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The role of synchrony: structural conditions on sound change| old_uid | 12323 |
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| title | The role of synchrony: structural conditions on sound change |
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| start_date | 2016/11/03 |
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| schedule | 15h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | bât. Olympe de Gouges, 1er étage, salle du conseil |
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| details | Chaire Internationale EFL 2016 |
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| summary | Some generative and post-generative models of synchronic grammar claim to predict possible and impossible phonological systems. Within Evolutionary Phonology a wider range of synchronic systems is possible, with rare sound patterns attributed to the low probabilities of those systems arising through the transmission of spoken language from one generation to the next through time and space. In contrast, where models of synchronic grammar may ignore diachronic explanations, Evolutionary Phonology attempts to model synchronic properties that may inhibit or facilitate particular types of sound change or category evolution. Lecture 3 looks at several cases where specific pre-existing structural conditions appear to be associated with specific types of sound change, including medial-vowel syncope, final-consonant loss, and *kl > *tl. This lecture will also highlight the role of lexical competition in sound change as modeled in Blevins & Wedel (2009). |
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| responsibles | Isel |
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