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Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Maura O’Leary
Campbell Hall 2122American Indian Seminar – Sozen Ozkan
Campbell Hall 2122Chinese Lunch
Campbell 2125Colloquium: Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College “Phonological structure in a musical surrogate language: the Sambla talking balafon”
Royce Hall 314Insights from metrics (e.g. Kiparsky 1977, Hayes 1988, i.a.) andother artistic adaptations of language have long contributed to phonologicaltheory. This talk demonstrates how musical surrogate languages offer yetanother unexpected source of data for both phonological representations and thecognitive reality of grammatical architecture. I draw on the case study of theSambla balafon, a resonator xylophone with...