There will be a meeting of the Language Variation and Change workshop this Friday, April 6 at 3:30 pm in Cobb 119. Please note the unusual location. Our speaker will be Alan Yu. Please see below for details about his talk. “Investigating South Asian Cantonese in Hong Kong from a phonological perspective“ Alan Yu (University […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, February 16th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be E-Ching Ng, who is doing her postdoc in the Linguistics Department. Please see below for details about her talk. “Word-final vowel epenthesis: An L2 sound change?” E-Ching Ng […]
Continue reading →Please join LVC this Friday, December 2 at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. It will be our last meeting of the quarter and our speaker is our own Jacob Phillips. Hope you can make it! “Retraction in Action: Examining phonological and prosodic effects on /s/-retraction in the laboratory” Jacob Phillips University of Chicago An ongoing […]
Continue reading →Monday, April 18th @ 3:00 PM, Pick 016 The Emergence from Tone of Vowel Register and Graded Nasalization in the Eastern Chatino of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca (based on joint work with John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) The Chatino languages (Otomanguean; Oaxaca, Mexico) generally retain the conservative Proto-Chatino vowel inventory: */a, e, i, o, u/, with […]
Continue reading →Monday, February 24th @ 3:00 PM, Kent 107 Investigating phonetic variation over time in the U.S. Supreme Court Phonetic research over the past two decades has shown that individual speakers vary their phonetic realizations of words, phonemes, and subphonemic features. What we have found is that speakers show remarkable stability over time, while a small […]
Continue reading →Monday, November 4th @ 3 PM, Harper 140 Magical ideologies of language change: Connecting micro-level variation to macro-areal diversification In many respects, historical investigation of the Bantu language family serves as a model application of the Comparative Method to a genealogical unit outside of Indo-European. The close relationship of hundreds of languages occupying the greater part […]
Continue reading →Monday, May 13th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 What are they?: Some Hidden Forms of the Copula in Old Irish It is uncontroversial that Proto-Indo-European *-nti# regularly becomes -t /d/ in Old Irish, as in berait ‧berat ‘(they) carry’ (< *bheronti). Nevertheless, my principal claim in this talk is that just in the copula, and […]
Continue reading →Friday, May 27 @ 3pm, Karen Landahl Center for Linguistics Research “Modeling variation and change in radoppiamento sintattico“ Abstract: The external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) in Italian has been a prominent topic in phonology for decades. While the existing theoretical literature treats RS as a regular phonological process, recent research has found that there is […]
Continue reading →Friday, April 01 @ 3pm, Cobb 301 Origins of Metathesis in Batsbi Abstract: Blevins and Garrett (1998) investigate in detail the origins of CV/VC metathesis in a number of languages and identify two types of metathesis and a “pseudometathesis”. For them, “pseudometathesis” is a synchronic process that does not originate through the historical process of […]
Continue reading →Liquid phonology: A test case for the listener misperception hypothesis Abstract: The listener misperception hypothesis of sound change (Ohala 1981, 1993, 2003) has been a fruitful area of inquiry over the past several years, in part because it makes testable predictions. One prediction is that long-distance dissimilation such as liquid (lateral) dissimilation should be a […]
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