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Shawn Gaffney

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:57:27 -0400

Start: 11/04/2009 - 12:45pm

End: 11/04/2009 - 2:00pm

In the seminar room (SBS S207)

Reem Khamis-Dakwar

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:48:24 -0500

Start: 11/06/2009 - 3:30pm

End: 11/06/2009 - 5:00pm

Lexical processing in two language varieties: An event-related brain potential study of Arabic native speakers

Roksolana Mykhaylyk

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:58:21 -0400

Start: 11/11/2009 - 12:45pm

End: 11/11/2009 - 2:00pm

In the seminar room (SBS S207)

Jane Grimshaw - SAC 304

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:11 -0500

Start: 11/13/2009 - 3:30pm

End: 11/13/2009 - 5:00pm

This talk will be on Friday, November 13th at 3:30 in SAC 304.

Title:
that’s nothing: the grammar of complementizer omissibility

Jane Grimshaw

Rutgers University
(grimshaw@ruccs.rutgers.edu)

Shigeto Kawahara - Location TBA

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:59:57 -0500

Start: 11/20/2009 - 3:30pm

End: 11/20/2009 - 5:00pm

Coda devoicing and perceptual similarity

Languages resolve voiced obstruents in codas by devoicing but not by any other phonological means (i.e. nasalization, deletion or epenthesis). For example, the underlying /ab/ can become [ap], but not *[am], *[aba] or *[a]. Steriade (2001/2008) claims that (i) speakers maximize the similarity between inputs and outputs, assuming that (ii) devoicing yields an outcome that is most similar to the original form.
In this talk, I present my recent attempts to test the premise of this hypothesis (clause (ii) above).