{"id":13420,"date":"2020-04-27T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13420"},"modified":"2020-04-27T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:59:33","slug":"phonology-circle-4-27-danfeng-wu-yadav-gowda-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/04\/27\/phonology-circle-4-27-danfeng-wu-yadav-gowda-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 4\/27 - Danfeng Wu &#038; Yadav Gowda (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Danfeng Wu &amp; Yadav Gowda (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Practice Talks for Speech Prosody 2020<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Monday, April 27th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Zoom link: https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/97125338615?pwd=Q1VIcFJjVXNlRit4ZzBoYStjRmR1UT09<br clear='none'\/>\nPassword: 003447<\/p>\n<p>Title: Focus and penultimate vowel lengthening in Zulu<br clear='none'\/>\nAuthors: Danfeng Wu and Yadav Gowda<br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<br clear='none'\/>\nMany Bantu languages exhibit fixed placement of focus at the Immediately-After-the-Verb (IAV) position, which has been argued to be related to this position\u0092s prosodic prominence. Elements in this position appear at the right edge of a prosodic phrase, and are subject to penultimate vowel lengthening, which we take to be a form of phrasal stress which occurs at the right edge of every prosodic phrase. Previous literature has claimed that in Zulu, focus cannot be the most prominent element in a sentence. We present evidence from a production study in Zulu showing the contrary, i.e. the degree of penultimate vowel lengthening at the IAV\/vP-final position is greater than at any other prosodic phrase edge, lending phonetic support to the claim that this position is prosodically prominent in a sentence. We further show that the vP-final position is prominent regardless of whether or not it is focused, which implies that Zulu has a fixed position that realizes sentential prominence.<\/p>\n<p>Title: Durational cues to stress and phrasing in post-focal contexts in English<br clear='none'\/>\nAuthor: Danfeng Wu<br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<br clear='none'\/>\nI study two questions in English prosody through an investigation of post-focal contexts: i) whether an intermediate phrase must have a pitch accent; and ii) whether phrasal stress should be distinguished from pitch accent. The post-focal contexts are good test grounds for these questions because they are claimed to undergo \u0091deaccentuation\u0092, i.e. they lack pitch accents. This paper shows with results from a production study that intermediate phrase boundaries are preserved post-focally, implying that intermediate phrases do not have to contain pitch accent. Furthermore, there is no durational evidence that indicates the existence of phrasal stress in the absence of pitch accent.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Danfeng Wu &amp; Yadav Gowda (MIT) Title: Practice Talks for Speech Prosody 2020 Time: Monday, April 27th, 5pm - 6:30pm Abstract: Zoom link: https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/97125338615?pwd=Q1VIcFJjVXNlRit4ZzBoYStjRmR1UT09 Password: 003447 Title: Focus and penultimate vowel lengthening in Zulu Authors: Danfeng Wu and Yadav Gowda Abstract: Many Bantu languages exhibit fixed placement of focus at the Immediately-After-the-Verb (IAV) position, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}