Flowchart corresponding to how information is channeled from the lexicon, to phonology and morphology. From Assignment 5. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Donca Steriade
Prof. Adam Albright
MIT Course Number
24.962
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course focuses on phonological phenomena that are sensitive to morphological structure, including base-reduplicant identity, cyclicity, level ordering, derived environment effects, opaque rule interactions, and morpheme structure constraints. In the recent OT literature, it has been claimed that all of these phenomena can be analyzed with a single theoretical device: correspondence constraints, which regulate the similarity of lexically related forms (such as input and output, base and derivative, base and reduplicant).