Faculty member Emily Clem just published a new paper in Linguistic Inquiry titled “Disharmony and the Final-Over-Final Condition in Amahuaca.” DOI
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Anne Therese Frederiksen and Rachel Mayberry have a new paper
Alumna Anne Therese Frederiksen (Ph.D. 2019) and faculty member Rachel Mayberry just published a new paper:
Frederiksen, A. T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2021). Implicit causality biases and thematic roles in ASL. Journal of Behavioral and Research Methods. DOI
Rachel Mayberry gives an invited talk at John Hopkins
Faculty member Rachel Mayberry gave an invited talk titled “Maturational limits on language development and neurolinguistic processing: Evidence for a closing of the critical period for language” to the Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, on April 8, 2021.
Rachel Mayberry gives an invited talk at 45th Penn Linguistics Conference
Faculty member Rachel Mayberry gave an invited talk at the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference on March 19, 2021. Her talk was titled: “The role of linguistic experience in the mergence of the brain language system.”
Tory Sampson at CLS 57
Graduate student Tory Sampson will present at the 57th meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, hosted by the University of Chicago. Her talk will focus on the diachronic change and grammaticalization of the copula and copular expressions in 150 years of American Sign Language history.
Michael Obiri-Yeboah and Sharon Rose have new paper in NLLT
Graduate student Michael Obiri-Yeboah and faculty member Sharon Rose have a new paper out in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory:
Obiri-Yeboah, Michael & Sharon Rose. 2021. Vowel harmony and phonological phrasing in Gua
Abstract
In Gua, an underdocumented Tano Guang language spoken in Ghana, regressive ATR vowel harmony applies within words and non-iteratively across word boundaries. Although vowel harmony is known to cross word boundaries in some languages, little is known about the domains and extent of such harmony. We show that ATR harmony in Gua operates within phonological phrases that preferentially consist of two or three words, with binary phrases at the left edge and ternary phrases at the right edge of the utterance. Syntactic structure can exert an influence, but only with respect to subjects. In addition, we demonstrate that unary phrases are permitted, but not at the edge of the utterance. Gua is the first reported vowel harmony case that shows the same kind of phonological phrasing sensitivity as other prosodic phenomena, such as tone and duration.
SDLP Issue 9 has been published
Issue 9 of San Diego Linguistics Papers, our open-access online working papers series, has just been published and available here. It was edited by Yuan Chai, Neşe Demir, Duk-Ho Jung, and Nina Hagen Kaldhol, and includes two papers:
- Yuan Chai, “Predicting discrimination accuracy by assimilation pattern, overlap score, and acoustic properties”
- Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, Adam G. McCollum, “On the proper treatment of weak determinism: Subsequentiality and simultaneous application in phonological maps”
Gabriela Caballero and Michelle Yuan at WCCFL 39
Faculty members Gabriela Caballero and Michelle Yuan and co-author Claudia Juárez Chávez presented a virtual talk at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), hosted by the University of Arizona. Their talk, part of the Formal Linguistics for Language Reclamation special session, was entitled, “The representation of tone in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: Phonological and orthographic implications.”
Michelle Yuan’s virtual colloquia at UC Berkeley and Harvard
Faculty member Michelle Yuan just gave two virtual colloquium talks on her ongoing research on the morphosyntactic properties of noun incorporation in Inuktitut:
- “Movement in Inuktitut incorporation” (UC Berkeley; Monday, March 15, 2021)
- “Noun incorporation and movement chains in Inuktitut” (Harvard Linguistics Circle; Friday, March 26, 2021)
Graduate students and faculty at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Several departmental members are presenting talks at the online Annual Conference on African Linguistics 51-52 on April 8-10 at the University of Florida. Graduate students Neşe Demir, Yaqian Huang and José Armando Fernández Guerrero are presenting research on Rere (Koalib) stemming from the 2019 field methods classes with Taitas Kanda. Graduate student Anthony Struthers-Young is presenting on Northern Toussian based on his fieldwork in Burkina Faso, and graduate student Nina Hagen Kaldhol and faculty member Sharon Rose are presenting new work on Tira with Himidan Hassen.