Generative Phonology and Morphology. English Historical Grammar. Sociolinguistics - MA Seminar 3 3301-JFS3RU
The subject area of this seminar is modern phonological theories viewed from the perspective of the sound structure of English and Polish. The focus is on two are themes: Lexical Phonology and Optimality Theory. The seminar reviews the basic issues in these two theoretical frameworks by offering phonological analysis of the most important processes of English and Polish. Issues of theoretical interest include the following: the relation between morphology and phonology, the Derived Environment Constraint, the phonological cycle, postcyclic versus postlexical processes, diagnostic properties of cyclic, postcyclic and postlexical rules.
A further issue is how Optimality Theory can account for the processes of English and Polish that have been analysed in the literature in terms of the rules system. The theoretical issues here are the following: the role of faithfulness constraints versus markedness constraint and the treatment of opacity in Optimality Theory.
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Learning outcomes
A student will acquire advanced information about : Generative Phonology and Morphology. English Historical Grammar. Sociolinguistics - MA Seminar 3 and will develop his/her analytical skills.
Bibliography
Booij, Geert E., and Jerzy Rubach. 1987. Postcyclic versus postlexical rules in Lexical Phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 18. 1-44.
Kiparsky, Paul. 1982. From Cyclic to Lexical Phonology. The structure of phonological representations, vol. I, ed. by Harry van der Hulst and Norval Smith, 131-175. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
Kiparsky, Paul. 1985. Some consequences of Lexical Phonology. Phonology Yearbook 2. 83-138.
McCarthy, John J., and Alan Prince. 1995. Faithfulness and reduplicative identity. Papers in Optimality Theory. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 18, ed. by Jill N. Beckman, Laura W. Dickey and Suzanne Urbanczyk, 249-384. Amherst, MA: Graduate Linguistic Student Association.
Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint interaction in generative grammar. Oxford: Blackwell. [Revision of 1993 technical report, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Sciences. Available on Rutgers Optimality Archive, ROA-537.]
Rubach, Jerzy. 1984. Cyclic and Lexical Phonology: the structure of Polish. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
Rubach, Jerzy. 1985. Lexical Phonology: Lexical and Postlexical Derivations. Phonology Yearbook 2. 157-172.
Rubach, Jerzy. 2000. Glide and glottal stop insertion in Slavic languages: A DOT analysis. Linguistic Inquiry 31. 271-317.
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