35.2888, Calls: Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World

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Subject: 35.2888, Calls: Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World

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Date: 17-Oct-2024
From: Martin Krämer [martin.kramer at uit.no]
Subject: Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World


Full Title: Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the
Languages of the World

Date: 13-Mar-2025 - 14-Mar-2025
Location: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, campus Tromsø, Norway
Contact Person: Martin Krämer
Meeting Email: Phonological.Domains.2025 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology;
Syntax

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

Some phonological processes apply to domains smaller than a word,
others apply within word boundaries, and others seem to apply across
word boundaries in larger domains. The full range of variation in the
size and use of these differing domains is underexplored. This
workshop focuses on the empirical landscape of phonological domains
across languages and the theoretical consequences of this
cross-linguistic variation.

Whether phonological alternations are strictly local, in the sense
that one segment is affected by a neighboring segment, or not, such as
vowel harmony and tone spreading, they apply within a range of
domains. The boundaries of these domains are not always co-extensive
with word or syntactic boundaries. They sometimes apply in domains
smaller than words. These sub-word phonological domains are often
analyzed as due to cyclic application of phonology at distinct levels
or strata in Lexical Phonology or Stratal OT, where a sub-word is
built morphologically and one set of phonological operations applies
to the sub-word domain, often called a ‘stem’. Then word-level affixes
are added and a separate set of phonological operations applies to the
full word. Word-level affixes are not subject to stem-level
phonological operations because they are not present at the point in
the derivation where they apply. Other phonological processes seem to
cross word boundaries, affecting segments in more than one word; this
is often called phrasal phonology. Within the same language, different
phonological processes can stop applying at different points in an
utterance, suggesting the need for more than one domain above the
word. And these domains do not necessarily always coincide with
syntactic units.

A decades-long lively debate has asked whether the variation in
phonological domains across languages justifies the postulation of
ever more distinct phonological domains, whether this shows that
phonological domains are recursive, or whether these effects are
determined by syntactic domains such as phases or extended projections
that can be built cyclically. In this workshop we want to take stock
of how languages vary with regard to phonological domains and discuss
what this tells us about their nature and how the different modules of
grammar interact in deriving them.

Invited speakers:
Nick Kalivoda
Yuni Kim

Organized by Martin Krämer and Hannah Sande

This is the second of two workshops on the topic that we are
organizing. The first one was held in Berkeley in September 2024 and
focused on the conditioning factors for phonological domains.

Call for Papers:

We solicit abstracts of maximally 500 words contributing to the issues
detailed in the workshop description, which should be sent to
Phonological.Domains.2025 at gmail.com by 1 December 2024. If we receive
too many acceptable abstracts we take the liberty of arranging a
poster session. Please indicate if you only want your abstract to be
considered for a talk.



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