Donca Steriade

A collection of essays on the word by colleagues, students, and teachers of linguist Paul Kiparsky that reflects his distinctive focus and his influence on the field. Paul Kiparsky's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions as a scholar and teacher have transformed virtually every subfield of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This collection of essays on the word—the fundamental entity of language—by Kiparsky's colleagues, students, and teachers reflects the distinctive focus of his own attention and his influence in the field. As the editors of the volume observe, Kiparsky approaches words much as a botanist approaches plants, fascinated equally by their beauty, their structure, and their evolution. The essays in this volume reflect these multiple perspectives. The contributors discuss phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics bearing on the formal composition of the word; historical linguistic developments emphasizing the word's simultaneous idiosyncratic character and participation in a system; and metrical and poetic forms showing the significance of Kiparsky's ideas for literary theory. Collectively they develop the overarching idea that the nature of the word is not directly observable but nonetheless inferable. ContributorsStephen R. Anderson, Arto Anttila, Juliette Blevins, Geert Booij, Young-mee Yu Cho, Cleo Condoravdi, B. Elan Dresher, Andrew Garrett, Carlos Gussenhoven, Morris Halle, Kristin Hanson, Bruce Hayes, Larry M. Hyman, Sharon Inkelas, S. D. Joshi, René Kager, Ellen Kaisse, Aditi Lahiri, K. P. Mohanan, Tara Mohanan, Cemil Orhan Orgun, Christopher Piñón, William J. Poser, Douglas Pulleyblank, J. A. F. Roodbergen, Háj Ross, Patricia Shaw, Galen Sibanda, Donca Steriade, John Stonham, Stephen Wechsler, Dieter Wunderlich, Draga Zec

24.901 is designed to give you a preliminary understanding of how the sound systems of different languages are structured, how and why they may differ from each other. The course also aims to provide you with analytical tools in phonology, enough to allow you to sketch the analysis of an entire phonological system by the end of the term. On a non-linguistic level, the couse aims to teach you by example the virtues of formulating precise and explicit descriptive statements; and to develop your skills in making and evaluating arguments

This study has two goals. One is to analyze the metrical system of Ancient Greek and, to a limited extent, that of Latin. The other is to argue, starting from these analyses, that all foot construction respects preexisting constituents. Ancient Greek is commonly believed to have been a ...

222 DONCA STERIADE of a better cued contrast. The comparison between major place and apical contrasts is revealing because we know independently that their perceptual correlates have a different contextual distribution: this perceptual difference matches observed ...

On the first interpretation, identify is the morphosyntactic base of the derived word identifiable: this statement is justified by the fact that a morphosyntactic property of identify - the fact that it is a verb - is a prerequisite for the affixation of -able. On a second interpretation, ...

This is a study of paradigmatic relations and of their significance for the link between phonology and phonetics *. A paradigm is a set of words sharing a morpheme of phrases sharing a word (e.g.{bomb, the bomb, ...}). The main component of the analyses presented here is the preference for uniform paradigms, that is paradigms sharing contextually invariant morphemes. A Paradigm Uniformity (PU) condition is a statement of the type shown in (1), which promotes invariance of some sound property within a given paradigm: (1) All surface realizations of µ, where µ is the morpheme shared by the members of paradigm x, must have identical values for property P. Examples of uniform and non-uniform paradigms appear in (2). In both cases, the shared morpheme is a root: it alternates in (2.a), but is invariant in (2.b). (2) a. {bAm, bAmb-Ard, bAmb-Ard-i " }: not uniform wrt stem final C quality b. {bAm, bAm-IN, bAm-" , bAm-z}: uniform wrt stem final C quality I discuss here the phenome...

Romanian phonology is shown to be subject to inflection dependence, a systematic restriction on phonological alternations. Inflection dependence means that segmental alternations are permitted in the derivatives of a lexeme only if certain inflected forms of that lexeme, its inflectional bases (Albright 2002), independently display the alternation. The study documents this pervasive constraint on alternations and proposes an analysis for it, based on a modified variant of Lexical Conservatism (Steriade 1999b). The broader significance of inflection dependence is the need to allow access in phonological computations to a broader class of lexically-related, derived lexical items relative to what the phonological cycle (Chomsky et al. 1956) and its descendants permit. I discuss the difference between inflection dependence and the phonological cycle and propose a mechanism that reduces the formal differences between them to rankings of correspondence and phonotactics.

PHONOTACTICS Donca Steriade, UCLA Abstract Phonotactic statements characterize contextual restrictions on the occurrence of segments or feature values. This study argues that consonantal phonotactics are best understood as syllable-independent, string-based conditions reflecting positional differences in the perceptibility of contrasts. The analyses proposed here have better empirical coverage compared to syllable-based analyses that link a consonant's feature realization to its syllabic position. Syllable-based analyses require identification of word-medial syllabic divisions; the account proposed here does not and this may be a significant advantage. Word-medial syllableedges are, under specific conditions, not uniformly identified by speakers; but comparable variability does not exist for phonotactic knowledge. The paper suggests that syllableindependent conditions define segmental phonotactics, and that word-edge phonotactics, in turn, are among the guidelines used by speake...

