Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian

Dolatian, Hossep; Guekguezian, Peter Ara

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“…While the argument we present can be made with the coarse split between ISL and sequential transductions, it would be interesting to explore a possible middle-ground between the two. Tierbased strict locality has been explored in various areas -including phonology, morphology, and syntax -as an extension of the strict locality underpinning ISL (Heinz et al, 2011;Aksënova et al, 2016;Graf, 2018;Burness et al, 2021;Dolatian and Guekguezian, 2021). The non-local case of allomorphy discussed in this paper may be describable along those lines.…”

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“…As for the verb, its surface prosodic phrase can be argued to either be a) epenthesized/inserted or created from no existing syntactic phrase (e ′ ), or b) derived from the vP (index 12). In the latter case, the vP is phrased to a small prosodic phrase that excludes its arguments; such mismatches in the size of an XP and its prosodic phrase have been called underparsing or undermatch in the literature (Elfner, 2015;Guekguezian, 2017Guekguezian, , 2021.…”

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Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

2022

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Speech consists of a continuously-varying acoustic signal. Yet human listeners experience it as sequences of discrete speech sounds, which are used to recognise words. To examine how the human brain appropriately sequences the speech signal, we recorded two-hour magnetoencephalograms from 21 subjects listening to short narratives. Our analyses show that the brain continuously encodes the three most recently heard speech sounds in parallel, and maintains this information long past the sensory input. Each speech sound has a representation that evolves over time, jointly encoding both its phonetic features and time elapsed since onset. This allows the brain to represent the relative order and phonetic content of the phonetic sequence. These dynamic representations are active earlier when phonemes are more predictable, and are sustained longer when lexical identity is uncertain. The flexibility in the dynamics of these representations paves the way for further understanding of how such sequences may be used to interface with higher order structure such as morphemes and words.Bio: Laura Gwilliams received her PhD in Psychology with a focus in Cognitive Neuroscience from New York University in May 2020. Currently she is a post-doctoral researcher at UCSF, using MEG and ECoG data to understand how linguistic structures are parsed and composed while listening to continuous speech. The ultimate goal of Laura's research is to describe speech comprehension in terms of what operations are applied to the acoustic signal; which representational formats are generated and manipulated (e.g. phonetic, syllabic, morphological), and under what processing architecture.

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Trees probe deeper than strings: an argument from allomorphy

Dolatian¹,

Ikawa²,

Graf³

2022

Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

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Linguists disagree on whether morphological representations should be strings or trees. We argue that tree-based views of morphology can provide new insights into morphological complexity even in cases where the posited tree structure closely matches the surface string. Our argument is based on a subregular case study of morphologically conditioned allomorphy, where the phonological form of some morpheme (the target) is conditioned by the presence of some other morpheme (the trigger) somewhere within the morphosyntactic context. The trigger and target can either be linearly adjacent or non-adjacent, and either the trigger precedes the target (inwardly sensitive) or the target precedes the trigger (outwardly sensitive). When formalized as string transductions, the only complexity difference is between local and non-local allomorphy. Over trees, on the other hand, we also see a complexity difference between inwardly sensitive and outwardly sensitive allomorphy. Just as unboundedness assumptions can sometimes tease apart patterns that are equally complex in the finitely bounded case, tree-based representations can reveal differences that disappear over strings.

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Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems

Dolatian

2023

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian

Cited by 6 publications

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Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Trees probe deeper than strings: an argument from allomorphy

Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems

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