Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

A note on Nuba Mountain verb extensions

Larry M. Hyman
2020

Based on the available literature and personal communications with specialists, this paper surveys the rich occurrence of verb extensions in the Nuba mountain languages which mark different grammatical functions such as causative, dative and locative applicatives, comparative, passive, antipassive, reciprocal/reflexive, and associative/instrumental, as well as ventive, itive, habitual, iterative and pluractional marking. Given the diversity of forms among the different groups in the area, a set of guidelines is considered to determine whether specific extensions can be reconstructed...

A sketch of Muniche segmental and prosodic phonology

Lev Michael
Stephanie Farmer
Gregory Finley
Christine Beier
Karina Sullón Acosta
2013

This paper presents a description of the segmental and prosodic phonology of Muniche, a critically endangered Peruvian Amazonian isolate. Using data from team-based fieldwork with a group of rememberers of Muniche, this paper describes the segmental inventory, syllable structure, and stress system of the language, plus a number of prosodically motivated epenthetic processes. A historical overview of the language and its contact with neighboring Kawapanan languages is also presented. Finally, the results of this study are compared with Gibson (1996), the sole previous study of Muniche...

Beguš speaks at USC

October 5, 2021

Gašper Beguš gave a colloquium talk at USC Linguistics on October 4 entitled "Deep Learning and Phonology: Comparing Behavioral and Neural Speech Data with Outputs of Deep Generative Models."

Berkeley linguists @ AMP 2021

September 29, 2021

The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2021), taking place online from October 1 to 3, will feature presentations by the following Berkeley linguists:

Francesco Burroni (Cornell University), Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach, and Sireemas Maspong (Cornell University): Unifying Initial Geminates and fortis stops via laryngeal specification. Three case studies from Pattani Malay, Salentino, and Dunan [abstract] Katherine Russell: Nasal harmony and interactions with lexical strata in Paraguayan Guaraní [abstract] Maksymilian Dąbkowski: Prosody drives Paraguayan Guaraní suffix order [abstract]

Congrats, all!

Kavitskaya and Wandl present at PLM

September 13, 2021

Darya Kavitskaya and Florian Wandl (University of Zurich) will present at the Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) on September 16 in the special session "Phonological diversity matters." The title of the talk is "A rare contrast in Slavic: The palatalization of rhotics." The conference program is available here.

Sande speaks at Epenthesis Workshop

September 14, 2021

Hannah Sande will be giving an invited talk at the Epenthesis Workshop at Stony Brook on Friday called "Epenthesis or deletion? CVCV~CCV alternations in Kru languages." Congrats, Hannah!

Phorum 2020

The Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum ("Phorum") is a weekly talk and discussion series featuring presentations on all aspects of phonology and phonetics.

We meet Friday 3-4pm on Zoom. Please email one of the organizers for the zoom link or to ask to be added to the mailing list (which will include relevant links).

Phorum is organized by Dakota Robinson and Anna Björklund. Our emails are respectively "dakota_robinson" and "aebjorklund" @berkeley.edu.

Spring 2021 - Upcoming Talks February 5 Maksymilian Dabkowski (UC Berkeley): Stress...

Bleaman publishes in American Speech

May 5, 2021

Congrats to Isaac Bleaman and Dan Duncan (Newcastle University) on the publication of their article "The Gettysburg Corpus: Testing the proposition that all tense /æ/s are created equal" in American Speech. Read it here!

Agostinho and Hyman publish in Probus

May 5, 2021

Congrats to Ana Lívia Agostinho and Larry Hyman on the publication of their article "Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?" in Probus! The article has just appeared online.

Melguy & Johnson in JASA

April 13, 2021

Congrats to Yevgeniy Melguy and Keith Johnson on the publication of their article in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America!

Melguy, Y.V and Johnson, K. "General adaptation to accented English: Speech intelligibility unaffected by perceived source of non-native accent," Acoust. Soc. Am. 149 (4), April 2021, 2602-2614. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004240.