29 April: Amanda Miller (Ohio State)

Monday, April 29th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 What Can We Do with High Frame Rate Ultrasound: Investigating the Phonetic Basis of the Back Vowel Constraint in Mangetti Dune !Xung Previously, the main articulatory field method used to investigate place of articulation was static palatography/ linguography. This method is invasive, and contact patterns are smeared […]

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8 April: Erin Franklin (UChicago)

Monday, April 8th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 Backchanneling in Russian:  Form, Function and Occurrence Backchannels, otherwise known as listener response tokens, have been shown to occur quite frequently in the course of interactions between two speakers and they are considered to occur universally.  However as shown by Tottie, there is some evidence for backchanneling […]

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11 February: Chris Corcoran (UChicago)

Monday, February 11th @ 12:30 PM, Social Sciences 302 The authentication of Sierra Leonean refugees Competing ideologies of the acoustic characteristics of voice During the Sierra Leone civil war, 1991–2002, many European countries granted asylum to Sierra Leonean refugees. Those without documentation were given an opportunity to participate in a language analysis interview. There are […]

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