{"id":6412,"date":"2014-09-22T05:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2014-09-21T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:50:41","slug":"phonology-circle-0922-benjamin-storme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/09\/22\/phonology-circle-0922-benjamin-storme\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 09\/22 - Benjamin Storme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/mstorme.com\/cv.php\">Benjamin Storme<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Closed syllable vowel laxing and the perceptibility of coda consonant place contrasts<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Monday, September 22, 5-6:30 pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nClosed syllable vowel laxing describes a common pattern of allophonic distribution where tense vowels are laxed in closed syllables (e.g., French vous votez \/vote\/ &#8220;you vote&#8221; vs il vote \/v?t\/ &#8220;he votes&#8221;). I propose that laxing vowels (e.g., o->?)  in closed syllables is a strategy selected by speakers to enhance the perceptibility of coda consonant place contrasts. I present results of a perception experiment that provide preliminary support for this hypothesis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Benjamin Storme (MIT) Title: Closed syllable vowel laxing and the perceptibility of coda consonant place contrasts Date\/Time: Monday, September 22, 5-6:30 pm Location: 32-D461 Closed syllable vowel laxing describes a common pattern of allophonic distribution where tense vowels are laxed in closed syllables (e.g., French vous votez \/vote\/ &#8220;you vote&#8221; vs il vote \/v?t\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}