{"id":1898,"date":"2010-11-01T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2010-10-29T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:01:02","slug":"phonology-circle-111-sverre-stausland-johnsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/01\/phonology-circle-111-sverre-stausland-johnsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 11\/1 - Sverre Stausland Johnsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker:Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard) <BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Phonetic naturalness in Norwegian retroflexion<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday 11\/1, 5pm, 32-D831<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nIn some approaches to phonology, phonetically motivated processes are<br clear='none'\/>\ngiven a special status within the grammar. Under this view,<br clear='none'\/>\nphonetically motivated processes are cross-linguistically common<br clear='none'\/>\nbecause the synchronic grammar favors it.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In other approaches, these processes are not granted such a status.<br clear='none'\/>\nUnder this view, phonetically motivated processes are common because<br clear='none'\/>\nthey emerge more easily over time due to errors in perception and<br clear='none'\/>\narticulation. The presence of a certain pattern is therefore caused by<br clear='none'\/>\nits diachronic development.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Since these approaches make the same predictions about phonetically<br clear='none'\/>\nmotivated processes (i.e. they should be common), one place to<br clear='none'\/>\nevaluate them against each other is within the domain of phonetically<br clear='none'\/>\nunmotivated processes.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In this talk, I present data from several dialects in Norway in<br clear='none'\/>\nsupport of the diachronic perspective, since it is able to make<br clear='none'\/>\ncorrect predictions about how phonological processes behave in these<br clear='none'\/>\ndialects.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>I end the talk with a discussion of experimental support, or lack<br clear='none'\/>\nthereof, for positing phonetic naturalness in grammar.<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Upcoming talks:<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nNov 8: Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (Potsdam)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nNov 15: Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nNov 29: RUMMIT Practice talks<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nDec 6: Suyeon Yun (MIT)<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>You can view the current, up-to-date version of the schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=g9h3t4vvah4ldicf80ko26l6hs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America\/New_York \n\">here<\/a>  (click &#8216;agenda&#8217; to see the schedule as a list), or subscribe via iCal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/g9h3t4vvah4ldicf80ko26l6hs%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\n\">here<\/a>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard) Title: Phonetic naturalness in Norwegian retroflexion Time: Monday 11\/1, 5pm, 32-D831 In some approaches to phonology, phonetically motivated processes are given a special status within the grammar. Under this view, phonetically motivated processes are cross-linguistically common because the synchronic grammar favors it. In other approaches, these processes are not granted such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}