TALK BY NELE OTS – WEDNESDAY 5TH 4-6PM

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the phonology colloquium by Nele Ots, which was cancelled last year - Abstract below:   05.02.2020 Nele Ots (GU): "Conceptual and linguistic influences on sentence intonation: evidence from English and Estonian languages" Time: 16-18 Room: IG 4.301   Everybody is welcome!   Abstract: The study investigates how early phrasal F0 is planned in experimentally controlled but spontaneous utterances. Phonetic evidence indicates speakers preplan F0 declination (e.g., Yuan and Liberman, 2014). The phonetic F0 data was combined with eye movements to explore how well F0 of phrase-initial energy peaks (also F0 declination) relates to conceptual and phonological levels of planning in two typologically different languages - English and Estonian. Speakers described pictures of simple events with sentences of varying length (e.g., The girl is hanging the pink shirt/ the shirt with ladybirds vs. The girl is hanging a shirt). Importantly, the results showed that speech onset delays and F0 peaks were both affected by the length of the last-mentioned noun phrases (patient...
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Talk by Beste Kamali (Bielefeld) – Wednesday, December 04th, 4-6 PM

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the phonology colloquium  - Abstract below:   04.12.19 Beste Kamali (Bielefeld): "On the role of syntax in exceptional word stress in Turkish" Time: 16-18 Room: IG 4.301 Everybody is welcome! --- Abstract ---   On the role of syntax in exceptional word stress in Turkish   As a fixed final stress language, morphological processes that induce non-final stress in Turkish have attracted much attention. These processes are compounding, cliticization, and pre-stressing. Accounts range from purely phonological (Inkelas 1999, Inkelas and Orgun 1998, Kabak & Vogel 2000, Inkelas and Orgun 2003 a.o.) to recently mostly syntactic (Kahnemuyipour and Kornfilt 29006, Newell 2008). I will review the prominent findings and provide a rejoinder to mostly syntactic accounts with novel as well as interconnecting observations. ...
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Talk by Jason Bishop, Wednesday – November 13th, 4-6 PM

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
Dear all,   We are happy to announce the next talk in the phonology colloquium  - Abstract below:   13.11.19 Jason Bishop (CUNY): "Prosodic evidence for individual differences in speech production planning" Time: 16-18 PM Room: IG 4.301 Everybody is welcome! /frank Abstract: Evidence from a wide range of phonetic and phonological patterns suggests that speech production planning unfolds in relatively large chunks—chunks that are better defined in terms of phrase-level prosodic units (Keating & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2002) than in terms of one-or-two-word sequences (Levelt, et al., 1999). More recently, research in phonetics and psycholinguistics has begun to explore the extent to which planning might be flexible (Wagner et al., 2010; Krivokapić, 2012), that is, that planning scope is sensitive to both speaker-external (e.g. speaking conditions) and speaker-internal (e.g. cognitive limitations) factors. In this talk, I present data from a large-scale production study that bear on the role of a speaker-internal factor, namely working memory capacity (WMC). In particular, I argue that patterns of prosodic variation in these data are systematically related...
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Talk by Marta Wierzba, Wednesday 6th 4-6 PM

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
The next talk in the phonology colloquium will be by Marta Wierzba (Potsdam University) - Abstract below:   06.11.19 Marta Wierzba: "Focus projection: extending the empirical data base" Room: IG 4.301 Everybody is welcome!   In this talk, I present two experiments on focus projection in German. In transitive sentences, prosodic prominence on the object is compatible with interpreting a larger unit (VP, IP) as focused. Such a broad-focus interpretation is usually assumed to be less available when the subject or the verb is the most prominent element. In experiment 1, I use a new experimental paradigm to test whether this prosodic asymmetry carries over to sentences with wh-movement. In experiment 2, I investigate whether projection is also possible for a different information-structural category, namely contrastive topics (CTs), and to what extent CT projection follows the same pattern as focus projection....
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