{"id":4162,"date":"2012-05-07T05:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2012-05-06T22:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T02:36:42","slug":"phonology-circle-59-gretchen-kern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/05\/07\/phonology-circle-59-gretchen-kern\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 5\/9 - Gretchen Kern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Gretchen Kern<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: 5\/9 (Wednesday) 5 pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Perceptual Similarity in Sonority Contours: Evidence from Early Irish<br clear='none'\/>\nRhyming Patterns<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a practice talk for the 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference in<br clear='none'\/>\nJune. <\/p>\n<p>This paper aims to explain the basis of Early Irish rhyme and lend<br clear='none'\/>\nsupport to the concept of phonological similarity in sonority contours.<br clear='none'\/>\nPrevious evidence for sonority contour-based similarity has come from<br clear='none'\/>\npatterns of epenthesis in consonant clusters (Flemming, 2008; Steriade,<br clear='none'\/>\n2006) arguing that the perceptual distance between C1C2 and C1VC2 is<br clear='none'\/>\nsmaller when there is a steep rise in sonority between C1 and C2 because<br clear='none'\/>\nthat rise is more similar to the one between C1 and an epenthetic vowel.<br clear='none'\/>\nAdapting this, I argue that in Early (Old & Middle) Irish rhyme, the<br clear='none'\/>\nrelevant dimension of similarity was the sonority profile: the<br clear='none'\/>\ndifference in sonority between the most and least sonorous points. This<br clear='none'\/>\ncan be used to explain some puzzling facts about Early Irish rhyme,<br clear='none'\/>\nnamely the division of rhymeable consonants into classes, the behavior<br clear='none'\/>\nof consonant clusters, and the behavior of rhymes of two syllables. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Gretchen Kern Date\/Time: 5\/9 (Wednesday) 5 pm Location: 32-D831 Title: Perceptual Similarity in Sonority Contours: Evidence from Early Irish Rhyming Patterns Abstract: This is a practice talk for the 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference in June. This paper aims to explain the basis of Early Irish rhyme and lend support to the concept of phonological [&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-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}