{"id":2287,"date":"2011-02-28T05:04:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2011-02-28T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:00:07","slug":"harvard-phonology-talk-228-gillian-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/28\/harvard-phonology-talk-228-gillian-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Phonology Talk 2\/28 - Gillian Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent MIT alum Gillian Gallagher<\/b> (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University) will speak on Monday at Harvard.<\/p>\n

Title: Contrast and non-local dependencies
\nTime: Monday, February 28, 5:00pm
\nLocation: Boylston Hall, third floor, room 335<\/p>\n

\n

In this talk, I argue that long-distance phonological dependencies are
\n grounded in perceptual asymmetries. The analytical claims are <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. That laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions are restrictions on the
    \nperceptual strength of contrasts between roots, as opposed to
    \nrestrictions on laryngeal configurations in isolated roots, and <\/p>\n
  2. That laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions are restrictions on auditory, as
    \nopposed to articulatory, features. <\/ol>\n<\/p>\n

    Both long-distance laryngeal dissimilation, where roots may have one but
    \nnot two laryngeally marked stops (MacEachern 1999), and assimilation,
    \nwhere stops in a root must agree in laryngeal features (Hansson 2001;
    \nRose and Walker 2004) are given a unified account based on a
    \ngrammatical pressure to neutralize indistinct contrasts. The contrast
    \nbased analysis is supported by the empirical finding that certain non-
    \nadjacent sounds interact with one another in perception. Specifically, the
    \nperception of a contrast in ejection or aspiration is degraded in roots with
    \nanother ejective or aspirate, as compared to roots with another plain stop
    \n(e.g. the pair k’ap’i-kap’i is more confusable than the pair k’api-kapi).
    \nRoots that are minimally distinguished by having one vs. two laryngeally
    \nmarked stops are confusable with one another (e.g. k’ap’i is confusable
    \nwith kap’i), and thus languages may avoid having both types of forms. <\/p>\n

    The analysis integrates long-distance phonological neutralizations with
    \nanalyses of local neutralizations based on phonetic cues and contrast
    \nstrength (Flemming 1995, 2004, 2006; Steriade 1997), showing that both
    \nlocal and non-local phenomena are driven by grammatical constraints
    \nagainst perceptually indistinct contrasts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recent MIT alum Gillian Gallagher (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University) will speak on Monday at Harvard. Title: Contrast and non-local dependencies Time: Monday, February 28, 5:00pm Location: Boylston Hall, third floor, room 335 In this talk, I argue that long-distance phonological dependencies are grounded in perceptual asymmetries. The analytical claims are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}