NYU Linguistics

Marina Tzakosta from U. of Crete is visiting the department, next Tuesday, Nov 3.
Marina got her PhD recently from Leiden. Her Promotor (Dutch nomencl.) was
Vincent van Heuven, her supervisor was Jeroen van de Weijer and the external
reader was John J. McCarthy. In general, Marina's work is on prosody and the
acquisition of phonology.

Title and abstract of her talk @ 1:30, next Tuesday, Nov 3 are as follows ....

"Exploring the representation of complex segments: the case of Greek affricates"

ABSTRACT (examples and references can be found here [pdf])

PEP lab seminar series talks will take place in the classroom on the first floor of 10 Washington Place.

10/22/09: Amanda Miller
11am-12:15pm: Corrected High-Speed Anchored Ultrasound with Software Alignment
12:30pm-2pm: The Representation of Complex Segments (abstract in pdf)

11/09/09: Sharon Peperkamp
12:30pm-2pm: Early phonological acquisition: computational and experimental approaches

11/12/09: Albert Costa
12:30pm-2pm: Advantages and Costs of being a Bilingual Speaker

Two talks will take place in the classroom on the first floor of 10 Washington Place on Oct 22, 2009.

11am-12:15pm: Corrected High-Speed Anchored Ultrasound with Software Alignment
12:30pm-2pm: The Representation of Complex Segments (abstract in pdf)

For more information about events in the Phonetics and Experimental Phonology lab, click here.

In the Fall of 2009, the Phonetics and Experimental Phonology Lab will meet every other Tuesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on the 5th floor of 10 Washington Place. For the most up-to-date schedule and other information, please check out the Lab's website. The current line-up:

9/29: Maria Gouskova
10/13: Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
10/20: Kevin Roon and Adamantios Gafos
10/27: TBA
11/13: TBA
11/24: TBA
12/8: Adam Buchwald

Gaja Jarosz (Yale) will be presenting a talk on Friday, May 1st at 2:30 in the Linguistics Department Library.

Title: Learning of Phonology: Integrating Developmental and Computational Perspectives

Abstract:

Anthi Revithiadou (University of the Aegean)

"Recursivity of the Phonological Word as the Result of the Interface"

Thursday, October 2 at 12:30pm
726 Broadway, 7th floor
Conference room

In this talk, we will address the notion of recursivity (REC) in the
phonological word (PW). We start with the question of whether such a
constituent is necessitated in phonological theory and explore alternatives
that have recently been proposed against recursion (e.g. Vogel?s (2006, in
press) Composite Group). We will also demonstrate that much of the confusion
surrounding the notion of phonological recursion in the literature arises from
the fact that inconsistent arguments have been put forward in support of
PW-REC, in which the burden of proof primarily falls on showing that an element
is not part of a certain prosodic category rather than on establishing its REC
status. Following Kabak & Revithiadou (in press), we will argue that recursion
is not an inherent property of phonology, but rather the by-product of its
interface with morpho-syntax as reflected in two types of structures: (a)
Inherently recursive morphosyntactic structures such as certain types of
compound constructions and (b) certain types of clitics which adjoin to their
host after moving from their base-generated position (Spyropoulos 1999). The
present proposal will be substantiated with empirical evidence from Greek and
Turkish.

Shinichiro Ishihara

"Independence of Focus from Prosodic Phrasing: Evidence from Japanese"

Focus intonation (FI) in Tokyo Japanese has often been analyzed in terms of prosodic phrasing (Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988, Nagahara 1994, Truckenbrodt 1995, among others). In this line of analysis, an FI is analyzed
as a large MaP created by manipulating (i.e., inserting and deleting) MaP boundaries.

In this talk, I will present phonetic differences between FI and MaP boundaries, based on an experiment which examines phonetic effects of focus and syntactic boundaries independently. I will propose that MaP and FI are computed according to independent mechanisms: MaP phrasing according to a syntax-prosody mapping principle, and FI according to relative prominence.

The experimental results also indicates that MaP phrasing, which would be assumed to be non-recursive under the Strict Layer Hypothesis, shows recursivity.

Thursday, September 18 @ 11:30am
Linguistics department library
Talk: Jen Hay
Hearing /r/-sandhi

An exploration of the status of linking /r/ and intrusive /r/ via a series of phoneme-monitoring experiments on New Zealand English.

Click below for schedules and abstracts from the NYU Linguistics Phonetics/Phonology Lecture Series.

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