{"id":17123,"date":"2025-05-12T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17123"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:54:27","slug":"phonology-circle-5-12-si-berrebi-tel-aviv-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/05\/12\/phonology-circle-5-12-si-berrebi-tel-aviv-university-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 5\/12 - Si Berrebi (Tel Aviv University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Si Berrebi (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Absolute neutralization in Modern Hebrew? An experimental study<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Monday, May 12th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D831<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In a controversial analysis, Chomsky and Halle (1968) proposed that the underlying representation of the English word &#8220;nightingale&#8221; contains \/x\/, a velar fricative that never surfaces in the language. This state of affairs, where an underlying segment is never pronounced, is referred to as &#8220;Absolute Neutralization&#8221;, and the possibility of such neutralization has been under debate at least since Kiparsky&#8217;s 1968 &#8220;How abstract is phonology?&#8221;. In this presentation, I will discuss a phonological case study from Modern Hebrew for which the simplest analysis assumes an abstract pharyngeal consonant that never surfaces. I will present two experiments\u00a0that aim to probe Hebrew speakers&#8217; phonological knowledge in order to distinguish between an absolute-neutralization analysis and competing accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Si Berrebi (MIT) Title: Absolute neutralization in Modern Hebrew? An experimental study Time: Monday, May 12th, 5pm - 6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: In a controversial analysis, Chomsky and Halle (1968) proposed that the underlying representation of the English word &#8220;nightingale&#8221; contains \/x\/, a velar fricative that never surfaces in the language. This state of [&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-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","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=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17134,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions\/17134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}