{"id":4026,"date":"2012-04-09T05:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T09:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2012-04-08T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:26:07","slug":"phonology-circle-411-suyeon-yun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/04\/09\/phonology-circle-411-suyeon-yun\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 4\/11 - Suyeon Yun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Suyeon Yun<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: 11 April (Wed), 5 pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32D-831<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Epenthesis Positioning in Loan Adaptation: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIn loan adaptation, vowel epenthesis frequently occurs as a repair, when a cluster of a source<br clear='none'\/>\nlanguage is phonotactically illegal in the borrowing language. The most notable previous finding<br clear='none'\/>\nhas been that the position of epenthetic vowels differs depending on the type of cluster; sonority-<br clear='none'\/>\nrising clusters, especially stop-sonorant (TR), are more likely to be split by an epenthetic vowel<br clear='none'\/>\nthan sonority-falling clusters, especially sibilant-stop (ST), e.g., &#8216;plastic&#8217; > [bilastik] (internal<br clear='none'\/>\nepenthesis) vs. &#8216;study&#8217; > [istadi] (external epenthesis) (Egyptian Arabic; Broselow 1992). <\/p>\n<p>This<br clear='none'\/>\nstudy investigates epenthesis patterns in all possible types of clusters, both in word-initial and in<br clear='none'\/>\nword-final positions, from a cross-linguistic survey of loanwords. From the results, I propose<br clear='none'\/>\nnew generalizations about the preferred site of epenthesis: (i) if a cluster contains an obstruent, a<br clear='none'\/>\nvowel is epenthesized after the obstruent, e.g., \u0091camp\u0092 > [k<sup>h<\/sup>?mp<sup>h<\/sup>?] (Korean); (ii) if a cluster<br clear='none'\/>\ncontains a sonorant, a vowel is epenthesized before the sonorant, e.g., rubl (Russian) > [rub?l]<br clear='none'\/>\n(Kirgiz). <\/p>\n<p>By focusing only on initial clusters (Gouskova 2003, Steriade 2006) or on ST and TR<br clear='none'\/>\nclusters (Broselow 1992, Fleischhacker 2001, 2005), previous work has failed to identify the<br clear='none'\/>\ncurrent broad generalizations and cannot uniformly explain the cases where the epenthesis<br clear='none'\/>\npatterns are different word-initially and word-finally, e.g., mnemonicheskij (Russ.) ><br clear='none'\/>\n[ymnemonicheskij] &#8216;mnemonic&#8217; (Kirghiz) with external epenthesis vs. gimn (Russian) > [gimun]<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8216;hymn&#8217; (Kirghiz) with internal epenthesis. My hypothesis is that the typology results from<br clear='none'\/>\nperceptual similarity between a consonant and its epenthesized form. Specifically, an obstruent is<br clear='none'\/>\nperceptually more similar to an obstruent-vowel sequence than to a vowel-obstruent, and a<br clear='none'\/>\nsonorant is perceptually more similar to a vowel-sonorant sequence than to a sonorant-vowel. I<br clear='none'\/>\nwill show relevant phonetic bases and experimental results supporting this hypothesis. Based on<br clear='none'\/>\nthis, the typology will be analyzed based on the P-map hypothesis (Steriade 2001\/2009).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Suyeon Yun Date\/Time: 11 April (Wed), 5 pm Location: 32D-831 Title: Epenthesis Positioning in Loan Adaptation: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology In loan adaptation, vowel epenthesis frequently occurs as a repair, when a cluster of a source language is phonotactically illegal in the borrowing language. The most notable previous finding has been that the position of [&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-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","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=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}