On Tuesday, we will finish up our discussion of “look-ahead”, and move on to some serial OT/HG explorations in OT-Help. We’ll hear from Claire on some work that she’s done on Chaha palatization, and we’ll discuss the results of submitting JJM’s files to the HG typology calculator. If you are interested in seeing how HG can do grandfather effects, you can look at my handout from the first UMMM.

Robert has done some updates to OT-Help. One that will be of interest for our upcoming discussion of targeted constraints is the ability to implement positive constraints. The new version is available on the software page, and the change log explains how to use positive constraints. Thanks Robert!

Thursday we’ll discuss the first four chapters of Crawley. Please bring a discussion point or two. Emily will also tell us about some new work on stress-epenthesis interactions in Harmonic Serialism.