Colloquium Talk – Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns
Location - Royce Hall 362 Title: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns Abstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization, intervocalic voicing, and flapping...
Colloquium Talk – Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology
Location - Math and Science 5200 Title: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology Abstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation, the...
Colloquium Talk – Connor Mayer: Are scalar models of sonority enough? Insights from L2 acquisition of English complex onsets
Languages vary in their phonotactics: how sounds are allowed to be sequenced into words. For example, although English, Spanish, and Farsi all have the sounds /p l s/, English allows...
Colloquium Talk – Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language ” (See below for abstract)
Location - Royce Hall 362 The department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai...
Colloquium Talk – Viola Schmitt: Distributivity is Complex
In this talk I show (based on joint cross-linguistic work with various collaborators) that distributive -- i.e., `classical' -- meanings for the universal part of the language (connectives and DP-internal...
Colloquium Talk – Amy Rose Deal
Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi (joint work with Emily Clem, UCSD)Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of...
Colloquium Talk – Chris Kennedy: Pragmatic Indecision
Pragmatic Indecision Vague predicates are obligatorily tolerant (Wright 1973). For example, the positive form gradable adjective ‘long’ cannot be used to draw a sharp distinction, even when the facts of...
Colloquium Talk – Jeff Lidz
Location - Haines Hall 220
Colloquium Talk – Edward Flemming – Generating and parsing f0 contours using a model of f0 production
I will present ongoing work aimed at developing a framework for formulating phonetic grammars of tone realization that can derive complete fundamental frequency (f0) contours from phonological specifications. The...
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....