{"id":9228,"date":"2017-02-06T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2017-02-06T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:39:24","slug":"ling-lunch-29-stuart-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/02\/06\/ling-lunch-29-stuart-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 2\/9 &#8212; Stuart Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~lingdept\/faculty\/davis\/\">Stuart Davis<\/a> (Indiana University)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Title:<\/strong> On Explaining English Schwa Syncope<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Thursday, February 9<strong>, <\/strong>12:30pm-1:50pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>English schwa syncope (Zwicky 1972, Hooper 1978, Kenstowicz 1994, Polgardi 2015) deletes schwa between word-internal consonants.\u00a0 The structural observation is that schwa syncope is likely to occur if the resulting consonant cluster has rising sonority (1) but not if the resulting cluster has falling (or level) sonority (2) (where the target schwa is underlined).<\/p>\n<p>(1) <em>choc<u>o<\/u>late op<u>e<\/u>ra<\/em> <em>fam<u>i<\/u>ly<\/em> <em>happ<u>e<\/u>ning jav<u>e<\/u>lin Deb<u>o<\/u>rah <\/em><\/p>\n<p>(2) <em>pel<u>i<\/u>can<\/em> <em>fel<u>o<\/u>ny mon<u>i<\/u>tor can<u>o<\/u>py pick<u>e<\/u>ting mel<u>o<\/u>dy <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hooper (1978) emphasizes the structural conditions noting that even high frequency words will disfavor schwa syncope if the structural conditions are not right. Thus, <em>mel\u00ad<u>o<\/u>dy<\/em> strongly disfavors schwa syncope since the resulting cluster after syncope has falling sonority.<\/p>\n<p>Typologically, the schwa syncope pattern is odd since it favors rising sonority clusters over falling ones in syllable contact.\u00a0 This can be contrasted with English hypocoristic formation which favors intervocalic falling sonority clusters over rising ones as can be seen in the comparison of <em>Barbara-Barby<\/em> with <em>Gabriella-Gabby<\/em> (not <em>Gabry<\/em>).\u00a0 Further, the exact location of the syllable boundary of the resulting schwa-deleted forms in (1) is not clear; Hooper (1978) maintains that the resulting cluster is always ambisyllabic.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, if schwa syncope were to apply in (2) the resulting cluster would have a clear syllable boundary. For example, schwa syncope applied to <em>pelican <\/em>(i.e. <em>pel.can<\/em>) results in a clear syllable break between the two consonants of the resulting cluster.\u00a0 Under a new conception of English schwa syncope developed in this talk, schwa syncope is viewed as a problem of foot structure reduction:\u00a0 Schwa syncope reduces a dactylic foot into a preferred trochaic one.\u00a0 We will maintain that a preferred trochee in English has ambiguous syllabification within the foot and that this functionally helps to enhance the foot-initial boundary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Stuart Davis (Indiana University) Title: On Explaining English Schwa Syncope Time: Thursday, February 9, 12:30pm-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: English schwa syncope (Zwicky 1972, Hooper 1978, Kenstowicz 1994, Polgardi 2015) deletes schwa between word-internal consonants.\u00a0 The structural observation is that schwa syncope is likely to occur if the resulting consonant cluster has rising sonority (1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}