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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2122 Campbell Hall
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-93/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T175000
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SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Kevin Liang\, Victoria Mateu\, and Bruce Hayes
DESCRIPTION:A wug-test of Catalan consonant alternations
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-kevin-liang-victoria-mateu-and-bruce-hayes/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T140000
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - TBA
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-tba-2/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T180000
DTSTAMP:20240110T131749Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Boyi Zheng\, “s/z: Sociophonetic variations in American Media Discourses of Islam”; Eden Moyal. “Doing being non-binary: The sociophonetics of coming out”
DESCRIPTION:s/z: Sociophonetic variations in American Media Discourses of Islam”; Eden Moyal. “Doing being non-binary: The sociophonetics of coming out \nContact: Megha Sundara
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-boyi-zheng-s-z-sociophonetic-variations-in-american-media-discourses-of-islam/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T130000
DTSTAMP:20240131T104400Z
CREATED:20240131T104400Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Chris Kennedy: Pragmatic Indecision
DESCRIPTION:Pragmatic Indecision \n\n\n\nVague predicates are obligatorily tolerant (Wright 1973).  For example\, the positive form gradable adjective ‘long’ cannot be used to draw a sharp distinction\, even when the facts of the context of utterance and the semantic properties of the sentence in which it occurs otherwise conspire to make such uses possible:  in a context in which there are exactly two salient objects A and B\, which are clearly but only slightly different in length\, it is infelicitous to use “the long one” to refer to the longer of the two; we must say “the longer one.” This despite the fact that the presuppositions of the definite article and the lexical semantic features of ‘long’ that underwrite a compositional account of the comparative ought to allow for such a use. In this talk\, I will do three things.  First\, I will argue that no existing account of vagueness — neither epistemic nor expressivist nor contextual nor semantic nor cognitive nor distributional — provides a satisfactory explanation for why tolerance persists in examples like the one above.  Second\, I will show that attempts to eliminate the challenge presented by these kinds of examples through appeal to a grammatical decomposition of positive form adjectives into a non-vague root and a vague “pos” morpheme are also unsatisfactory\, because they fail to generalize to other kinds of examples that manifest exactly the same behavior but cannot plausibly be analyzed in this way.  And finally\, I will outline an alternative\, pragmatic account of vagueness\, in which  application of a vague predicate constitutes a “vote” for a particular resolution of linguistic indeterminacy\, and tolerance emerges from a normative constraint treating such votes as subject to principles of social choice. This account is consistent with a transparent compositional relation between positive and comparative (in which the latter is derived from the former)\, and generalizes to non-adjectival cases of vagueness as well. \n\nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-chris-kennedy-pragmatic-indecision/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T110000
DTSTAMP:20240104T141349Z
CREATED:20240104T141349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T141349Z
UID:10000131-1709888400-1709895600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2122 Campbell Hall
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-92/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T140326Z
CREATED:20240124T140326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T140326Z
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SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Bruce Hayes and Donka Minkova
DESCRIPTION:A MaxEnt analysis of the Beowulf meter \nIf you would like to schedule a presentation\, please email\nBen Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-bruce-hayes-and-donka-minkova/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240305T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240305T140000
DTSTAMP:20240104T114546Z
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - Michelle Yuan
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-michelle-yuan/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T180000
DTSTAMP:20240110T131621Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Kevin Liang\, “Probing early morphological decomposition: the role of distributional and phonotactic cues”
DESCRIPTION:Contact: Megha Sundara
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-kevin-liang-probing-early-morphological-decomposition-the-role-of-distributional-and-phonotactic-cues/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T130000
DTSTAMP:20231005T103535Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Amy Rose Deal
