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Phonetics Seminar: Byron Ahn (Princeton), “In Search of Intonational Variation and Systematicity beyond ToBI”

Campbell Hall 2101K

MAE_ToBI, the gold-standard of intonation annotation for American English, aims to provide an annotation system of the categorical (phonemic) aspects of intonation. In this way, a single MAE_ToBI label is used for multiple f0 contours; thus, by design, many aspects of the prosody are not transcribed. If the ToBI labels are a primary source for...

Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Iara Mantenuro & Brice Roberts, UCLA “Classifiers as nP heads in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec”

Campbell Hall 2122

Abstract: In Mixtec, nominal classifiers can occur both in compound-like constructions and in nominal constructions with adjectives. (1) tí-ñòñò CFR:3animal-honey ‘bee’ (2) ti-lo’ò CFR:3sphere-small.SG ‘small one’ We claim that in both cases the classifier is the head of the noun phrase. However, while in constructions with nominalized adjectives the classifier has referential properties (similar to...