
Satellite Workshop PaPE2023: Metaphony: Theoretical, descriptive and
typological issues
Short Title: PaPE2023
Date: 01-Jun-2023 - 06-Jun-2023
Location: Nijmegen, the Netherlands -Radboud's Centre for Language
Studies (CLS), Netherlands
Contact: Michela Russo
Contact Email: mrusso at univ-paris8.fr
Meeting URL: https://pape-conference.org/satelliteworkshop.html
Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
Meeting Description:
Organizers: Michela Russo (CNRS SFL /Paris 8 & U. Lyon 3, France) &
Rachel Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Metaphony is a well-known phonological process found in many
languages. It has been interpreted as an instance of a stress-induced
vowel harmony, since the properties of following unstressed vowels are
attracted by stressed vowels. For example, metaphonic raising has been
analyzed as the result of transferring, spreading, or copying a height
feature from an unstressed syllable to the stressed syllable.
Discussions have varied in the literature, and distinct models have
been developed to understand the process from formal phonology to
phonetic/acoustic experimental studies. The aim of this workshop is to
compare several harmonic systems, referred to as metaphony, in order
to examine how metaphony is best represented and analyzed. For
example, several accounts of metaphony systems have employed binary
features, such as [high] or [ATR] (e.g. Calabrese 1985, 1998, 2011),
while others employ unary features (phonological primes are unary
elements). In the latter case, a loss of unary features/element primes
may occur, |A| in raising metaphony or |~a| in dependency-based
models, while there may be copy of |A| from a licensor in opening
metaphony (e.g. Maiden 1991; Russo 2007, 2014; Carvalho & Russo 2007;
D’Alessandro & Oostendorp 2016; van der Hulst 2018). Also under focus
is what rules or constraints drive metaphony, such as issues in the
formulation of positional licensing constraints (e.g. Walker 2005,
2011; Lloret & Jiménez 2009; Kaplan 2018; Jiménez & Lloret 2020).
This workshop aims to examine questions such as the following:
- What is the representational nature of the elements involved in
metaphony (e.g. binary features, unary features, or gestures)?
- Is the set of metaphonic features grounded in phonetics and/or in
cognitive principles categorizing the phonetic substance? (See Samuels
et al. 2022)
- How can we establish a set of phonological primitives? And how can
the set of (active) elements in the binary or unary system vary
depending on the metaphony system?
- How are phonological properties and complexity encoded in the
models?
- Which is the relation between unary systems and markedness in
metaphony?
- What formally drives metaphony (e.g. positional licensing
constraints, rules)?
- How are trigger-target relations and the nature of locality
established?
- How does metaphony operate between suffix and stem and what are the
different possible roles of morphology in metaphony?
- How can we take into account morpheme-specific effects,
heteromorphemic primes and morpho-phonologically based requirements?
- Does a basic categorization principle exist to limit the set of
elements to a number of units per class anchored in categorical
perception?
- How are metaphony and umlaut different from vowel harmony, if at
all?
In defining theoretical mechanisms and representations of metaphony
systems, phonological rules or constraints and licensing phenomena,
several other points are also at issue: principles of locality,
relativized locality, non-local mechanisms, iterative or non-iterative
metaphony, hierarchical constraint interactions, co-occurrence
restrictions, the definition of positional licensing constraints in
Optimality Theory and in Harmonic Grammar, the type of licensing
applied to floating features, directionality, disharmonic roots,
opacity vs. transparency, reduction to schwa, deletion or raising
affecting final vowels (derivational opacity and the notion of
transfer in apophonic languages), definition of the stressed
nucleus/recipient vs. unstressed syllables (since metaphony is
stress-related), strengthening of the stressed syllable and weakening
of the unstressed syllable, copying/movement of primes and the
consequent ranking, variation.
Program:
Organizers:
MICHELA RUSSO (CNRS SFL /U. Paris 8 & U. Lyon, France)
RACHEL WALKER (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
09:00-09:05 Welcome by the Organizers
09:05-09:45 Keynote Speaker: MARIA-ROSA LLORET
(Universitat de Barcelona) Constraining the scope of metaphony in
southeastern peninsular Spanish
09:45-10:05 HARRY VAN DE HULST
(University of Connecticut) The challenge from Metaphony for AIU
systems
10:05-10:25 RACHEL WALKER
(University of California, Santa Cruz) Metaphony and Asymmetric
Positional Activity
10:25-10:45 BERT VAUX
(Cambridge University) Umlaut, multiple opacities, and staged
computation in Kazakhstani Uyghur
10:45-11:05 Break
11:05-11-25 FÉJES LÁSZLÓ
(Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) Canonical vowel
harmony vs. metaphony: radically different tendencies for
morphologization
11:25-11:45 MICHELA RUSSO
(UJML 3 & SFL 7023 CNRS/U. Paris 8) The Morphemic Metaphony, the
Neuter and Feminine gender. The puzzle of the hidden triggers
11:45-12:25 Keynote Speaker: AARON KAPLAN
(University of Utah) Prominence Conflicts in Bolognese
12:25-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 MARK SIMMONS
(University of California, San Diego) Morphologically constrained
metaphony in Tira
13:50-14:10 PAOLO DANESI
(University of Côte d’Azur) Metaphony in Radical Substance Free
Phonology: variation and morphological conditioning
14:10-14:50 Keynote Speaker: CHARLES REISS
(Concordia University & Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science)
Metaphony in Substance Free Logical Phonology
14:50-15:10 JOSE BENAVIDES
(Indiana University) Raising to high in Nariñense
15:10-15:30 STEFANO CANALIS
(Boğazici University) Transparency and locality in Romance vowel
harmony
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:10 ANDREA CALABRESE (University of Connecticut) & MIRKO
GRIMALDI (University of Salento) Southern Salentino metaphonic
microvariations: Acoustic, articulatory and phonological analysis
16:10-16:30 GREESHMA JOSEPH
(University of Delhi) Vowel Lowering in Malayalam
16:30-17:30 Round table Future directions in metaphony
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