{"id":86,"date":"2008-04-07T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2008\/04\/07\/phonology-circle-47-peter-graff\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T22:16:26","slug":"phonology-circle-47-peter-graff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/04\/07\/phonology-circle-47-peter-graff\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology circle 4\/7:  Peter Graff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s installment of Phonology Circle features a talk by Peter Graff<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: A Metric for Systemic Dispersion \u0096 Evidence from Artificial Grammar<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Mon Apr 7 5pm, 32-D831<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this talk I present the results of a 4-week-long artificial language study which was set up to investigate the deeper motivations of sound change. In the experiment 18 native speakers of English were asked to learn an Artificial language with an obstruent system exhibiting a 3-way VOT contrast {ph, p, b, th, t, d, kh, k, g}. Subjects were recorded weekly over a period of 3 weeks. After the third week, subjects were assigned to three groups, which were each taught a different \u0093Dialect\u0094 of the artificial language; in the \u0093Northern Dialect\u0094 voiced stops spirantized, in the \u0093Southern Dialect\u0094 voiced stops nasalized, the third dialect acted as a control. After a week of training, subjects were recorded speaking their respective Dialects. Based measurements of closure duration and VOT of voiceless aspirated and voiceless unaspirated stops before and after treatment, I conclude that: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Subjects independently created a new contrast for closure duration to alleviate the VOT spectrum.<\/li>\n<li>Subjects eliminated the new contrast when their VOT spectrum was alleviated by nasalization of voiced stops.<\/li>\n<li>Subjects adapted the new contrast when their VOT spectrum was partially alleviated by spirantization of voiced stops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will provide an analysis of the different types of systemic adaptation utilizing conjoined MINDIST constraints in the spirit of Flemming (1995) and conclude that the complex computation of contrast warrants the postulation of a system-wide Dispersion requirement, which I will formalize as a Sysdist constraint. This approach is in line with more recent proposals of weighted cumulative markedness metrics (e.g. Coon and Gallagher, 2007).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s installment of Phonology Circle features a talk by Peter Graff Title: A Metric for Systemic Dispersion \u0096 Evidence from Artificial Grammar Time: Mon Apr 7 5pm, 32-D831 In this talk I present the results of a 4-week-long artificial language study which was set up to investigate the deeper motivations of sound change. In [&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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}