A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

"Phonetics of Palatalization in O'dam"

“Overflow of the phonological planning window: Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi reanalyzed”

Prosodic Boundaries as Windows into Speech Planning: Timing, Meaning, and the Role of Focus Prosodic boundaries are systematically marked through temporal modulations in articulation, most prominently phrase-final (pre-boundary) lengthening. While this phenomenon is widely attested and often treated as a universal marker of prosodic structure, its scope and functional basis remain poorly understood. In particular,...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

“Perceptual salience of phonetic contrasts predicts their typological prevalence: Evidence from infant discrimination studies” - Rehan Muhammad & Megha Sundara “A Bayesian Account of Perceptual Asymmetries in Confusion Matrix Data”...

definite (?) enclitics in Tsotsil