DESCRIPTION:Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi (joint work with Emily Clem\, UCSD)Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work on case theory has taken the phenomenon of case dependency to challenge the idea that case is assigned via the operation Agree. Focusing on the Shawi language (Kawapanan; Peru)\, we show not only that patterns of case dependency can be captured via Agree\, but also that doing so opens up a new way of understanding the typology of global case splits. Ergative in Shawi appears when the subject is at least as high as the object on the person hierarchy—a global split pattern—and can be accompanied by explicit realization of the object’s features on the subject nominal (“object agreement on the subject”). We propose that ergative arises in Shawi when a probe on v Agrees with both the object and the subject\, transferring object features to the subject; these features are spelled out as ergative case and as object agreement. In general\, we show that dependent cases\, both ergative and accusative\, can be seen as a morphological outcome of syntactic Agree between a probe and a second goal\, realizing features on that goal that were transferred from a previous goal in an earlier step of Agree. \n  \nLocation – Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-amy-rose-deal/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T110000
DTSTAMP:20240104T141308Z
CREATED:20240104T141308Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2122 Campbell Hall
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-91/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T140250Z
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UID:10000145-1709136000-1709142600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Ben Eischens
DESCRIPTION:Multiply-triggered tone sandhi in San Martín Peras Mixtec
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-ben-eischens/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T180000
DTSTAMP:20240110T131337Z
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UID:10000134-1708963200-1708970400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar:  Open House: “Phonetics Research at UCLA”
DESCRIPTION:Contact: Megha Sundara
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-open-house-phonetics-research-at-ucla/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T130000
DTSTAMP:20231005T103440Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Viola Schmitt: Distributivity is Complex
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I show (based on joint cross-linguistic work with various collaborators) that distributive  — i.e.\, `classical’ — meanings for the universal part of the language (connectives and DP-internal quantifiers) correspond to bigger morpho-syntactic structures while the corresponding smaller structures have a weak (plural) meaning. This\, I will argue\, raises a problem for a number of current theories of scalar implicatures\, as the `classical’ universal expressions required as alternatives are structurally too complex to be accessible. To tackle this problem\, I will tentatively suggest an adjustment to the algorithm via which scalar implicatures are derived. \nLocation – Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-viola-schmitt/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T110000
DTSTAMP:20240104T141236Z
CREATED:20240104T141236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T141236Z
UID:10000129-1708678800-1708686000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2122 Campbell Hall
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-90/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T140211Z
CREATED:20240124T140211Z
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SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Zach Metzler
DESCRIPTION:Unstressable word syndrome in Central Sierra Miwok
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-zach-metzler/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T140000
DTSTAMP:20240104T114443Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T114443Z
UID:10000123-1708434000-1708437600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - Guy Carden (UBC)
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-guy-carden-ubc/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240216T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240216T110000
DTSTAMP:20240104T141204Z
CREATED:20240104T141204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T141204Z
UID:10000128-1708074000-1708081200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2122 Campbell Hall
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-89/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T140000
DTSTAMP:20240104T114412Z
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - Colin Brown
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-colin-brown/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T180000
DTSTAMP:20240110T131227Z
CREATED:20240110T131227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T131227Z
UID:10000133-1707753600-1707760800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Megha Sundara\, “How infants learn segmental phonotactics in their native language: Integrating insights from machine learning and adult and infant experiments”
DESCRIPTION:Contact: Megha Sundara
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-megha-sundara-how-infants-learn-segmental-phonotactics-in-their-native-language-integrating-insights-from-machine-learning-and-adult-and-infant-experiments/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T130000
DTSTAMP:20240117T103052Z
CREATED:20240117T103052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240117T103052Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language " (See below for abstract)
