10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Language Variation and Change Research Group
Presentation by Samantha Jackson (postdoc) on variation in Trinidadian children's speech.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Phonetics/Phonology Research Group
Qandeel Hussain (postdoc): "Development of rhotic vowels in Kalasha: Language contact, sound change, and biomechanical modeling."
Rhotic vowels are found in fewer than 1% of the world's languages. While vowel rhoticity may be considered marginal from a broad crosslinguistic perspective, it is a basic vowel feature in Kalasha, an endangered Dardic (Indo-Aryan) language which contrasts a full set of oral /i e a o u/, nasal /ĩ ẽ ã õ ũ/, rhotic /i˞ e˞ a˞ o˞ u˞ /, and rhotic-nasal /ĩ˞ ẽ˞ ã˞ õ˞ ũ˞ / vowels. In this talk I present findings of an ongoing project which investigates the development of phonemic rhotic vowels in Kalasha.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Syntax Group
Alec Kienzle (Ph.D.): "Insubordination of an SR clause construction."
Recent literature has analyzed switch-reference (SR) as a type of complementizer agreement (Arregi and Hanink 2018, Clem 2019). Subject coreference is tracked through a probe which interacts with both subjects. Inuktitut has a dependent clause construction, the conjunctive mood, which morphologically marks whether its subject has the same or different reference than the matrix clause subject. I look at cases where the conjunctive mood undergoes insubordination (Evans 2007): where the dependent clause can stand alone to express a particular meaning. This phenomenon creates difficulties for assumptions about SR clause derivation, as there is no matrix clause in an insubordinate construction. How can we derive this pattern?
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