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

“A Theory of Vowel System Typology Based on Confusion Minimization” - John McGahay “Prosody by Sentence Type in Haryanvi” - Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh

Cross-Linguistic Variation in Co-Speech Gesture Timing: Evidence for Grammatical Control Co-speech gestures have traditionally been treated as an ‘extralinguistic’ phenomenon, not implicated in theories of grammar (e.g. Hagoort & van Berkum 2007). In this talk, I discuss cross-linguistic findings on the coordination of speech and co-speech gesture that reveal clear evidence of language-specific timing patterns, a...

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

The semantics of high negation The goal of this paper is to provide a compositional account of high negation – negation that occurs in the left periphery and makes an...

Review of ASA abstracts

Rethinking the fundamentals of sentence comprehension A nearly self-evident fact about human language is that knowing a language consists of two systems: a list of terms stored in long-term memory (the...

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.