Április 14-16. között az ELTE/MTA Elméleti nyelvészet szak és

az ELTE Angol nyelvészet tsz. meghívására

Curt Rice és Patrik Bye (Tromsoi Egyetem)

előadássorozatot tartanak

Az előadások címe:

- Curt Rice: Issues in the phonology of paradigms

- Patrik Bye: Perspectives on phonological opacity.

Az előadásokat három egymás utáni napon, 60-60 percben tartják:

Április 14. (szerda): 17.00-19.00,

ELTE Angol nyelvészet tsz (Ajtosi Dürer sor) 209. terem

Április 15. és 16. (csüt.-péntek): 16.00-18.00,

MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet (Benczúr u. 33.) földszinti előadóterem

Az előadások ismertetői:

(e.g. 3 x 60 minutes)

Budapest, April 14-16, 2004.

Issues in the phonology of paradigms Lecture series

Curt Rice, Tromso

The goal of this lecture series is to explore current uses of the notion of the paradigm, especially within the context of Optimality Theory. We begin with a brief review of McCarthy.s (2001/forthcoming) theory of optimal paradigms. The remainder of the course will consider extensions, critiques and alternatives to this theory. For example, the core notion itself - invoking the paradigm - has been challenged in some of the papers presented at the recent (Jan. 2004) MIT workshop on paradigms. Other work claims that stratal OT is a better option. Alternatives proposed by Kenstowicz and Burzio will be considered. The lectures will also include discussion of phonologically motivated gaps in paradigms (ineffability) and a proposal about how these might be analyzed within OP.

McCarthy, John. Forthcoming. Optimal paradigms. Paradigms in phonological theory. L. Downing, T.A. Hall & R. Raffelsiefen (eds.) OUP. (= ROA 485).

Perspectives on phonological opacity

Patrik Bye, Tromso

There are few phenomena which invite us to contemplate the fundamental nature of phonological knowledge quite like opacity. In this course, we will review the current thinking on phonological opacity from a variety of competing perspectives and venture some speculations about how such phenomena may be dealt with in future theories.  After beginning with the briefest of reviews of opaque rule interaction in Derivational Theory (counterfeeding and counterbleeding), we will turn to look at how opacity is dealt with in Optimality Theory using extensions such as Sympathy Theory and Virtual Phonology. We will see that there are a number of complex rule interactions (rule sandwiching) which Sympathy Theory is unable to capture. At this point we will pick up some of the recent (at times acrimonious) debate on the relative merits of OT and Derivational Rule-Based Theory which has featured in papers by Bill Idsardi and my own dissertation, which proposes an extension to OT, Virtual Phonology. In the final part of the course, we will stand back from these various solutions to the opacity problem and ask whether in fact there is an opacity problem at all. My primary concern here will be to provide some insight into the ways in which monostratal (e.g. declarative) theories of phonological knowledge may capture opacity phenomena without invoking computationally costly mechanisms such as extrinsic ordering (of rules or constraints), and in this way arrive at some vision of what is an appropriate division of labour for phonological theory as a whole.