Intonation Lunch
From Lisa Selkirk:
Noah Constant is going to give a presentation on some general properties of
intonation in Chinese this Friday in the intonation lunch. This is of interest
from a typological point of view, since Chinese has lexical tone and therefore
makes no place for the 'intonational pitch accents' which are commonly taken to
reflect information structure in English and other nontonal languages.
All are welcome. Bagels etc. will be provided as usual...
Time: 12:15.
Place:
Partee Room.
Prosody Matters
Three announcements from Lisa Selkirk:
- The intonation lunch will resume this Friday at 12:15 with an examination
of the prosody of Right Node Raising constructions using pitch tracks from an
earlier expt. study. Lunch will be provided, in the form of bagels and cheese,
as usual (the many leftover bagels from SALT will NOT be used...).
- The program for the upcoming prosody conference at Cornell, Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (April 11-13) is now posted.
- Our thanks to Mara Breen for reporting on some of her research this past Wednesday! Mara is a postdoc in UMass Amherst Psychology who did her recent dissertation work on intonation and information structure with Ted Gibson at MIT.
[Thanks Lisa!]
Intonation Lunch on March 28
The Intonation Lunch group meets next on March 28, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. The discussion will be about the pitch contours of sentences with Right Node Raising in English.
[Thanks Lisa S!]
Shigeto Kawahara at the Intonation Lunch
Shigeto Kawahara (2007 UMass Amherst Linguistics PhD; now Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia) will give a talk on the universality of the prosodic hierarchy this Friday, March 7, at 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room (South College 301).
[Thanks Lisa!]
Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast 2
The second SPINE (Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast) will take place on Saturday, May 20, starting at 1:00 pm in the new lounge. The program boasts three young scholars from the Northeast (broadly speaking):
| 1:00-2:15 |
Shin Ishihara |
Major phrases, focus intontation, multiple spellout |
| 2:30-3:45 |
Marjorie Pak |
Modelling the structural conditions on two types of phrasal rules |
| 4:00-5:15 |
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour |
Sentence stress: Phonology or syntax |
The talks will be 45 minutes long, followed by a half hour of discussion and a
15 minute coffee break.
Notes:
- Shin is currently a researcher in the Information Structure Research Program in
the Linguistics Department at the University of Potsdam. His PhD is from
MIT (2002).
- Marjorie is working on her syntax-phonology interface dissertation at UPenn.
- Arsalan is Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Syracuse. He
received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2004.
[Thanks Lisa!]
