{"id":12177,"date":"2019-05-13T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2019-05-13T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:07:59","slug":"phonology-circle-5-15-boer-fu-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/05\/13\/phonology-circle-5-15-boer-fu-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 5\/15 - Boer Fu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Boer Fu (MIT)<br><strong>Title:<\/strong> Contrast Preservation in Mandarin R-suffixation<br><strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday (5\/15), 5:00pm-6:30pm<br><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The low vowel \/a\/ has three surface forms in Mandarin, a front [a] when followed by an alveolar nasal, a back [?] before a velar nasal, and a central [??] in an open syllable. This variation is called the rhyme harmony. My project looks into how these three stem forms change, respectively, in r-suffixation, where a diminutive suffix \/-r\/ is attached to the stem. In the two vowel-nasal forms, the nasal stop is dropped before the \/-r\/ coda. However, the back [?] retains its nasalization, while the front [a] is loses its nasalization. Zhang (2000) suggests that this is to maximize the contrast in degree of nasalization that is already in place in the stem forms. He also argues against a contrast preservation account because the front [a] and central [??] are neutralized, now that the nasalization on [a] has disappeared. This is indeed true in the Beijing dialect, which the standard Mandarin is closest to. However, I have found that in the Liaoning dialect, such a neutralization does not happen. And [a] and [??] are still distinguished from each other by the difference in the quality of the \/-r\/ coda. I argue that this is contrast preservation, and can be analyzed using MinDist constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Boer Fu (MIT)Title: Contrast Preservation in Mandarin R-suffixationTime: Wednesday (5\/15), 5:00pm-6:30pmLocation: 32-D831 Abstract: The low vowel \/a\/ has three surface forms in Mandarin, a front [a] when followed by an alveolar nasal, a back [?] before a velar nasal, and a central [??] in an open syllable. This variation is called the rhyme harmony. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12178,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/12178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}