35.802, Confs: Phonological Domains and What Conditions Them

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Subject: 35.802, Confs: Phonological Domains and What Conditions Them

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Date: 06-Mar-2024
From: Hannah Sande [hsande at berkeley.edu]
Subject: Phonological Domains and What Conditions Them

Phonological domains and what conditions them

Date: 13-Sep-2024 - 14-Sep-2024
Location: UC Berkeley, USA
Contact: Hannah Sande
Contact Email: hsande at berkeley.edu
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/phondom

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Meeting Description:

Trubetzkoy (1939) introduced the concept of boundary signals, and he
identified a large range of them. However, he only considered very few
boundaries, i.e., only morpheme and word boundaries. Chomsky & Halle
(1968) introduce a feature [±boundary] and also primarily distinguish
between morpheme (formative) and word boundaries. Going beyond
Trubetzkoy, they assume that syntactic units are translated into
phonological units but already observe that the mapping is not always
perfect. In particular, the highly hierarchical syntactic structure is
flattened in prosody (1968: 372).

With the introduction of Prosodic Phonology (Selkirk 1980; Nespor &
Vogel 1986), a rich hierarchical structure of different prosodic units
was available and the domains of the Prosodic Hierarchy were all
motivated through observed application of a sandhi rule or
non-application of an otherwise general rule, i.e., boundary effects.
Inside words, the Prosodic hierarchy is orthogonal to the levels
developed in Lexical Phonology and Morphology (Kiparsky 1982; Mohannan
1986 etc.).

Prosodic Phonology and the domains proposed have been challenged on
empirical as well as theoretical grounds repeatedly. Specifically the
domains beyond the word domain have been under discussion, starting
with the Clitic Group. Prosodic Words nested within Prosodic Words
have occasionally been proposed (Peperkamp 1997), as well as major and
minor phrases or the accent phrase. Ito & Mester (2009:147) criticize
the proliferation of categories in the hierarchy and introduce
strictly limited recursion or rather layering of the domains above the
foot (for discussion see as well Vogel 2009). This layering was
subsequently extended to feet (Martínez-Paricio 2013). The probably
most radical variation on this theme is the infinite recursion of the
Prosodic Word (Bennett 2018). Proliferation of categories (with or
without recursion) is one approach to solving problems with the
hierarchy.

A different strand of research reconsiders syntactic domains, such as
phases as the basis for phonological domains (Marvin 2003; Kratzer &
Selkirk 2007; Newell 2008; Pak 2008; Šurkalović 2015; Jenks & Rose
2015; D’Alessandro & Scheer 2015; Sande 2017; Kastner 2019; Sande,
Jenks, & Inkelas 2020). Prosodic restructuring, as alluded to by
Chomsky & Halle in terms of readjustment rules and as discussed in
breadth by Nespor & Vogel, still needs to be accounted for in such
syntactic approaches (see, e.g., Bonet et al. 2019).

Accordingly, the most recent proposals seem to acknowledge this and
develop hybrid approaches, which use syntactic structures, e.g.,
phases, for coarse chunking and constraints on prosodic categories for
the fine tuning (Kastner 2019; Sande et al. 2020; Bellik et al. 2023).
The consequences and benefits of an integrated approach that derives
phonological domains from syntactic domains such as phases, have yet
to be explored.

This workshop brings together invited speakers to present on and
discuss phonological domains.

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