30.3314, Confs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonology/Norway

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Subject: 30.3314, Confs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonology/Norway

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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:25:54
From: Anna Katharina Pilsbacher [anna.k.pilsbacher at uit.no]
Subject: Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure

 
Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure 
Short Title: SPIPS 

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 20-Sep-2019 
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact: Martin Krämer 
Contact Email: spips.2019 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://site.uit.no/spips 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop on Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure
(SPIPS) will take place at the University of Tromsø from September 19-20,
2019.

The question of how suprasegmental and segmental phonology interact has
occupied a central role throughout the 20th and 21st century, with, for
example, the syllable and syllable constituents as relevant domains and
categories in the description of sound patterns and phonological processes,
rejected and revived several times (e.g., Stetson 1928, Hockett 1955,  Chomsky
& Halle 1968, Kahn 1976, Selkirk 1982, Itô 1986, Zec 1988, Inkelas 1989,
Steriade 1997, 2009, ...) and the discovery of a whole range of higher
prosodic units, the Prosodic Hierarchy, as central for the description of
phonological processes (Selkirk 1978, 1986, Nespor & Vogel 1986, Beckman &
Pierrehumbert 1986, Hayes 1989, Zec 1993). Despite decades-long discussions,
the following background questions have not lost their fascination:

- How can one capture the distinction between phonological processes that
apply to smaller units, i.e., within words, feet, syllables, stems, morphemes,
and phonological processes that take bigger objects, such as prosodic
constituents, as their domain in current models of grammar?
- How do phonological processes that apply within those units interact with
constituency as defined by morphology or syntax? 
- Are the units relevant to appropriately define phonological generalisations
derived from the structural constituency in morphology and/or syntax, or are
they defined independently?
- How do suprasegmental objects such as syllables, feet and phrases interact
with segments and their properties? 
- What is the appropriate way of characterising the restrictions imposed by
segmental considerations on syllable structure? 
- How are nonlocal processes such as vowel harmony and consonant harmony
conditioned by bigger phonological and non-phonological structures, such as
syllable, foot and morphological or syntactic structure?
- How do phonotactic restrictions interact with morpheme structure and
syllable structure? 
- Is it necessary to refer to prosodic units at all to describe phonological
processes?
- How do suprasegmentals such as tone and intonation condition segmental
processes or vice versa? 
- In what way can a system capture that a process of vowel lengthening or
shortening is conditioned by the prosodic constituency?
- To what extent are the observations made in phonology about domains,
cyclicity and the timing of operations transferrable to modern theories about
domains in other levels of grammar, such as syntax and semantics?

Invited Speakers:

Peter Jurgec (Toronto)
Heather Newell (Montreal/Tromsø)
Francesc Torres Tamarit (Paris)
Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig)
 

Programme:

Happy to announce the programme of the conference ''Segmental Processes in
Interaction with Prosodic Structure'' at http://site.uit.no/spips/programme/





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