{"id":17097,"date":"2025-04-28T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17097"},"modified":"2025-04-28T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:04:00","slug":"phonology-circle-4-28-cynthia-zhong-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/04\/28\/phonology-circle-4-28-cynthia-zhong-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 4\/28 - Cynthia Zhong (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Cynthia Zhong (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Coronal consonant typology in Japanese<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Monday, April 28th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D831<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In Japanese, the voiced coronal consonants \/z\/ and \/d\/ used to contrast before high vowels \/i\/ and \/u\/, forming a 4-way distinction among \/zi, di, zu, du\/. A merger that began around the 16th century neutralized these contrasts to different extents in different regions in Japan, and today we could observe 4, 3, 2, and 1-way contrasts across various Japanese dialects. Furthermore, in the same high vowel contexts, there are asymmetries in the number of contrasts available for voiced coronals versus voiceless coronals. One notable example of asymmetry is found in Standard Tokyo Japanese, which maintains a 4-way contrast among voiceless coronals \/si, ti, su, tu\/ but neutralizes the continuancy contrast between \/d\/ and \/z\/, resulting in a 2-way contrast [(d)?i, (d)z?] in voiced coronals. In this talk, I will present generalizations about the typology of Japanese coronal consonants that I gathered from the Japanese linguistics literature, then I will discuss a sketch of an analysis for the realization of coronals in Standard Japanese using the P-map (Steriade, 2008). The hope is that some of the constraints proposed and the general structure of analysis would be extendable to other dialects of Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Cynthia Zhong (MIT)Title: Coronal consonant typology in JapaneseTime: Monday, April 28th, 5pm - 6:30pmLocation: 32-D831Abstract: In Japanese, the voiced coronal consonants \/z\/ and \/d\/ used to contrast before high vowels \/i\/ and \/u\/, forming a 4-way distinction among \/zi, di, zu, du\/. A merger that began around the 16th century neutralized these contrasts to [&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-17097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097","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=17097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}