LING521 - Spring 2019
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 , 2018
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.
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.Neville Ryant and Mark Liberman, "Large-scale analysis of Spanish /s/-lenition using audiobooks", ICA 2016
2. Portuguese Vowel Lenition
David
Silva,. "The
variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese:
a case study." 1994.
David
Silva. "The variable deletion of
unstressed vowels in Faialense Portuguese." Language
Variation and Change
1997.
David
SIlva. "Vowel
lenition in Sao Miguel Portuguese." Hispania 1998.
Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma, Andréia Schurt Rauber, and Ricardo AH Bion. "A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese." JASA 2009.
Leda
Bisol and João Veloso. "Phonological
Processes Affecting Vowels: Neutralization, Harmony, and
Nasalization." The
Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics (2016):
69-85.
Juliana
Simoes Fonte. "The unstressed vocalism in
the history of Portuguese." Alfa:
Revista de Lingüística
2017.
3. Allophonic Variation