Markedness and the Lexicon
Donca Steriade
Fri Jan 24, Sat Jan 25, 09am-05:00pm, 66-110
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The goal of this activity is to inform the students and faculty of current research whose aim is to dissociate knowledge of markedness laws (e.g. "Closed syllables are marked; open syllables are unmarked") from knowledge of absolute or statistical generalizations over one's native lexicon (e.g. "there are many more open than closed syllables"). There is significant research demonstrating that speakers have fairly precise knowledge of statistical trends in the lexicon; but relative frequency of phonological structures normally correlates with markedness (typologically unmarked structures tending to be more frequent) and thus most of the published work does not help dissociate the two kinds of knowledge. The research to be presented during IAP aims to do just that.
Contact: Donca Steriade, steriade@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
Latest update: 14-Jan-2003
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