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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Dave Cayado
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Dave Cayado \nMar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-dave-cayado/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Uriel Cohen Priva
DESCRIPTION:Four short investigations of short duration.\n\nI will present four interconnected investigations regarding the effects of short duration in the context of phonetics\, phonology and sound change. I’ll start with the observation that durational shortening appears to be a crucial causal factor in at least three unrelated languages (Ennever\, Meakins\, and Round 2017; Katz and Pitzanti 2019; Cohen Priva and Gleason 2020). I will argue that this causal route saves us from seemingly counter-optimization in information-driven consonant lenition (e.g. Cohen Priva 2017). Turning our attention to vowels\, I will demonstrate that contrast-elimination pressures on vowels would not result in a schwa\, but rather in a high central vowel\, and that the abundance of schwa vowels cross-linguistically would seem to follow from the loss of a perceived target alongside the maintenance of the need for a vowel (Cohen Priva and Strand 2023). Finally\, I will delve into individual differences in the degree to which speakers yield to phonetic pressures\, which turns out to be good for explaining the absence of unwarranted sound change (Cohen Priva and Gafter 2024).
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-uriel-cohen-priva/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Kelsey Sasaki
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Kelsey Sasaki \nMar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kelsey-sasaki/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jack Duff
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Jack Duff \nMar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jack-duff/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Florian Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Testing weak and strong definites experimentally across languages \nSchwarz (2009) proposed a distinction between weak and strong definite articles\, reflected in Standard German in the presence or absence of contraction of the article with certain prepositions (e.g.\, vom vs. von dem). Semantically\, the analysis took the former to be a situationally restricted uniqueness article\, and the latter an anaphoric article bearing an index\, just like a pronoun. In subsequent work\, numerous authors have applied this distinction to analyze contrasts between definite forms in a wide range of languages. While this cross-linguistic evidence supports the availability of the ingredients of the distinction in natural language in general (with some analytical variations and adjustments\, and quite possibly further aspects in play in certain languages)\, the basic semantic contrast remains subtle and has generally not been captured systematically in experimental investigations. I present data from a simple picture selection task paradigm where the contrast in anaphoricity is pitched against another factor\, that of typicality\, which do provide quantitative support of the posited contrast. Next\, I extend this paradigm to English to turn to a question vexingly left open in this literature\, namely whether articles in languages that do not seem to make such a contrast and only use one form for definites throughout\, like English\, are ambiguous or map onto either weak or strong articles. The final part of the talk adds in data from various ongoing collaborations that investigate yet more languages to work towards a more systematic and quantitative comparison of different forms across languages. I close by considering challenges that lie ahead in integrating this data theoretically. \nLocation: Royce Hall\, Room 156
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-florian-schwarz/
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