CASTL

Center for Advanced Study
in Theoretical Linguistics

 

Phonology Reading Group (PRG)

Fall 2005

Inventories and Processes: Structural implications

Every Friday, starting September 9th

10:15-12:00

Room E1004

 

The phonology seminar this semester will be organized as a lab session in which we will be pushing some aspects of Parallel Structures Model of segmental structure (Morén 2003, 2004) forward, especially in the context of the notion of "selective global comparison" as discussed in the CASTL umbrella project.

Instead of discussing recent articles, the meetings will rather be a collective effort to move joint and individual research on this topic forward.

Nonetheless, if you are interested in what we're doing and want to come along for the discussion, you're welcome to. We'll also plan to give a Thursday evening seminar in a while, to let those of you who can't attend the weekly sessions know about our work and the progress we're making.

·  Schedule

·  Downloads

·  Contact

 

Schedule:

Date                 Who                What

Sept. 9             Bruce               Organization/Orientation Meeting

Sept. 16           Bruce               “Toward an Analysis of Palauan Sound Patterns”

Sept. 23           Bruce               “Toward an Analysis of Rapanui Sound Patterns” and comparing the inventories and                                                 feature use in 9 languages

Sept. 30           Ove                 “Feature Distinctions in Small Inventories: Some New Guinea languages (starting with
                                                Rotokas and Asmat.)”

 

Downloads:

·  Research Proposal (draft) - Using Selective Global Comparison to Investigate the Nature of Phonological Features and the Range of Variation in Segment Inventories and Phonological Processes

·  Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry (Morén 2003)

·  Consonant-Vowel Interaction in Serbian: Features, Representations and Constraint Interactions (Morén to appear)

·  Acquisition Decision Trees (Morén 2003) - Some thoughts on acquisition

·  The Segmental Sound Patterns of Palauan

·  The Segmental Sound Patterns of Rapanui

·  The Segmental Sound Patterns of Maori

·  Individual charts and representations for 4 Polynesian and 2 Slavic languages

·  Summary chart of the segment inventories of 7 Polynesian and 2 Slavic languages using the Parallel Structures Model

·   The Segmental Sound Patterns of Sye

Contact:

Bruce Morén, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway  

phone: (47) 77 64 42 42

E-Mail: bruce.moren@hum.uit.no

 

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Last updated September 2005 -- By the way, my name is pronounced like "more rain" with the stress on the second syllable.  (Bruce Morén)

 

 

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