Phonological Cycles - Winter Semester 2017/18

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A pervasive assumption in phonological theory is that phonological processes apply cyclically, starting with small chunks of morphosyntactic material and then extending to iteratively growing constituents which include the output of earlier cycles. This idea is already central in early rule-based phonology (especially the Sound Pattern of English, Chomsky & Halle 1968), system-defining in Lexical Phonology and Morphology (LPM, Pesetsky 1979, Kiparsky 1982) and Cyclic Phonology (Halle & Vergnaud 1987), and still crucial in most versions of Optimality Theory (especially in Stratal OT, Kiparsky 2000, Bermúdez-Otero 2011, Sign-based morphophonology, Inkelas & Zoll 2005, and asymmetric output-output correspondence, Benua 1997). Morphological strata as in Stratal OT can be seen as a special case of cyclicity where where the phonological grammar differs for specific cycles (or set of cycles). In this course, we discuss the classical literature on cyclicity in phonology, and central research questions, such as Strict Cycle effects, bracket erasure, and the cyclic evaluation of affixes.

Readings

Chomsky, Noam & Halle, Morris (1968) The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row. (chapter 1)
Pesetsky, D. (1979) Russian Morphology and Lexical Theory. Ms., MIT.
Pulleyblank, D. (1986) Tone in Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Reidel. (Yousif: chapter 3)
Kenstowicz, M. (1994) Phonology in Generative Grammar. Cambridge MA: Blackwell. (chapter 5: Lexical Phonology)
Clark, M. M. (1990) The tonal system of Igbo. Dordrecht: Foris. (Jude: chapter 3)
Chung, S. (1983) Transderivational constraints in Chamorro phonology Language 59(1): 35-66. (Johanna)
Halle, M. & Vergnaud, J.-R. (1987) Stress and the Cycle. Linguistic Inquiry 18(1): 45-84.
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (2050) Stratal Optimality Theory. (Yuriy)
Orgun, C. O. (1996) Sign-based Morphology and Phonology with Special Attention to Optimality Theory. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. (Sören)
Elfner, E. (2016) Stress-epenthesis Interactions in Harmonic Serialism. In: John J. McCarthy and Joe Pater (ed.) Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism. 261-300. (Bilal)
Wolf, M. (2014) Cyclicity and non-cyclicity in Maltese: Local ordering of phonology and morphology in OT-CC (to appear). In: John J. McCarthy and Joe Pater (ed.) Harmonic Serialism and Harmonic Grammar. London:Equinox.
Kiparsky, P. (2011) Chains or strata?: The case of Maltese. Ms. Stanford. (Fatos)
Newell, Heather (2015) Phonology without Strata. Proceedings of the 2015 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. (Daniel)

More Literature

Pesetsky, D. (1979) Russian Morphology and Lexical Theory. Ms., MIT.

Benua, Laura (1997) Transderivational Identity: Phonological Relations between Words. PhD thesis, UMass, Amherst.

Bermúdez-Otero, R. (2011) The Architecture of Grammar and the Division of Labour in Exponence. In: Jochen Trommer (ed.) The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence - The State-of-the-Art. Oxford University Press.

Halle, Morris & Vergnaud, J.-R. (1987) An Essay On Stress. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Inkelas, Sharon & Zoll, Cheryl (2005) Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology. Cambridge University Press.

Kiparsky, Paul (1982) Lexical morphology and phonology. In: I.-S. Yang (ed.) Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin.

Kiparsky,Paul(1985)Some consequences of Lexical Phonology.PhonologyYearbook 2.82-138.

Kiparsky, Paul (2000) Opacity and cyclicity. The Linguistic Review 17:351-367.

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