27.3090, Diss: French, Phonology: Miranda McCarvel: 'Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection: Evidence from Jèrriais Allomorphy'

Wed Jul 27 15:35:55 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3090. Wed Jul 27 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3090, Diss: French, Phonology: Miranda McCarvel: 'Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection: Evidence from Jèrriais Allomorphy'

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry,
                                   Robert Coté, Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashley at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:35:30
From: Miranda McCarvel [miranda.mccarvel at utah.edu]
Subject: Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection: Evidence from Jèrriais Allomorphy

Institution: University of Utah 
Program: Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Miranda McCarvel

Dissertation Title: Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection: Evidence from
Jèrriais Allomorphy 

Dissertation URL:  https://sites.google.com/site/mirandamccarvel/papers

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Dissertation Director(s):
Aaron F Kaplan
Wendell Kimper
Abby Kaplan
Aniko Csirmaz
Rachel Hayes-Harb

Dissertation Abstract:

Harmonic Serialism (HS) is a constraint based theory of phonology that has
gained interest in the last ten years. As a theory of phonology, HS must be
able to account for phonologically conditioned allomorphy. Currently in HS,
phonologically conditioned allomorphy is analyzed in one of two ways – either
using a single underlying representation in HS or through the realizational
framework of Optimal Interleaving (known as Harmonic Serialism with Optimal
Interleaving (HS/OI)). Yet, using data from Jersey Norman French (Jèrriais),
this dissertation shows that neither approach can account for certain cases of
phonologically conditioned allomorphy. To remedy this deficiency, this
dissertation proposes the inclusion of Lexical Selection (LS) in HS in a
framework termed Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection (HS/LS). LS
provides for the lexical listing of allomorphs and, when needed, the ordering
of allomorphs in the input to reflect a grammar’s preference to use certain
allomorphs regardless of surface markedness.

Using data from Jèrriais, Dyirbal, Moroccan Arabic, Polish, and Catalan this
dissertation develops a full theory of HS/LS. It explores how GEN is conceived
of in HS, how allomorph selection functions within the theory, and how HS/LS
can handle certain cases of opacity. This dissertation proposes a revision of
the constraint PRIORITY, which is the LS constraint responsible for ensuring
respect of allomorph ordering, from a gradient faithfulness constraint to a
categorical markedness constraint. The incorporation of LS into HS is
important in that it allows HS to more fully account for phonologically
conditioned allomorphy.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

        Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3090	
----------------------------------------------------------