Title
The paradigm in phonology: contrast, analogy, defectivity

The paradigm in phonology: contrast, analogy, defectivity

Date:  25.04.2005

Time:  14:15

Venue:  A1005

Description
Meeting times and places:
Monday, 14.15-16.00, A3018;
Tuesday, 10.15-12.00, A3019;
Thursday, 12.15-14.00, E2004;
Friday, 12.15-14.00, E1004;


Our guest lecturers for this course will be Miklós Törkenczy and Péter Rebrus from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and ELTE, in Budapest.

The course will span one week and will include approx. 10 hours of teaching. If you would like to come to Tromsø to participate in this course, you are welcome to attend. If we can be of any assistance in arranging practical matters for you, please write us. We also ask that you keep an eye on this space for updates regarding practical details.

Topic one: paradigmatic uniformity and contrast

The goal of this part of the lecture series is to show how notions of paradigmatic uniformity and contrast relativised to specific morphosyntactic dimensions can explain the organisation of paradigms. We will discuss a fairly complex system in detail, the Hungarian verbal paradigm, whose 'irregularities' are motivated by paradigmatic uniformity and contrast. This analysis is essentially within OT.

Topic two: analogical relations

Another related but different topic that we plan to explore is an approach which makes use of the intuitive concept of analogy in terms of the algebraic notion of proportions and dispenses with the need for underlying forms. We will give an outline of such a model.

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