{"id":2573,"date":"2011-04-11T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T09:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:08:53","slug":"kisseberth-harvard-wed-413-5-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/04\/11\/kisseberth-harvard-wed-413-5-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisseberth @ Harvard - Wed 4\/13 5-7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker: Charles W. Kisseberth (Emeritus, University of Illinois and Tel Aviv University) <BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Prosody and Phonological Phrasing in Chimwiini<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Wed 4\/13, 5-7pm, Location TBA<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nIn this paper we explore the fundamentals of the prosody<br clear='none'\/>\nand phrasing of sentences in Chimwiini, a Bantu language closely<br clear='none'\/>\nrelated to Swahili. We look first at the pattern of vowel length<br clear='none'\/>\nalternations at the word level, a system that Selkirk (1986) analyzed<br clear='none'\/>\nin terms of an abstract system of stress that features the Latin<br clear='none'\/>\nStress Rule plus a principle that shortens unstressed vowels. Then we<br clear='none'\/>\nlook at the system of accent which, in the default case assigns penult<br clear='none'\/>\naccent (H tone), but final accent in certain mostly morphosyntactic<br clear='none'\/>\nenvironements.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>              It turns out that both the stress system and the accent<br clear='none'\/>\nare phrasal in nature and work in exactly the same phrasal units.<br clear='none'\/>\nAfter demonstrating this point, we summarize the main principles that<br clear='none'\/>\ndefine the phrasing of a Chimwiini sentence: Align-XP R (align the<br clear='none'\/>\nright edge of a lexical maximal projection with the right edge of a<br clear='none'\/>\nphonological phrase) and Align-Foc R (align the right edge of a<br clear='none'\/>\nfocused element with the right edge of a phonological phrase). We<br clear='none'\/>\ndiscusss briefly some phenomena that may be subcases of Align-Foc R or<br clear='none'\/>\nrelated to it in terms of the pattern of behavior.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>              The final portion of the paper explores how final accent<br clear='none'\/>\nis realized in Chimwiini sentences and suggests that the essential<br clear='none'\/>\nprinciple is this: final accent is located on the final syllable of<br clear='none'\/>\nany phonological phrase that contains the trigger of final accent. To<br clear='none'\/>\nmake this principle succeed, it turns out that we need a third<br clear='none'\/>\nphrasing principle: Wrap-XP (all the elements in an XP must appear<br clear='none'\/>\ninside a single phonological phrase) plus recursive phrasing.<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Charles W. Kisseberth (Emeritus, University of Illinois and Tel Aviv University) Title: Prosody and Phonological Phrasing in Chimwiini Time: Wed 4\/13, 5-7pm, Location TBA In this paper we explore the fundamentals of the prosody and phrasing of sentences in Chimwiini, a Bantu language closely related to Swahili. We look first at the pattern of [&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-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","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=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}