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Colloquium Talk – Ryan Bennett: Anticipatory nasalization in A’ingae

  Anticipatory nasalization in A’ingae: Language-specific phonetics, not incomplete neutralization (Joint work with Scott AnderBois, Shen Aguinda, and Hugo Lucitante)   Cross-linguistically, vowels often undergo contextual nasalization in and sequences. In English, vowel nasalization in appears partial rather than categorical. Cohn (1990, 1993) influentially argued that vowels in contexts in English are phonologically unspecified for...

Colloquium Talk – Sarah Phillips: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind

  In the bilingualism literature, most agree that the bilingual lexicon contains elements from both languages that can be activated non-selectively during processing (Kroll et al., 2013). Popular models of the bilingual lexicon often take an emergentist approach, such as Dijkstra & Van Heuven’s (2002) BIA+ model, drawing direct connections between form and meaning. A...