Miranda K McCarvel

University of Utah, Linguistics, Graduate Student

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I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah and Steffensen Cannon Scholar. I am currently completing my dissertation, which focuses on the implementation of Lexical Selection within Harmonic Serialism. In general, my research focuses on allomorphic variation, specifically looking at phonologically conditioned allomorphy, and examines what information must be relegated to the lexicon in constraint based systems such as Optimality Theory and Harmonic Serialism. I am interested in phonology, morphophonology, prosody, sonority, Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French), minority Romance languages, endangered languages, and language documentation/revitalization. In addition to theoretical phonology, I am also interested in the pedagogy of linguistics and linguistics in higher education
Supervisors: Aaron Kaplan, PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah
Address: Department of Linguistics
Languages & Communication Building
255 S Central Campus Dr., RM 2300
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112

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When the Local Minimum is not Enough: Incorporating Lexical Selection into Harmonic Serialism

This paper argues for the inclusion of Lexical Selection (LS; Mascaró 2007) in Harmonic Serialism... more This paper argues for the inclusion of Lexical Selection (LS; Mascaró 2007) in Harmonic Serialism (HS; McCarthy 2000; Prince & Smolensky 1993) in order to account for phonologically conditioned allomorphy. Using data from Jersey Norman French (Jèrriais), I show that HS cannot account for allomorphy that does not result in the emergence of the unmarked (TETU). In order to account for non-TETU allomorphy, HS must include the assumption that allomorphs are lexically listed, which is the underlying premise of LS.

To appear in the Supplemental Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meetings on Phonology.

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