Last week, the SPOT group presented an organized session on Syntax Prosody in Optimality Theory at the 2021 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Junko Ito opened the session with an introduction to the SPOT project. Jennifer Bellik presented a tutorial on how to set up an analysis in SPOT, and Nick Kalivoda, Richard Bibbs, and Nick Van Handel presented theoretical results found using SPOT + OTWorkplace. Armin Mester concluded the session with some remarks on the value of including all candidates in an OT analysis.

Below are links to pdfs of the handouts and slides presented in that session. Thanks to the audience for attending and asking interesting questions!

Bellik_LSA2021_SPOT_tutorial_handout

Kalivoda_LSA2021_Japanese_Matching_Alignment_slides

Bibbs_LSA2021_aligndrivenChamorro_slides

VanHandel_LSA2021_SubcatMatch_slides

The SPOT team will present an organized session at the 2021 virtual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America TODAY at 5:15pm (PST).

If you’re registered for the LSA, join us on Zoom for a tutorial on how to set up an analysis in SPOT and calculate a factorial typology in OTWorkplace, and for talks about theoretical results found using SPOT on the need for both Match and Align constraints together to account for phonological phrasing in Japanese; the capacity of Align constraints to motivate leftward weak pronoun movement in Chamorro; and principled restrictions on subcategory sensitive Match constraints.

Schedule:

1. Introduction – Junko Ito
2. SPOT App Tutorial – Jennifer Bellik
3. Case study 1: Phonological phrasing in Japanese – Nick Kalivoda
4. Case study 2: Align-driven clitic movement in Chamorro – Richard Bibbs
5. Case study 3: Investigating subcategory-sensitive Match constraints in SPOT – Nicholas Van Handel
6. Question period and concluding remarks – Armin Mester

Read all the abstracts here: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/system/files/abstracts/summary/SPOT%20Tutorial_0.pdf