There will be a meeting of the Language Variation and Change workshop this Friday, April 6 at 3:30 pm in Cobb 119. Please note the unusual location. Our speaker will be Alan Yu. Please see below for details about his talk. “Investigating South Asian Cantonese in Hong Kong from a phonological perspective“ Alan Yu (University […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, February 16th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be E-Ching Ng, who is doing her postdoc in the Linguistics Department. Please see below for details about her talk. “Word-final vowel epenthesis: An L2 sound change?” E-Ching Ng […]
Continue reading →There will be a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, February 2nd at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Britta Ingebretson. See below for details. We hope you can make it! “Rhotic coda usage as stance-taking in Southern China” Britta Ingebretson (UChicago) Mandarin Chinese has two standard variations, […]
Continue reading →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 →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 […]
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 10th @ 4:30 PM, Harper 150 Language variation and change in two Palestinian Arabic varieties: Gaza and Jaffa While research in Arabic sociolinguistics has been on the rise in recent years, a number of regions are still under-investigated. Most varieties of Palestinian Arabic, though described by dialectologists in the traditional sense over the […]
Continue reading →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 […]
Continue reading →Monday, May 6th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 An Overview of Nguni Verbal Reduplication with Special Reference to Ndebele Previous works on verbal reduplication in Nguni (isiNdebele, siSwati, isiXhosa and isiZulu) such as Downing (1996, 1997a) and Sibanda (2004) have not paid much attention to possible verbal morphology inaccuracies but have been concerned mainly with […]
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