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DESCRIPTION:Phonological signatures in words: Evidence from\nproduction and
  perception of diphthongs\nAnne Pycha (UMass Amherst)\nThis talk wrestles 
 with two big problems that face phonology.\nFirst\, non-local dependencies
  in phonology are not widely attested\,\ndespite the fact that they are co
 mmon at other levels of linguistic\nanalysis\, such as syntax. Second\, ma
 ny phonological processes bear\nclose resemblance to phonetic processes\, 
 suggesting that no real\ndifference exists between abstract phonological s
 tructures and the\nphysical events of articulation. In this talk\, I pursu
 e the\nhypothesis that phonologically contrastive processes exhibit\nacous
 tic “signatures” that are a) non‐local and b) absent from\notherwise simil
 ar phonetic processes. Experiment 1 demonstrates\nthat English speakers pr
 oduce non‐local dependencies in order to\nmaintain contrast between words 
 such as bite vs. bide\, but not in\norder to accomplish other tasks\, such
  as changing speech rates or\nsignaling phrasal positions. Experiments 2 &
  3 demonstrate that\nEnglish listeners can use these dependencies to perce
 ptually\ndistinguish between words like bite vs. bide\, even in the absenc
 e\nof other cues. The upshot of these findings\, which build on\nprevious 
 work that I ave done in Hungarian\, is that phonology does\nuse non‐local 
 dependencies\, and these dependencies crucially\ndistinguish it from phone
 tics. I analyze non‐locality in both\nlanguages as motivated by a need to 
 target maximal segments\, and I\nexamine the implications of this analysis
  for cross‐linguistic\ntypology.\n
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LOCATION:Education Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3700 rue McTav
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SUMMARY:9I��������� Linguistics Phonology Job Talk - Anne Pycha (UMass Amherst)
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