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SATURDAY
8:30 - 9:00
Coffee / Registration
Coffee / Registration
9:00 - 10:30
Session 3
Chair: Björn Köhnlein
Session 3
Chair: Björn Köhnlein
9:00 - 9:30
Liam SMITH & Arto ANTTILA
Stanford University
Metrical tension and prose cadence (abstract)9:30 - 10:00
Ben EISCHENS¹, Eric W. CAMPBELL², Simon PETERS², Inî MENDOZA³
¹ University of California, Los Angeles, ² University of California, Santa Barbara, ³ Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales
Tonally conditioned laryngogenesis in San Martín Peras Mixtec (abstract)10:00 - 10:30
Florian LIONNET
Princeton University
Severing register from tone: the case for underlying downstep (abstract)
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Break
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:45
Session 4
Chair: Huteng Dai
Session 4
Chair: Huteng Dai
13:15 - 13:45
Aidan SHARMA
Rutgers University
Two-degree vowel reduction in Uyghur: "Umlaut" as moderate reduction (abstract)13:45 - 14:15
Jarry CHUANG
University of Connecticut
Where are you from? The status of prenuclear glide in Mandarin (abstract)14:15 - 14:45
Kevin LIANG, Victoria MATEU, Bruce HAYES
University of California, Los Angeles
An experimental study of Catalan consonant alternations (abstract)
14:45 - 15:00
Break
Break
16:30 - 16:45
Break
Break
16:45 - 17:45
Plenary Session
Chair: Adam Jardine
Plenary Session
Chair: Adam Jardine
Kathryn FRANICH
Harvard University
Co-Speech Gestures as a Window into Phonological Knowledge
Phonological description and analysis tend to draw heavily on a combination of speaker intuitions and acoustic-phonetic output from speech as evidence for grammatical patterns. Some phenomena, such as stress and metrical structure, tend to be difficult to assess based on these types of data alone: speaker intuitions about metrical prominence are often difficult to elicit, and phonetic correlates to stress are highly variable across languages and easily confused with cues to other prosodic events (de Lacy 2012; Roettger & Gordon 2017). In this talk, I discuss how co-speech gestures—movements of the hands, arms, head, etc. that are temporally coordinated to speech—can highlight patterns of prominence which may be difficult to assess based on acoustic patterns alone. I draw on data from two Niger-Congo languages (Medʉmba and Igbo) with quite different prosodic structures to demonstrate how gesture provides a unifying source of evidence of prominence across the two. For Medʉmba, gestures tend to cluster around the initial position of the stem, while for Igbo, competing constraints on the location of gestures suggest metrical organization at both the word level and the tonal level. I then briefly sketch some links between gesture and music as sister ‘coordinative practices’ in revealing patterns of metrical organization in language. Finally, I present preliminary cross-linguistic comparisons of gesture timing in Medʉmba and English (US and Cameroonian varieties) which suggest that gesture (and coordinative practices more broadly) may have a role to play in explaining typological variation in the phonetic manifestation of metrical prominence.
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