{"id":9411,"date":"2017-02-21T06:03:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2017-02-21T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:10:32","slug":"rachel-walker-at-mit-222-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/02\/21\/rachel-walker-at-mit-222-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Walker at MIT (2\/22-2\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~rwalker\/Walker\/Home.html\">Rachel Walker<\/a> will be here for an extended visit from 2\/22-2\/24. In addition to her colloquium on Friday, she will also be teaching a mini-course on Wednesday and Thursday. Details are below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Rachel Walker<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title<\/strong>: Sub-segmental Representation<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time\/Location<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday 2\/22: 1-2:30pm in 36-112<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 2\/23: 4-5:30pm in 36-155<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this course, we will examine the representation of sub-segmental elements in light of patterns involving the neutralization of vowel quantity contrasts in the context of coda consonants. A case study of patterns of vocalic neutralization in General American English, supported by a real-time MRI study of speech articulation, will motivate a phonological representation of sub-segments as gestures (Browman &amp; Goldstein 1986 et seq.). Key advantages that gestures offer are the representation of temporal coordination among sub-segments and encoding of goal articulatory states that may be blended under conditions of overlap. A phonological approach will be developed that governs sub-segmental temporal relations, formalized in terms of optimality theoretic constraints, building on proposals of Davidson (2003) and Smith (2016). Cross-linguistic predictions for patterns of vowel quantity neutralization in other languages and dialects will be considered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Walker will be here for an extended visit from 2\/22-2\/24. In addition to her colloquium on Friday, she will also be teaching a mini-course on Wednesday and Thursday. Details are below. Speaker: Rachel Walker Title: Sub-segmental Representation Time\/Location: Wednesday 2\/22: 1-2:30pm in 36-112 Thursday 2\/23: 4-5:30pm in 36-155 Description: In this course, we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9471,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}