Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology

Eugene Buckley
1992

Advisor: Larry Hyman

Articulation and Altered Auditory Feedback

Sarah G. Bakst
2017

Prosodic Prominence in Karuk

Clare S. Sandy
2017

Phorum 2006

SEPTEMBER 11

Discussion of John J. McCarthy (2006), "Candidates and Derivations in Optimality Theory", led by Marc Ettlinger.

SEPTEMBER 18

Discussion of "Phase Transitions in a Repetitive Speech Task as Gestural Recomposition" by Kenneth de Jong, Byung-jin Lim & Kyoko Nagao (2006) and "Gestural overlap and...

Phorum 2007

SCHEDULE OF TALKS: FALL 2007

SEPTEMBER 10 - SAM TILSEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: A PERSEVERATORY COARTICULATION STUDY USING A PHONOLOGICAL PHONEMIC-RESPONSE PRIMING TASK

Vowel-to-vowel perseveratory coarticulation has been observed in a number of languages, and can occur between unreduced vowels across a medial schwa (Magen 1997). The two-syllable potential range of this phenomenon suggests that V-to-V perseveratory coarticulation is caused in part by cognitive mechanisms, rather than by purely mechanical or inertial forces (c.f. Recasens 1984), but...

Phorum 2008

SCHEDULE OF TALKS: Fall 2008

SEPTEMBER 8 - SAM TILSEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: EVIDENCE FOR COVARIABILITY OF RHYTHMIC AND INTERGESTURAL TIMING

It is well-known that temporal patterns in speech occur on multiple timescales, but we understand less clearly how these patterns on different timescales interact with each other. Speech gestures normally occur on a relatively fast timescale. Previous work has shown that there exists a gestural c-center effect in complex syllable onsets (e.g. [spa]), whereby initiation of tongue blade and lip movements...

Phorum 2009

SCHEDULE OF TALKS: Fall 2009

AUGUST 31 - TAFFETA ELLIOTT, THEUNISSEN LABORATORY, HELEN WILLS NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE, UC BERKELEY: SPECTROTEMPORAL MODULATIONS ESSENTIAL FOR SPEECH COMPREHENSION AND SPEAKER GENDER IDENTIFICATION

The acoustic signal of speech is rich in temporal and frequency patterns. These power fluctuations in time and frequency are called modulations. Spoken words remain intelligible after drastic degradations in either time or frequency. To fully understand the perception of speech, and to be able to reduce the speech signal to essential...

Phorum 2010

SCHEDULE OF TALKS: Fall 2010

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

SEPTEMBER 13 - KEITH JOHNSON, REIKO KATAOKA, SHIRA KATSEFF, RONALD SPROUSE, & MELINDA WOODLEY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Tour of the Phonology Lab

What is a phonology lab? What goes on there? Can I use the facilities of the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab?

The first meeting of Phorum this semester (Sept. 13) is an introduction to the Phonology lab. The plan is to have an overview presentation, and then some demos of how people get their work done in the lab.

How to make an audio...

Phorum 2011

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2011

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

SEPTEMBER 12 - LARRY HYMAN
UC BERKELEY

Tonal Density and Tonal Typology

In previous work I have documented several ways in which tone is "different" from segmental and metrical phonology. I believe that a reasonable case can be made that tone offers both greater complexity and greater diversity than other aspects of phonology. Concerning such diversity, a relatively small number of languages distinguish up to five contrasting tone heights and multiple contours on each syllable. On the other hand...

Phorum 2012

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2012

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

SEPTEMBER 10 - WILL CHANG
UC BERKELEY

Linguistic mirages and lexical borrowing between Tongan and Samoan

Despite more than a thousand years of cultural exchange between Tonga and Samoa before European contact, very few loanwords have been identified as having diffused between them, even though there is a large vocabulary peculiar to these two Polynesian languages. The difficulty lies in the fact that when Tongan and Samoan show related forms, it is almost always possible to reconstruct a Proto...