{"id":5223,"date":"2013-05-20T05:04:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2013-05-19T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T23:16:00","slug":"phonology-circle-520-michelle-fullwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/05\/20\/phonology-circle-520-michelle-fullwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 5\/20 - Michelle Fullwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Michelle Fullwood<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The perceptual dimensions of sonority-driven epenthesis<br clear='none'\/>\nTime\/Date: Monday, May 20, 2pm <b>(Note special time)<\/b><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vowel epenthesis often appears to preferentially target consonant clusters with rising sonority. One explanation for this tendency is perceptual faithfulness (Fleischhacker 2002, Steriade 2006): rising sonority clusters are more susceptible to epenthesis because the perceptual distance between the underlying \/C1 C2\/ sequence and its correspondent output sequence [C1 V C2] is small, thus incurring a smaller faithfulness cost.<\/p>\n<p>This raises the question of how to compute the perceptual distance between two sonority contours. I propose that the appropriate metric is Sonority Angle, defined to be the angle formed by C1-C2 and C1-V. Given a standard sonority scale mapping classes of consonants to numerical sonority, this metric predicts a certain hierarchy of susceptibility to epenthesis for consonant clusters.<\/p>\n<p>I present two case studies of sonority-driven epenthesis in Chaha (Ethiopia; Southern Semitic) and Irish (Celtic) that demonstrate the correctness of certain rankings of clusters in the hierarchy, in contrast with alternative proposals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Michelle Fullwood Title: The perceptual dimensions of sonority-driven epenthesis Time\/Date: Monday, May 20, 2pm (Note special time) Location: 32-D831 Vowel epenthesis often appears to preferentially target consonant clusters with rising sonority. One explanation for this tendency is perceptual faithfulness (Fleischhacker 2002, Steriade 2006): rising sonority clusters are more susceptible to epenthesis because the perceptual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}