{"id":3044,"date":"2011-09-26T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2011-09-25T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T22:22:57","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-930-kie-zuraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/09\/26\/linguistics-colloquium-930-kie-zuraw\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 9\/30 - Kie Zuraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ucla.edu\/people\/zuraw\/\">Kie Zuraw<\/a> (UCLA)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Korean sai-siot: phonological and non-phonological factors<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, 9\/30<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 3:30 PM<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some Korean compounds are pronounced as though \/s\/ were inserted,<br clear='none'\/>\nfollowed by various automatic rules of the language. A following lenis<br clear='none'\/>\nobstruent becomes tensified (\/twi+s+pa?\/ ? [twip\u0092a?] \u0091back room\u0092), and<br clear='none'\/>\na following nasal becomes lengthened (\/p?+s+nol?\/ ? [p?nno??]<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091sailors\u0092 song\u0092). This phenomenon is known as sai-siot \u0091middle s\u0092.<br clear='none'\/>\nMuch literature has debated the nature of the sai-siot morpheme, rule,<br clear='none'\/>\nor constraint (\/s\/-insertion, mora insertion, etc.), but this talk<br clear='none'\/>\nfocuses on sai-siot\u0092s distribution.<\/p>\n<p>This talk uses corpus data to investigate phonological and other<br clear='none'\/>\npredictors of sai-siot that have been noted in previous literature, as<br clear='none'\/>\nwell as some new ones. These include the branching structure of<br clear='none'\/>\ncompounds, their etymology (Sino-Korean vs. native Korean), frequency<br clear='none'\/>\nof the whole compound and its members, syllable counts of compound<br clear='none'\/>\nmembers, sonority of the segments surrounding the compound boundary,<br clear='none'\/>\nand presence of an underlying tense consonant.<\/p>\n<p>A recurring finding is that most of these factors interact<br clear='none'\/>\nquantitatively rather than in a strict hierarchy. For example, it\u0092s<br clear='none'\/>\nnot the case that compounds can be divided, based on their branching<br clear='none'\/>\nstructure, into those that can\u0092t undergo sai-siot and those that may,<br clear='none'\/>\ndepending on other factors. Rather, branching structure and other<br clear='none'\/>\nfactors all contribute to the probability that a compound will undergo<br clear='none'\/>\nsai-siot. This suggests that phonological and certain non-phonological<br clear='none'\/>\nfactors can interact directly, rather than belonging to completely<br clear='none'\/>\nseparate modules.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kie Zuraw (UCLA) Title: Korean sai-siot: phonological and non-phonological factors Date: Friday, 9\/30 Time: 3:30 PM Location: 32-141 Some Korean compounds are pronounced as though \/s\/ were inserted, followed by various automatic rules of the language. A following lenis obstruent becomes tensified (\/twi+s+pa?\/ ? [twip\u0092a?] \u0091back room\u0092), and a following nasal becomes lengthened (\/p?+s+nol?\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}