The formal status of opacity: typology and learnability
Event Description
Abstract: Theory-internal work on opacity in phonology has been focused on the challenges these interactions present for one theory (rules, constraints) versus another. But there has also been interest in studying the formal, invariant properties of opaque and other process interactions (Chandlee et al. 2018; Bakovic and Blumenfeld 2024), though these works crucially differ in their underlying assumptions. In this talk I will recontextualize Chandlee et al. (2018)'s result that opaque maps are ISL in light of Bakovic and Blumenfeld (2024)'s recent formal typology of process interactions, and this recontextualization will provide an answer to an open question about the k-value of an interaction map. I will then discuss the implications of this collective formal understanding of opacity for a recent model of lexicon and phonological grammar learning (i.e., Hua and Jardine 2021, Chandlee and Jardine to appear).
Speaker: Prof. Jane Chandlee, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Haverford College
Location: IACS Seminar room.
Speaker: Prof. Jane Chandlee, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Haverford College
Location: IACS Seminar room.
