Workshop: “Government Phonology vs. Natural Phonology”
Part I
Opening address: Prof. Edmund Gussmann
The talk will focus on issues that any phonological model should be able to deal with.
This will be followed by general introductions to the models of Natural Phonology and a standard version of Government Phonology.
Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Prof. Wolfgang Dressler (Natural Phonology)
dr Eugeniusz Cyran (Government Phonology)
The talks will attempt to concentrate on some of the issues sketched out by Edmund Gussmann and will present the principles within the respective models to deal with the formal aspect of phonological organisation:
Basic syllabification: supremacy of nuclei, precedence of onsets (onset maximisation, e.g. ci.ne.ma, co.bra), principles of phonotactics (sonority sequencing, e.g. veran.da, al.ge.bra), clustering at word edges (e.g. string, Polish pstry ‘gaudy’, Polish państw ‘country, gen.pl.), the problem of super heavy rhymes (e.g. paste, found).
Syllabic typology and markedness effects: the unmarked nature of CV ‘syllables’, markedness relation between clusters of rising sonority profile (branching onsets) and those of falling sonority profile (coda-onset).
Phonological processes: vowel epenthesis (e.g. Dutch har-p ‘harp’), vowel – zero alternations (e.g. Polish sen – snu ‘dream/gen.sg.), compensatory lengthening (e.g. OE nixt > ni:t > nait ‘night’), closed syllable shortening (e.g. keep – kept).
The above topics will receive only a brief description of how the models deal with such aspects of phonological organisation. The examples chosen in the talks will be similar to facilitate the comparison of the frameworks.
Each presentation will be followed by a brief question period (clarification only). A longer period of discussion will ensue once both models are introduced.
Part II
The second part of the workshop will involve individual presentations of papers within the two models followed by brief question periods and longer discussion periods if necessary. The topics of these presentations may vary more, including such issues as melody – prosody interaction, morphophonology, morphology – phonology interaction. It is also possible that the presentations represent different versions of Natural Phonology or standard Government Phonology.