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