The SYNC (SunyYaleNyuCuny) conference - formerly CUNY/SUNY/NYU - is a one day mini-conference with emphasis on
Stonybrook,Yale, NYU, and CUNY graduate student participation. The
conference will feature keynote speaker David Pesetsky (MIT) and short talks by graduate
students in any linguistic subfield.
This is an annual conference that serves as a platform for
linguistics graduate students and faculty from area universities to
disseminate research results, exchange ideas, and more broadly, foster a sense of community. This year's conference is held on Saturday, December 5th at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in the William Harkness Hall (WLH) Building, 100 Wall St. Events prior to 3PM will take place in Sudler Recital Hall, and events after 3PM will take place in Room 116. Quick links: » Program with locations and abstracts of all presenters. » Online Registration: There is no registration free, but registration is required. » Directions and transportation information. Other events at Yale: Friday Lunch Talk Bridget Samuels (University of Maryland)
"What can syntax do for phonology? A case study in Basque"
Friday, Dec. 4th, 12 PM in 'LingSem' (Room 201), 370 Temple St. Abstract: In this talk I present an analysis of vowel assimilation in Lekeitio Basque based on a direct approach to the PF interface, which holds that phonology is cyclic as a direct consequence of phases in syntax (Marvin 2002). Specifically, phonological operations apply at each application of Spell-Out, and are subject to the Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky 2001), which prevents ‘reaching back’ too far into the derivation. I claim that ‘morpheme-level’ phases defined by the DM categorial heads n and a (Marantz 2001, Marvin 2002) can replace Lexical Phonology’s hierarchy of strata, and that ‘clause-level’ phases (defined by v, ApplH, D, C, etc.) can replace the prosodic hierarchy. I use this framework to analyze two processes which affect vowels in Lekeitio Basque, arguing that these assimilation rules are lexical and as such can apply only between two adjacent morpheme-level Spell-Out domains. |