{"id":8175,"date":"2016-03-28T05:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2016-03-28T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:51:21","slug":"phonology-circle-328-kevin-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/03\/28\/phonology-circle-328-kevin-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 3\/28 - Kevin Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~kevinryan\/\">Kevin Ryan<\/a><\/strong> (Harvard)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle:  Strictness functions in meter<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time:  Monday, March 28, 5:00-6:30pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation:  32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meters can vary in strictness along several dimensions, four of which I&#8217;ll illustrate using the Finnish Kalevala, though the principles are arguably universal.<\/br><\/p>\n<p>1. Strictness increases across constituents such as the line (couplet, etc.), such that exceptions are most frequent at the beginning and taper off towards the end.<\/br><\/p>\n<p>2. Although the meter is conventionally described as regulating only stressed syllables, I show that degree of regulation correlates with degree of stress, such that violations of the meter are more tolerated for more weakly stressed syllables, but not fully ignored.<\/br><\/p>\n<p>3. Although conventionally described as binary, the meter evidently treats weight as gradient, such that the more the duration of a syllable deviates from its metrical target, the more the mapping is penalized.<\/br><\/p>\n<p>4. Word boundaries are increasingly avoided towards the end of the line (beyond prose baselines). The conventionally recognized prohibition on line-final monosyllables is only the most extreme manifestation of this tendency.<\/br><\/p>\n<p>In all four cases, strictness of mapping (i.e. how much a violation of the meter is &#8220;felt&#8221;) is modulated by some scale such as position in the line, stress level, or duration. I discuss how such modulations of strictness can be modeled in a maxent or logistic constraint framework and some resulting typological predictions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kevin Ryan (Harvard) Title: Strictness functions in meter Date\/Time: Monday, March 28, 5:00-6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Meters can vary in strictness along several dimensions, four of which I&#8217;ll illustrate using the Finnish Kalevala, though the principles are arguably universal. 1. Strictness increases across constituents such as the line (couplet, etc.), such that exceptions are most [&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-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","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=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}