Events
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Friday November 6, 2009
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Lexical processing in two language varieties: An event-related brain potential study of Arabic native speakers
Wednesday November 11, 2009
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
In the seminar room (SBS S207)
Friday November 13, 2009
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
This talk will be on Friday, November 13th at 3:30 in SAC 304.
Title:
that’s nothing: the grammar of complementizer omissibility
Rutgers University
(grimshaw@ruccs.rutgers.edu)
Friday November 20, 2009
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Coda devoicing and perceptual similarity
Languages resolve voiced obstruents in codas by devoicing but not by any other phonological means (i.e. nasalization, deletion or epenthesis). For example, the underlying /ab/ can become [ap], but not *[am], *[aba] or *[a]. Steriade (2001/2008) claims that (i) speakers maximize the similarity between inputs and outputs, assuming that (ii) devoicing yields an outcome that is most similar to the original form.
In this talk, I present my recent attempts to test the premise of this hypothesis (clause (ii) above).
Friday December 4, 2009
