ICU LINGuistics Practical Workshops

What is SPOT and/or OT Workplace? (see below)

Organized by:

• Haruo Kubuzono (NINJAL)

• Seunghun J. Lee (ICU)

Sponsored by:

• ICU Linguistics Lab

• NINJAL collaborative research project ‘Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar’

• The Phonological Society of Japan

• The Phonetic Society of Japan

Questions should be sent to:

• linglab@icu.ac.jp

Schedule

(Th) July 15 & (F) July 16, 2021 [JST]

3 - 5 pm Software installation check

(note: if the times don't work for you, please contact us)

(Sat) July 17, 2021 [JST] SPOT App Tutorial

10 am - 11 am SPOT workshop

11 am - 12 pm SPOT practice

(Sun) July 18, 2021 [JST] OT Workplace

10 am - 11 am OT Workplace workshop

11 am - 12 pm OT Workplace practice

Notes

• Workshops and practice sessions will be held via Zoom

• No registration fee; pre-registration is required.

• pre-installation of programs is required prior to the workshop (further instructions will be sent on July 11).

• all sessions will be held in English.

• Japanese questions will be accepted.

Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: SPOT App Tutorial and Demonstration [LINK]

The framework of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004) has proved fruitful for analyzing the imperfect correspondence between syntactic and prosodic structure. The Syntax-Prosody in OT (SPOT) App (Bellik et al. 2015-2021; http://spot.sites.ucsc.edu) is an open-source webapp that facilitates the development of complete OT analyses of syntax-prosody data. SPOT has algorithms for generating syntactic and prosodic candidates, and evaluating violations of constraints, including Match (Selkirk 2011), Align (Selkirk 1986; Truckenbrodt 1995, 1999), Binarity, StrongStart, and many others. This workshop provides an introduction to SPOT and a demonstration of how we have used it, alongside OTWorkplace (Prince, Merchant & Tesar 2007-2021), to aid in theory development.

Calculating Constraint Rankings and Typologies with OTWorkplace [LINK]

Many Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004) analyses end at the point where they identify a constraint ranking that derives an observed pattern in the language of interest. However, a set of candidates and constraints actually predicts an entire typology, or set of languages. The contents and structure of the typology deserve attention as well. OTWorkplace (Prince, Merchant & Tesar 2007-2021; https://sites.google.com/site/otworkplace/) is a software tool which can take a set of candidates and their violation profiles, and compute the entire predicted typology, including rankings for each language in the typology. This workshop demonstrates how to: (1) set up a project in OTWorkplace (using data from SPOT, Bellik et al. 2015-2021), (2) calculate a typology, and (3) obtain ranking information for the languages in the typology.

Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT)

(taken from https://spot.sites.ucsc.edu/)

• an application which performs automatic candidate generation and constraint evaluation over prosodic parses for work in the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory.

• Various constraints from the literature on Match Theory and the Align/Wrap approach to prosodic phrasing have already been implemented.

• The SPOT application is designed for use in conjunction with OTWorkplace, a tool for manipulating OT tableaux, determining rankings, and calculating factorial typologies.

OTWorkplace

(taken from https://sites.google.com/site/otworkplace/)

• provides an environment for interactive research in OT, built on Excel.

• It implements the analytical tools of modern rigorous Optimality Theory, including Harmonic Serialism.

• Requires Windows, any version, and Excel, any version. Runs smoothly in Windows emulators on Mac.

• Installer package is large at 75MB and may require a short wait.