Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

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.

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...

Sande publishes on deletion and epenthesis in Kru languages

January 20, 2025

Congratulations to Hannah Sande, who published a chapter, "Insertion or deletion? CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages," in a new volume Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces with Language Science Press, available here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/469.

Phorum 2023

Spring 2023 January 20

Sarang Jeong (Stanford): The relation between perception and production in an ongoing sound change: A pilot experiment on the younger group's perception of Korean three-way stop contrast

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether individual language users’ perception is parallel to their production when their language community is going through a sound change. When a sound change is in progress, do speakers with the new and old variants...

Phorum 2020

Spring 2020 March 2

Matthew Leonard (UCSF): Dynamic Brain Networks for the Perception and Organization of Speech

March 9

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania): Symbols and Signals in Language Sound Structure

May 11

Raksit Lau (UC Berkeley): A Pathway to Tonogenesis: Shifting Language Dynamics in Kuy and the Perception-Production Link

Fall 2020 September 4

Round robin

Students and faculty...

Phorum 2024

Spring 2024 January 19

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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...

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Phorum 2022

Spring 2022 January 21

Kie Zuraw and Paolo Roca (UCLA): Rhythms in OPM (Original Pinoy Music)

We use music and lyrics of OPM, Original Pilipino Music, to investigate a controversy about whether it is stress or vowel length that is active in Filipino, and whether words divide mainly into penult-stressed vs. ultima-stressed, or into penult-stressed vs. unstressed. We found in a small corpus of songs that "stressed" syllables, as compared to "...

Phorum 2021

Spring 2021 February 5 Maksymilian Dabkowski (UC Berkeley): Stress in Paraguayan Guaraní

I describe and analyze stress assignment in Paraguayan Guaraní (Tupian, ISO 639-3: gug). In PG, final stress predominates at the level of prosodic words and phonological phrases alike. However, non-final stress is also attested in exceptional roots, morphologically complex words, and multi-word phonological phrases. I propose that there is one basic mechanism for stress assignment in PG: In the course of prosodification, stress targets the right edge of a prosodic constituent. This captures PG's...

The morphosyntax of verbal agreement in Uab Meto

Tyler Lemon
2024

This dissertation describes and analyzes the morphology and syntax of verbal agreement in Uab Meto, an Austronesian language of Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The introduction provides background on Uab Meto, its speakers, and previous work on the language. Then the dissertation presents analyses of several aspects of Uab Meto grammar. The second chapter analyzes the syntactic structure of Uab Meto verbs and the morphology and allomorphy of elements within it, except agreement. The third chapter analyzes the allomorphy displayed by the language’s verbal agreement prefixes. The fourth chapter...