DESCRIPTION:Location – Royce Hall 362 \nThe department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). \nWhen the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language \nAbstract:\nTo what extent are the phonological systems of languages\, spoken or signed\, structured similarly if we assume that they both draw on the same linguistic capacities\, and to what extent is sign language phonology different due to the visual-manual modality it is transmitted through? One striking difference in sign languages is that two identical articulators (i.e.\, hands) are available for linguistic expressions. This talk will address the above two overarching questions through the lens of two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language. I will present evidence from complex word formation and phonological processes such as non-dominant hand spread (‘stability’ of the non-dominant hand across different signs) and weak drop (i.e.\, deletion of the non-dominant hand) to show that the phonological principles in the organization of a word and a prosodic domain in relation to the non-dominant hand transcend modality differences. I will also discuss the relevance of considering the aspects of simultaneity and iconicity in sign language grammar. I argue that each of these two modality-related properties\, i.e.\, an increase in simultaneous complexity and a prevalence of lexical iconicity\, shape sign language phonology. Finally\, by comparing deaf signers and hearing non-signers in their processing of weak drop\, I reveal that knowledge of a sign language mediates not only the way iconicity is leveraged\, but also almost all levels of the phonology of the non-dominant hand\, including lexical representation\, phonological repairs\, and phonetic implementation. Synthesizing these findings\, I support the view that a sign phonological system includes a mixture of properties that are modality-independent and others that are modality-specific. Crucially\, I highlight that the integration of these properties is specialized and mediated by the knowledge of a sign language.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-shengyun-gu/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T135431Z
CREATED:20240124T135431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T135431Z
UID:10000143-1707321600-1707328200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:(May be moved to Week 6) \nIf you would like to schedule a presentation\, please email\nBen Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-journal-club-13/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T140000
DTSTAMP:20240104T114341Z
CREATED:20240104T114341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T114341Z
UID:10000121-1707224400-1707228000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - Nothing to Wear Fest
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-nothing-to-wear-fest/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240205T180000
DTSTAMP:20240117T103038Z
CREATED:20240117T103038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240117T103038Z
UID:10000139-1707148800-1707156000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Connor Mayer: Are scalar models of sonority enough? Insights from L2 acquisition of English complex onsets
DESCRIPTION:Languages vary in their phonotactics: how sounds are allowed to be sequenced into words. For example\, although English\, Spanish\, and Farsi all have the sounds /p l s/\, English allows the complex onsets /sp/ and /pl/\, as in ‘speech’ and ‘play’\, Spanish only /pl/\, as in ‘playa’\, while Farsi allows no complex onsets at all. Learners of a second language (L2) often struggle with producing complex onsets that are banned in their first language (L1) and will commonly repair them using epenthesis: the insertion of a vowel to break up an illegal sequence. There is a robust asymmetry in repair strategies for complex onsets across languages: sC onsets are more typically repaired by epenthesizing before the cluster (prothesis; as in ‘stop’ → ‘estop’) while other onsets are repaired by epenthesizing into the cluster (anaptyxis; as in ‘please’ → ‘pelease’). One analysis of this asymmetry has been in terms of sonority\, the overall resonance of a sound: this proposal suggests that there is a pressure to avoid sonority rises across syllable boundaries (Vennemann 1988\, Gouskova 2001\, 2004). A second analysis suggests that speakers choose epenthesis locations that maximize perceptual similarity to the unepenthesized form (Fleischhacker 2001\, 2005\, Flemming 2008). \nIn this talk\, I will compare the predictions of these two theories against new empirical data from L1 Farsi/L2 English speakers. In the first part of the talk\, I will present the results of a corpus study and an experimental study\, which consist of recordings of speakers of varying English proficiency reading English passages. The results of these studies confirm previous observations that (a) sC onsets almost categorically undergo prothesis\, while other onsets undergo anaptyxis; (b) overall rates of cluster repair decrease as English ability increases; and (c) sC clusters are repaired more frequently and acquired more slowly than other clusters. In the second part of the talk\, I will present a maximum entropy optimality theory model of the experimental data. First\, I will show that constraint scaling can be used to model the effects of L2 proficiency on epenthesis paterns\, providing a starting point for more nuanced modeling of\nL2 acquisition. Second\, I will demonstrate that when the models are extended to encode the increased difficulty of sC clusters\, the perceptual account of epenthesis asymmetry beter predicts the data than the syllable contact account. Although the perceptual model makes errors in the overall rates of epenthesis\, it consistently predicts the correct type. The syllable contact model\, on the other hand\, fails to predict both the rate and type of epenthesis of many clusters. I will close by arguing that models that treat sonority as a scalar value\, such as the syllable contact account or the more recent NAP model (Albert & Nicenboim 2022)\, are ultimately insufficient to deal with the wide range of sonority-related phenomena observed in speech. I suggest instead that further study of the articulatory and perceptual reflexes of sonority will be important to ensure our models are both empirically and explanatorily adequate. Specifically\, I will suggest that the concept of ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’ variability (e.g. Latash 2012) from the motor control literature may provide a principled way to relate the perceptual and articulatory properties of sC clusters. – Connor Mayer
