20.788, Confs: Phonology/Netherlands

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Subject: 20.788, Confs: Phonology/Netherlands

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Date: 11-Mar-2009
From: Marc van Oostendorp < Marc at vanOostendorp.nl >
Subject: Seminar: Approaches to Word Accent (Word Stress)

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:34:17
From: Marc van Oostendorp [Marc at vanOostendorp.nl]
Subject: Seminar: Approaches to Word Accent (Word Stress)

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Seminar: Approaches to Word Accent (Word Stress) 
Short Title: AWA 

Date: 02-Apr-2009 - 02-Apr-2009 
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact: Marc van Oostendorp 
Contact Email: Marc.van.Oostendorp at Meertens.knaw.nl 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

Seminar: Approaches to Word Accent (Word Stress)
Organized by Rob Goedemans, Jeroen van de Weijer and Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden
University)

April 2, 2009; Leiden University, Lipsius Building
(http://www.visitors.leiden.edu/lipsius.jsp), room 235c

14.00 - 16:00 Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut): A new theory of
word accentual structures (abstract below)
16:00 - Comments by Marc van Oostendorp and Jeroen van de Weijer, followed by
discussion

Participation in this seminar is free for all. If possible, please announce your
intention to come with
Marc.van.Oostendorp at Meertens.KNAW.nl

A New Theory of Word Accentual Structures
Harry van der Hulst
University of Connecticut

The key insight of standard metrical theory (Liberman and Prince 1977, Vergnaud
and Halle 1978, Hayes 1980, Halle and Vergnaud 1987, Idsardi 1990) is that
syllables (or perhaps subsyllabic constituents such as skeletal positions,
rhymes or moras) of words are organized into a layer of foot structure, each
foot having a head. Primary accent is then derived by organizing the feet into a
word structure in which one foot is the head. The head of the head foot, being a
head at both levels, expresses primary accent. In this view, rhythmic accents
are assigned first, while primary accent is regarded as the promotion of one of
these rhythmic accents. In this seminar, I defend a different formal theory of word
accent. The theory is non-metrical in that the account of primary accent
location is not based on iterative foot structure. The theory separates the
representation of primary and rhythmic accents, the idea being that the latter
are accounted for with reference to the primary accent location. This means that
rhythmic structure is either assigned later (in a derivational sense), or
governed by constraints that are subordinate to the constraints that govern
primary accent (as is possible in the approach presented in Prince and Smolensky
1993). The present approach has been called 'a primary-accent first theory' (see
van der Hulst 1984, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000a, 2002, 2009, van der
Hulst and Kooij 1994, van der Hulst and Lahiri 1988 for earlier statements; see
web page below for these and other references). I will demonstrate the workings
of the theory using a variety of examples from bounded and unbounded
(weight-sensitive and insensitive systems) taken from the StressTyp database
developed by Rob Goedemans and Van der Hulst
(http://stresstyp-test.leidenuniv.nl/).

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