{"id":10625,"date":"2017-11-13T06:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:05:57","slug":"phonology-circle-1113-erin-olson-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/11\/13\/phonology-circle-1113-erin-olson-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 11\/13 - Erin Olson (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/ekolson\/\">Erin Olson<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Influence of schwa duration on stress\/pitch patterns in Passamaquoddy<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> Monday, 13 November, 5:00-6:30pm <br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Passamaquoddy-Maliseet (Eastern Algonquian; Maine and New Brunswick) is well-known for the fact that reduced vowels are in many cases invisible to the stress\/pitch accent system (LeSourd 1988, 1993; Hagstrom 1995). While previous analyses have assumed that this invisibility is due to some sort of structural deficiency of these vowels, I assume that it is at least in part due to the phonetics of stress\/pitch accent. I will present a preliminary phonetic study of pitch and vowel duration in the language, based on data from the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary Project (Language Keepers &amp; Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary Project 2016). I will show that the syllables marked as stressed in the literature crucially involve a rise in pitch, and I hypothesize that the odd behaviour of schwa can be derived from the fact that it is too short to host either this rise in pitch or a fall from one pitch to the next. A brief sketch of this hypothesis in OT is provided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Erin Olson (MIT) Title: Influence of schwa duration on stress\/pitch patterns in Passamaquoddy Date\/Time: Monday, 13 November, 5:00-6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: Passamaquoddy-Maliseet (Eastern Algonquian; Maine and New Brunswick) is well-known for the fact that reduced vowels are in many cases invisible to the stress\/pitch accent system (LeSourd 1988, 1993; Hagstrom 1995). While previous analyses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10627,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}