{"id":17992,"date":"2026-04-27T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17992"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:57:40","slug":"phonology-circle-jian-leat-siah-ucla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/04\/27\/phonology-circle-jian-leat-siah-ucla-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle  - Jian-Leat Siah (UCLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Jian-Leat Siah (UCLA)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>How Language Experience Reshapes the P-Map: The Case of Final Nasalization in Serudung Murut<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>, 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 this talk, I present my dissertation research testing Steriade (2001\/2008)\u0092s P-Map hypothesis, which posits that learners are biased toward alternations that minimize perceptual deviations between input and output forms. In the case of word-final voiced obstruents, the P-Map predicts that final devoicing should be the uniquely preferred repair strategy cross-linguistically. Experimental results from American English listeners in a perceptual AXB task support this prediction. However, results from Serudung Murut (Austronesian) listeners, whose phonological grammar employs (laryngo-)nasalization to avoid voiced stops in word-final position, demonstrate that the perceptual biases posited by the P-Map are not immutable but can be reshaped through exposure to alternations that contradict the P-Map rankings. This synchronic restructuring of the P-Map is especially evident among speakers with advanced proficiency, highlighting the role of language experience in phonological learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jian-Leat Siah (UCLA) Title: How Language Experience Reshapes the P-Map: The Case of Final Nasalization in Serudung Murut Time: , 5pm - 6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: In this talk, I present my dissertation research testing Steriade (2001\/2008)\u0092s P-Map hypothesis, which posits that learners are biased toward alternations that minimize perceptual deviations between input and [&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-17992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992","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=17992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18003,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992\/revisions\/18003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}