Betsy Pillion, Sarah Kopper & Lenore Grenoble @ LVC on Friday, February 12th

Friday, February 12th @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 015 “Is ‘huh’ really a universal word? Clicks, kisses & whistles in Cameroon” Betsy Pillion, Sarah Kopper & Lenore Grenoble University of Chicago, MSU, University of Chicago Cameroon, a linguistically diverse country of more than 240 languages, is host to a set of cross- linguistic communicative signals that […]

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13 May: Joshua Katz (Princeton)

Monday, May 13th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 What are they?: Some Hidden Forms of the Copula in Old Irish It is uncontroversial that Proto-Indo-European *-nti# regularly becomes -t /d/ in Old Irish, as in berait ‧berat ‘(they) carry’ (< *bheronti).  Nevertheless, my principal claim in this talk is that just in the copula, and […]

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29 April: Amanda Miller (Ohio State)

Monday, April 29th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 What Can We Do with High Frame Rate Ultrasound: Investigating the Phonetic Basis of the Back Vowel Constraint in Mangetti Dune !Xung Previously, the main articulatory field method used to investigate place of articulation was static palatography/ linguography. This method is invasive, and contact patterns are smeared […]

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