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SUMMARY:Michael Wagner: "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning"
DESCRIPTION:CrISP is proud to present: \nMichael Wagner (McGill University): “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning” \nEnglish -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs\, [iŋ] and [in]. Across different varieties of English this variation has been shown to depend on gender\, speaking style\, and socio-economic factors (Fischer\, 1958; Labov\, 1972; Trudgill\, 1972). Phonological context has also been shown to be relevant (Houston\, 1985): the allomorph [in] is more likely when a coronal segment follows. Strictly localist theories of morphology (e.g.\, Bobaljik\, 2000; Embick\, 2010) predict that the phonological context should only be able to affect allomorph selection under syntactic locality conditions. Globalist theories (e.g.\, theories of allomorph choice formulated within standard optimality theory) predict that in principle any information in a linguistic representation could affect allomorph choice. This paper reports on experimental data involving -ing-allomorphy that seems incompatible with both types of theories.\nAs illustrated in (1) and (2)\, we crossed the syntactic environment (local vs. non-local) with the phonological environment (a-[ə] vs. the-[ð])\, using a syntactic contrast familiar from studies of prosodic phrasing (e.g.\, Itzak et al. 2010): \n(1)\nLocal:\na. Whenever the boy was browsing a book the game would fall off the table.\nb. Whenever the boy was browsing the book the game would fall off the table. \n(2)\nNon-Local:\na. Whenever the boy was browsing a book would fall off the table.\nb. Whenever the boy was browsing the book would fall off the table. \nLocalist theories predict that the phonological context should be able to affect the choice of allomorph when the word providing the phonological environment is syntactically local as in (1)\, but not when it is part of the next sentence (2). Globalist theories predict that phonological context should be relevant in both types of cases. \nThe results show an effect of phonology both in (1) and (2). This is unexpected under the localist account. However\, the effect is much smaller in (2)\, which is unexpected under the globalist account. \nThe interaction between phonology and syntax suggests that syntactic locality might be relevant after all. However\, within the syntactic conditions\, there is a quantitative correlation between the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the verb and its complement and the liklihood of a phonological effect of the following word. In other words\, whether the phonological form of the following word has an influence on allomorph choice depends gradiently on the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the two words even within the same syntactic condition. Once these quantitative measures of boundary strength are taken into account\, the effect of between syntactic conditions vanishes: the difference between (1) and (2) in the size of the phonological effect is completely explicable as a result of the difference in boundary strength between the two structures. \nThe pattern of phonological conditioning can be accounted for by a model of allomorph selection that is constrained by the locality of production planning. The segmental content of an upcoming word can have an effect on allomorph choice if its phonological form is already available at the time of vocabulary insertion. The strength of a prosodic boundary negatively correlates with the availability of the following word\, and can thus serve as a proxy measure for the locality of production planning. \nThe data suggests that the phonological effect on allomorph choice\, at least in this case\, can be stated in purely segmental terms. The apparent effect of syntax on the phonologically conditioning of allomorph choice can be explained by its indirect effect on the likelihood that the phonological material of the upcoming word is already planned out at time when allomorph selection happens. This suggests a more modular view of the syntax/morph-phonology interaction across word boundaries than current approaches that assume an interleaving of phonology and syntax. \nThe account in terms of the locality of production planning provides a potential explanation why individuals in our experiment and the dialects described in the literature only seem to vary in the proportion with which they choose the allomorphs (from almost always [in] to almost always [iŋ])\, but none seem to show a complementary distribution according to phonological or syntactic context: the reason is that the conditioning environment is only probabilistically available depending on how much planning is been possible\, and this varies depending on the structure of sentence and other factors. In other words\, there might be a reason why ing-allomorph selection is consistently a variable process: reliably planning out an entire utterance in all its phonological detail is difficult if not impossible. Other cases of phonologically conditioned allomorphy are considered and their amenability to an account in terms of the locality of production planning is discussed. \nCrosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) s a collaborative research group within the UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University Linguistics Departments.  Generous support has been provided by the UC Humanities Network\, the Tanya Honig Fund for Linguistics Graduate Students\, and Stanford University Linguistics research funding.  Staff support provided by the Institution for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-wagner-2/
LOCATION:Stanford University
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SUMMARY:Colin Koopman: "Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault's Self-Transformative Ethics"
DESCRIPTION:Michel Foucault’s late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault.  I offer a distinction between ethical ‘orientations’ and ethical ‘commitments’.  Rather than offering substantive normative content\, I argue\, Foucault’s ethics are an attempt to specify a formal mode or style of ethical practice which can gain determinate normative content only in contexts of actual ethical practice.  The guiding ethical orientation in Foucault’s late writings is\, I argue\, self-transformation as a practice of freedom.  After defending Foucault along these lines\, I discuss how self-transformation helps us understand the relatively more determinate ethical conceptions of pleasure and parrhesia (fearless speech) developed in Foucault’s late writings.  I conclude with some sharp questions about the lack of sufficient determinate ethical content in these conceptions\, thus opening the possibility for supplementing Foucault’s ethics with the work of other self-transformative moral philosophers\, including for\ninstance William James. \nProfessor Colin Koopman (BA Evergreen State College 1998\, MA Leeds University 1999\, PhD McMaster University 2006) will be speaking at 4:00 on Thursday\, March 31\, 2011 at the Philosophy department colloquium held in the Cowell Conference Room. This event is free and open to the campus community. His area of specialty includes but is not limited to Pragmatism & American Philosophy\, Genealogy & Critical Theory\, Political & Social Philosophy\, etc.  Professor Koopman was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship (04-06) and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (06-08) for his work with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. More recently he received the Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship\, as well as the Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship (11-12). He has taught at UC Santa Cruz (08-09) and currently resides as a Assistant Professor at University of Oregon. He has also given courses as a visiting lecture at UC Berkeley’s School of Information (09).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colin-koopmanpleasure-and-parrhesia-in-foucaults-self-transformative-ethics-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
DESCRIPTION:In 1946-47\, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran\, by the shore of the Dead Sea.  Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran.  The scrolls\, which date to about the time of Jesus\, were deposited in the caves by members of a Jewish sect – apparently the  Essenes – who lived at Qumran.  In this slide-illustrated lecture\, we explore the ancient remains at Qumran and discuss the contents and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. \nJodi Magness holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. From 1992-2002\, she was Associate/ Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in the Departments of Classics and Art History at Tufts University\, Medford\, MA. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977)\, and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). From 1990-92\, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro- Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University. \nMagness’ book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls(Grand Rapids\, MI: Eerdmans\, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine. Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake\, IN: Eisenbrauns\, 2003) was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of non-fiction on the archaeology of Israel. \nSnack reception at 4:30\, talk begins at 5. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jodi-magness-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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