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Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Byron Ahn “How to Build “Yourself” Up: Reflexive Anaphors from the Inside-Out”

Campbell Hall 2122

Explorations of reflexivity have looked at how a set of reflexive anaphors distribute in larger structures (particularly in clauses), taking for granted that reflexive anaphors constitute a natural class to which the grammar can make explicit reference (e.g., with binding principles). In this talk, we will look more closely at how the internal structure of...

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...