Please join LVC this Friday, December 2 at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. It will be our last meeting of the quarter and our speaker is our own Jacob Phillips. Hope you can make it! “Retraction in Action: Examining phonological and prosodic effects on /s/-retraction in the laboratory” Jacob Phillips University of Chicago An ongoing […]
Continue reading →“Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of (Masculine) Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court” Daniel Chen Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse School of Economics Using data on all 1,901 U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments between 1999 and 2013, we document that voice-based snap judgments based solely on the introductory sentences of lawyers predict Justices votes. The connection […]
Continue reading →Friday, March 1st @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 015 Shepu or Mandarin? Attention and second order indexicality in a Chinese yoga studio Britta Ingebretson University of Chicago In this talk, I will examine how the phonetic qualities of language become mobilized in processes of second-order indexicality in a yoga studio in Huangshan, China. Shepu, a portmanteau […]
Continue reading →Friday, November 6th @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 301 Intrinsic and Contextual Cues to Tone Perception In Medʉmba (or: A How-To Guide for Doing Phonetics Experiments in the Field) Kathryn Franich University of Chicago In this talk, I discuss results of experimental work on tone perception in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. The […]
Continue reading →Monday, April 18th @ 3:00 PM, Pick 016 The Emergence from Tone of Vowel Register and Graded Nasalization in the Eastern Chatino of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca (based on joint work with John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) The Chatino languages (Otomanguean; Oaxaca, Mexico) generally retain the conservative Proto-Chatino vowel inventory: */a, e, i, o, u/, with […]
Continue reading →Monday, February 24th @ 3:00 PM, Kent 107 Investigating phonetic variation over time in the U.S. Supreme Court Phonetic research over the past two decades has shown that individual speakers vary their phonetic realizations of words, phonemes, and subphonemic features. What we have found is that speakers show remarkable stability over time, while a small […]
Continue reading →Monday, October 21st @ 3 PM, Harper 140 Variation in fingerspelling: time, pinky extension, and what it means to be active This talk will look at two sources of variation in fingerspelling of American Sign Language: overall timing, and one aspect of hand shape. Reported fingerspelling rates have considerable variation (a lower bound of ~125msec […]
Continue reading →Monday, October 7th @ 3 PM, Harper 140 Voice-specific lexicons: acoustic variation and semantic association Over the past twenty years, evidence has accumulated that listeners store phonetically- rich memories of spoken words (Goldinger 1996, Johnson 1997; Schacter & Church, 1992). These memorized episodes are linked to various speaker characteristics, including gender (Strand & Johnson 1996, […]
Continue reading →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 […]
Continue reading →Monday, February 11th @ 12:30 PM, Social Sciences 302 The authentication of Sierra Leonean refugees Competing ideologies of the acoustic characteristics of voice During the Sierra Leone civil war, 1991–2002, many European countries granted asylum to Sierra Leonean refugees. Those without documentation were given an opportunity to participate in a language analysis interview. There are […]
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