The Fieldwork Group in the department has just released the third video in a series aimed at language communities that talks about different ways that a linguist could support different projects. This video is about how linguists can help with various kinds of language apps.
Watch the video in the series playlist here.
The series so far includes:
Larry Horn edited a new collection entitled From Lying to Perjury, just published by De Gruyte
Jim Wood and Catarina Soares their paper “Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations” in Palermo, Italy, on May 26th.
Raffaella Zanuttini publishes new work highlighting previously unnoticed restrictions on indexical elements.
Dongmei Rao, former visiting scholar (19-20), and Jason Shaw published a paper entitled “The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: Acoustic evidence from a dialect island”. The paper reports new phonetic data linking synchronic variation in the production of velar and labiodental fricatives to patterns of diachronic merger of these sounds found across Southwestern Mandarin varieties.
Veneeta Dayal will deliver the Annual Henry and Teresa Biggs lecture at Washington University, St. Louis, MO on April 1, 2022. She will be speaking on “Genericity and (In)definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective”. In this talk, Dayal acknowledges that understandng of genericity and (in)definiteness are largely shaped by how these concpets are understood from an English language perspective, being the language in which these concepts were first studied.
Shaw’s article looks at micro-prosody as the study of duration and timing of speech events. Shaw presents a frameowrk to illustrate patterns of micro-prosody across languages. The framework presented in this paper is also intened to offer effective tools for phonetic documentation, and considers how micro-prosody relates to other levels of phonoloigcal structure and types of data that can infer aspects of micro-prosody. The article can be accessed at the link below.