List of contributors List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: the phonetic bases of phonological Markedness Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade 2. A review of perceptual cues and cue robustness Richard Wright 3. Place assimilation Jongho Jun 4. The typology of rounding harmony Abigail R. Kaun 5. The evolution of metathesis Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett 6. The role of contrast-specific and language-specific phonetics in contour tone distribution Jie Zhang 7. Vowel reduction Katherine M. Crosswhite 8. Contrast and perceptual distinctiveness Edward Flemming 9. Syllable weight Matthew Gordon 10. Consonant lenition Robert Kirchner 11. Language processing and segmental OCP effects Stefan A. Frisch Index.

Latin has a large group of derivatives whose suffixes appear to attach to the stem of the verb’s passive participle. The agent noun caesor ‘cutter’ is an example: inside caesor there is a stem caesthat is identical to that of the participle caesus, -ī ‘which has been cut-masc.-sg’, from the verb caedere. The same stem caesappears in other derivatives: caesiō ‘an act of cutting’, caesūra ‘a cutting, separation’, caesus, -ūs ‘the fact of cutting’, caesim ‘by cutting’. Other deverbal forms add their suffixes to the root: e.g. caedēs ‘a cutting down, carnage’ and caeduus ‘fit for cutting’. What is striking about this data is that no syntactic property is shared exclusively by the forms using caes-, or by their complement set using caed-. What then is the rationale for the stem selection? Why did Latin choose caes-or over *caed-or, but caed-ēs over *caes-ēs? This is what we set out to explain. This Latin pattern is an instance of a general morphological phenomenon. I call it syntacticall...

" Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory is a textbook, written for introductory courses in linguistic theory for undergraduate linguistics majors and first year graduate students. Twelve major figures in the field bring their expertise to each of the core areas of the field morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, and language acquisition.

This study explores the hypothesis that the invariant properties characterizing lexical items include non contrastive phonetic details such as the amount of linguopalatal contact, or aspects of inter-gestural timing. We show that, in French, a sequence of consonants resulting from the loss of schwa maintains some of the fine articulatory characteristics of the lexical form containing schwa. Such characteristics distinguish this sequence of consonants from an underlying cluster. Thus, we show that "d'role" 'some role', with the apostrophe indicating schwa loss, remains articulatorily distinct from "drole" 'funny'. A perception experiment shows that the two types of sequences (CC and C'C) are only marginally discriminable by French listeners. However, when the subjects identify correctly the two types of sequences, the distinct characteristics identified in production play a critical role in the listeners' judgments.

This study has two goals. One is to analyze the metrical system of Ancient Greek and, to a limited extent, that of Latin. The other is to argue, starting from these analyses, that all foot construction respects preexisting constituents. Ancient Greek is commonly believed to have been a ...

Page 1. Complex Onsets as Single Segments: The Mazateco Pattern Donca Steriade (1995) Page 2. Die Idee von PP (Kenneth & Eunice Pike, 1947) Onset Subordinate Principal Principal Subordinate / nts Ɂ / n ts Ɂ ts Ɂ 2 Page 3. Konstituentenstruktur ...

... The assumption that the Yokuts root vocalism occupies a different plane from its consonantism is exploited by Archangeli to derive the facts of Gashowu Secondary Lowering: if the representation of the root !suduul-/ in Gashowu is as shown in (6), the lowering of the first vowel ...

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This study presents data showing articulatory differences between a sequence of consonants resulting from the loss of schwa and underlying consonant sequences. For example "d'rôle" 'some role', with the apostrophe indicating schwa loss, remains articulatorily distinct from "drôle" 'funny'. These differences involve non contrastive phonetic details such as amount of linguopalatal contact and aspects of inter-gestural coordination. Whereas distinctions such as "d'rôle" vs. "drôle"have been interpreted in the past as stemming from different syllabic structures, we propose an alternative. The comparison between the schwa-elided form ("d'rôle") with the lexical form containing schwa (e.g. "de role") demonstrates that the properties which set apart forms like "d'role" from underlying clusters (e.g. "drôle") represent in fact fine articulatory characteristics of the lexic...

... Phonetics in Phonology: The Case of Laryngeal Neutralization (1997) [34 citations — 1 self]. ... BibTeX | Add To MetaCart. @MISC{Steriade97phoneticsin, author = {Donca Steriade}, title = {Phonetics in Phonology: The Case of Laryngeal Neutralization}, year = {1997} }. ...