G. Gallagher (NYU) le 15 Octobre =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A0_?=l'ENS (LANGUAGE Seminar; DEC-Linguisitique)

[maria giavazzi maria.giavazzi@yahoo.fr [parislinguists]]

Dear all,
Please find below the announcement of the LANGUAGE Seminar (LINGUAE; DEC-Linguistique/ENS) for Wednesday, October 15.


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SPEAKER: Gillian Gallagher (NYU)

TITLE: Asymmetries in the representation of categorical phonotactics

WHEN:  Wednesday, October 15st  - 11.30am-1pm [followed by a social hour, 1pm-2pm]



WHERE:  IJN/LSCP seminar  room, ground floor, Pavillon, 29 rue d'Ulm


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ABSTRACT:

An inductive learning bias in favor of constraints with the structural form of an Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) constraint, *[αF][αF], is supported by the results of a repetition task with speakers of Cochabamba Quechua. Cochabamba Quechua exhibits two categorical phonotactic restrictions: a cooccurrence restriction on roots with pairs of ejectives *[k’ap’u], and an ordering restriction on roots with a plain stop followed by an ejective *[kap’u]. The results are consistent with a strong phonotactic restriction against cooccurring ejectives, above and beyond perception and production difficulties, while the ordering restriction seems to be represented as a weaker phonotactic restriction with speakers’ behavior primarily reflecting phonetic difficulties. As both restrictions are categorical, the results support an inductive learning bias that favors constraints like *[+cg][+cg], which penalize sequences of feature matrices with the
 same value for some feature, over constraints like *[-cont, -son][+cg], which penalize sequences of unrelated feature matrices.

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