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Start: 12:45 pm
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In the seminar room (SBS S207)

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Start: 3:30 pm
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This talk will be on Friday, November 13th at 3:30 in SAC 304.

Title:
that’s nothing: the grammar of complementizer omissibility

Jane Grimshaw

Rutgers University
(grimshaw@ruccs.rutgers.edu)

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Start: 3:30 pm
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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).

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