Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Laryngeal features and segmental length: Cases studies in Yánesha’, Barese, Maranese, and Italian

Allegra Robertson
2025

This dissertation examines the relationship between laryngeal features and the segment
in four languages, with a focus on phonetic traits, phonological representation, and the roles
of length, weight, and stress. The case studies present laryngeal phenomena from disparate
language contexts that are united in their subsegmental nature and typologically unexpected
occurrence: laryngealized vowels in Yánesha’ (Arawakan), pre-aspirated geminate stops in
Barese (Upper Southern Italo-Romance) and the local variety of Standard Italian (Cen-
tral Italo-Romance), and post-...

Phorum

The Berkeley Phonetics, Phonology and Psycholinguistics Forum ("Phorum") is a weekly talk and discussion series featuring presentations on all aspects of phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. We meet on Fridays from 4(:10)-5pm (unless specified otherwise below), in Dwinelle 1229 (Zoom link shared upon request). Phorum is organized by Kai Schenck and Lindsay Hatch. Our emails are respectively "kai_schenck" and "lindsaykhatch" @berkeley.edu.

Schedules from previous semesters can be found...

Phorum 2024

Spring 2024 January 19

No meeting.

Please check out the panel at 3:30pm (at Social Science Matrix, 8th floor Social Sciences Building) on Prof. Andrew Garrett's new book 'The...

Berkeley linguists at Exploring Boundaries workshop

March 5, 2025

Several Berkeley linguists will present at an upcoming workshop on Exploring Boundaries: Phonological domains in the languages of the world in Tromsø, Norway on March 13-14, 2025.

Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Katherine Russell will give a talk entitled "Wordhood at the heart of Paraguayan Guaraní morphology" Hannah Sande will give a talk entitled "Identifying domains in Lobi: Downstep, tone spreading, and harmony" Kai Joseph Schenck will present a poster on "Morphological domains in Yurok rhotic vowel harmony"

Melguy and Johnson publish in the Journal of Phonetics

March 3, 2025

Congratulations to Yevgeniy Melguy (PhD 2022) and Keith Johnson, whose article "What are you sinking about? Experience with unfamiliar accent produces both inhibition and facilitation during lexical processing" was published this week in the Journal of Phonetics.

Berkeley linguists at Variation in Cyclicity workshop

February 24, 2025

There will be two Berkeley talks at the upcoming workshop on Variation in Cyclicity at DGfS in Mainz, Germany, March 4-7:

Hannah Sande will give a plenary talk on "Discontinuous harmony in Guébie: Consequences for cyclic spell out." Maksymilian Dąbkowski will talk about "The spell-out of A'ingae functional phases and its phonological consequences."

Sande speaks in Leipzig

February 24, 2025

Hannah Sande is giving an invited talk entitled "Exploring prosodic domains and morpheme-specific tonology in Lobi (Gur)" at Universität Leipzig on Friday, February 28. Congrats, Hannah!

Russell publishes in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

February 12, 2025

Congratulations to Katie Russell on the publication of a chapter on "Tone" in the 3rd edition of the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. An Open Access version can be found here.

Robertson Molinaro publishes in Folia Linguistica

February 6, 2025

Congratulations to Allegra Robertson Molinaro on the publication of an article titled "Laryngealized vowels in Yánesha': A phonetic description and subsegmental analysis" in Folia Linguistica! An Open Access version of the article can be found here.

Dąbkowski presents at OCP22

January 30, 2025

Congratulations to Maksymilian Dąbkowski on his upcoming presentation, "The forms and meanings of A’ingae derived nouns," at the 22nd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP22) hosted at the University of Amsterdam on February 5-7.