LING521 - Spring 2017
1. Lexicon/Phonology/Phonetics
The first section of the course will deal with the problem of "allophonic variation" in segmental phonology and phonetics.
We will undertake a couple of joint exercises in classification and measurement, both to explore concepts and issues, and to learn techniques. A brief overview of the theoretical issues can be found in
Mark Liberman, "Towards Progress in Theories of Language Sound Structure", in Shaping Phonology (Festschrift for John Goldsmith, forthcoming)
Our
first class exercise will look at realizations of the final
consonant cluster in the word "don't" in versions of the calibration
sentence "Don't ask me to carry an oily rag like that" in the TIMIT
corpus, representing one sub-case of the phenomenon misleadingly
called "t/d deletion".
We'll
also look at allophonic variation in
syllable-final /s/ in Spanish.
Some
relevant background reading:
David
Pisoni, "Variability
of vowel formant frequencies and the quantal theory of speech: A
first report." Phonetica 37,
no. 5-6 (1980): 285-305
Mark
Liberman and Janet Pierrehumbert. "Intonational
invariance under changes in pitch range and length". In Language
sound structure, ed. by Mark Aronoff and Richard Oerhle,
(1984): 157-233.
Jacqueline Vaissière, " Prediction of velum movement from phonological specifications." Phonetica 45, no. 2-4 (1988): 122-139.
Kenneth Stevens, "On the quantal nature of speech." Journal of phonetics 17, no. 1 (1989): 3-45.
Joseph Perkell, Melanie Matthies, Harlan Lane, Frank Guenther, Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico, Jane Wozniak, and Peter Guiod. "Speech motor control: Acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models." Speech communication 22, no. 2-3 (1997): 227-250.
Kenneth Stevens and Samuel Jay Keyser. "Quantal theory, enhancement and overlap." Journal of Phonetics 38, no. 1 (2010): 10-19.Jiahong Yuan and Mark Liberman. "Automatic measurement and comparison of vowel nasalization across languages." ICPHS, 2011.
Neville Ryant and Mark Liberman, "Large-scale analysis of Spanish /s/-lenition using audiobooks", ICA 2016
2.
Semantics/Syntax//Phonology/Prosody
The second segment of the course will look at a case where it's less clear what the lexicon/morphology/phonology side of the issue is.
This involves several topics, each of which has hundreds if not thousands of relevant publications, from a wide variety of perspectives. The links below are meant to lay out a range of relevant ideas that is explicitly not complete, representative, or endorsed.
Background reading:
Bolinger,
Dwight L. "Intonation
and analysis." Word
5, no. 3 (1949): 248-254.
Mark Liberman and Ivan Sag, "Prosodic Form and Discourse Function", 1974.
Mats Rooth, "A Theory of Focus Interpretation", Natural Language Semantics 1992
Katalin Kiss, "Identificational Focus versus Information Focus", Language 1998.
Kochanski,
G., Grabe, E., Coleman, J. and Rosner, B ,
"Loudness
predicts prominence; fundamental frequency lends little",
The
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005.
Greg Kochanski and Christina Orphanidou, "What marks the beat of speech?", JASA 2008.
Pauline Welby, "Effects of Pitch Accent Position, Type, and Status on Focus Projection", Language and Speech 2003.
Vivek Sridhar et al., "Detecting Prominence in Conversational Speech: Pitch Accent, Givenness and Focus", 2008.
Mark Liberman, "Tone Without Pitch", ETAP 2015.
Manfred Krifka, "Association with
Focus Phrases", chapter 1 in The Architecture of Focus,
2006
Roger Schwarzschild, "Given Foci", Penn Linguistics Speaker Series Handout 11/11/2016.
Daniel
Büring,
Intonation
and Meaning, 2016
- chapters 1 & 2
Gjert Kristoffersen, "Dialect variation in East Norwegian tone", in Riad and Gussenhoven, Eds., Tones and Tunes, 2007
Gösta
Bruce, "Components
of a prosodic typology of Swedish intonation", in Riad and
Gussenhoven, Eds., Tones and Tunes, 2007