{"id":521,"date":"2009-02-16T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:51:16","slug":"phonology-circle-tues-217-tara-mcallister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/02\/16\/phonology-circle-tues-217-tara-mcallister\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle - Tues 2\/17 - Tara McAllister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Please note special day; Tuesday 2\/17 follows a Monday schedule<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Tara McAllister<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Articulatory and Perceptual Factors in a Child-Specific Error Process<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Tues 2\/17, 5pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/map-jpg?mapterms=32-D831\">32-D831<\/a><\/P><\/p>\n<p>> Several commonly observed processes in child speech lack counterparts in adult phonologies. Particularly problematic are child processes of neutralization in prosodically strong positions, which contravene our<br clear='none'\/>\nunderstanding of positional neutralization as a phonetically motivated process governed by the relative<br clear='none'\/>\nstrength of perceptual cues. Previous analyses have implicated both child-specific patterns of perception<br clear='none'\/>\n(Dinnsen & Farris-Trimble, 2008) and limitations of the immature articulatory apparatus (Inkelas & Rose,<br clear='none'\/>\n2008) as the source of this reversal of the adult pattern. I will evaluate the evidence for child-specific<br clear='none'\/>\nperceptual and articulatory factors in an experimental investigation of one child&#8217;s pattern of velar<br clear='none'\/>\nfronting in strong position. It will be shown that this child exhibited an adult-like perceptual advantage<br clear='none'\/>\nfor contrasts in word-initial position. This suggests that articulatory rather than perceptual factors are<br clear='none'\/>\nresponsible for his pattern of neutralization in strong position. Acoustic data from neutralized \/d\/ and<br clear='none'\/>\n\/g\/ tokens will also be presented to extend our understanding of articulatory factors that contribute to<br clear='none'\/>\nthe process of velar fronting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note special day; Tuesday 2\/17 follows a Monday schedule Speaker: Tara McAllister Title: Articulatory and Perceptual Factors in a Child-Specific Error Process Time: Tues 2\/17, 5pm Location: 32-D831 > Several commonly observed processes in child speech lack counterparts in adult phonologies. Particularly problematic are child processes of neutralization in prosodically strong positions, which contravene [&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-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}