{"id":8858,"date":"2016-10-17T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2016-10-16T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T02:32:13","slug":"phonology-circle-1017-benjamin-storme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/17\/phonology-circle-1017-benjamin-storme\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle - 10\/17 Benjamin Storme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bstorme.scripts.mit.edu\/site\/home.html\">Benjamin Storme<\/a> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title<\/strong>: The effect of schwa duration on pre-schwa lowering in French<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date\/Time<\/strong>: Monday, October 17, 5:00\u00966:30pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: 32-D831<\/br><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In some European French varieties, mid vowels are realized as open-mid before schwa and in closed syllables (e.g. h\u00f4telier [?t?lje], optique [?ptik]), and as close-mid otherwise (e.g. h\u00f4tel [ot?l]). Why do syllables followed by schwa pattern with closed syllables? It is often proposed that this is related to schwa being a short vowel (e.g. Durand 1976, Selkirk 1977, Anderson 1982). In this presentation, I report the results of a production experiment with 10 French speakers which support this hypothesis. The probability of pre-schwa lowering is shown to be inversely correlated to schwa duration: as the mean schwa duration of a speaker decreases, the probability that she will lower mid vowels before schwa increases. This relationship is modeled in a stochastic OT grammar with two pairs of conflicting constraints: *LongSchwa vs. *ShortV to regulate schwa duration, and *HighMidV\/{_C.C, _.CV[-long]} vs.*LowMidV to regulate mid vowel quality. Schwa duration and mid vowel quality interact because the constraint *HighMidV\/{_C.C, _.CV[-long]} bans high mid vowels before short vowels. I propose that this constraint has a perceptual motivation: a consonant preceded by a high vowel and followed by a short vowel or a consonant is particularly hard to perceive, and therefore phonologically marked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Benjamin Storme (MIT) Title: The effect of schwa duration on pre-schwa lowering in French Date\/Time: Monday, October 17, 5:00\u00966:30pm Location: 32-D831 &nbsp; In some European French varieties, mid vowels are realized as open-mid before schwa and in closed syllables (e.g. h\u00f4telier [?t?lje], optique [?ptik]), and as close-mid otherwise (e.g. h\u00f4tel [ot?l]). Why do syllables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8858"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}