Debrecen08

Phonology and the Lexicon

Maria Gouskova

Phonological patterns are often disrupted by idiosyncratic lexical
exceptions; they also often hold only a subset of words in a language,
which may or may not be defined arbitrarily. A powerful theory of both
lexical exceptions and lexical strata situated within Optimality
Theory is constraint indexation (Prince an Smolensky 1993, Benua 1997,
et seq). The seminar will focus on issues in formalizing lexically
indexed constraints and examine some applications of the theory to
templatic morphology, morphologically idiosyncratic stress, and
lexically specific alternations. We will also consider some
alternatives, including representational theories and cophonologies.--

There is a website for this course at http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mg152/teaching/EGG/Phonology_Lexicon

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