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-connor-mayer/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T135309Z
CREATED:20240124T135309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T135309Z
UID:10000142-1706716800-1706723400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Kie Zuraw & Paolo Roca
DESCRIPTION:Filipino word prosody: Evidence from textsetting \nIf you would like to schedule a presentation\, please email\nBen Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-kie-zuraw-paolo-roca/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T140000
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - Iara Mantenuto (CSUDH)
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-iara-mantenuto-csudh/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T180000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology
DESCRIPTION:Location – Math and Science 5200 \nTitle: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology \nAbstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation\, the one-by-one attachment of affixal morphemes to the root\, guided by morphosyntactic constituency via the “Mirror Principle” (Baker 1985). In this talk\, I propose an alternative\, parallel model of morpheme order that locates morpheme concatenation in the phonological component of the grammar. This model\, couched within Parallel Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004)\, generates morpheme order through the interaction of two pieces of the grammar. The first is “articulated alignment”\, which posits that every morpheme has its own alignment constraint (McCarthy & Prince 1993) which prefers it to be as close as possible to a specified edge. The second is the “Mirror Alignment Principle” (Zukoff 2023)\, a novel property of the phonology-morphology interface that dynamically determines the ranking of alignment constraints based on the morphosyntactic structure\, in a way that derives the Mirror Principle. This approach allows for transparent interaction between phonological factors and morphological/morphosyntactic factors in a single input-output mapping. I will demonstrate that this approach is necessary to properly explain the generalizations underlying ordering alternations in two atypical morphological systems. The first is mobile affixation in Huave (Huavean; Kim 2008)\, where phonological and morphological properties interact to trigger prefix/suffix alternations. The second is root-and-pattern morphology in Arabic (Semitic; e.g. McCarthy 1979)\, where phonological and morphosyntactic properties interact to trigger prefix/infix alternations\, which themselves inform alternations across far-flung components of the grammar. This adds to the body of research arguing for a parallel model of the phonology-morphology interface.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-sam-zukoff/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240127T140000
DTSTAMP:20240104T114512Z
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar - TBA
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom\, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/winter-2024-american-indian-seminar-tba/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:American Indian Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T130000
DTSTAMP:20240117T102950Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure\, timing\, and fortition-lenition patterns
DESCRIPTION:Location – Royce Hall 362 \nTitle: Prosodic structure\, timing\, and fortition-lenition patterns \nAbstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization\, intervocalic voicing\, and flapping take place in a component of grammar that governs the fine-grained temporal dynamics of speech sounds and their interaction with prosodic structure. I argue that these lenition patterns are different from other processes sometimes referred to as ‘lenition’; that they do not manipulate phonological features; that they lie on a broader continuum of prosodically-driven phonetic variation; and that they are implemented primarily through subphonemic adjustments to duration and the temporal separation between prosodic units. With data from Campidanese Sardinian\, I illustrate a schematic approach to modeling lenition as a language-specific property of phonetic implementation\, operating on prosodic structure and the output of narrow phonology.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jonah-katz/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T175000
DTSTAMP:20240124T135156Z
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SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Black Lehman
DESCRIPTION:Phonology and morphology in Avatime\, Dschang\, and Hän (practice job talk) \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91545617700 \nIf you would like to schedule a presentation\, please email\nBen Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-black-lehman/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonology Seminar
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