[lingtalks] Matt Goldrick, Mon 19 Oct (linguistics Colloquium)

[Klinton Bicknell]

On Monday 19 October at 3pm, Matt Goldrick (Northwestern; 
http://ling.northwestern.edu/~goldrick/ ) will give a colloquium in the 
UCSD Linguistics Department, in AP&M 4301.

:: Abstract ::
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(Non)modularity in Speech Production and Phonological Grammars*/

Generative grammars typically assume a modular architecture, where 
distinct components of linguistic knowledge are represented by 
independent, isolated sub-systems. For example, the phonological 
lexicon, which specifies relatively arbitrary properties of word form, 
is independent of phonological/phonetic knowledge. I'll discuss recent 
work in speech production that suggests these two components of 
knowledge interact in a non-discrete fashion. I'll review experimental 
work documenting the phenomenon of lexically conditioned phonetic 
variation--where whole-word properties (e.g., lexical frequency, 
neighborhood density) affect the fine-grained phonetic realization of 
that word (e.g., word duration, precise voice onset time of initial 
stops). I'll then sketch how such phenomena can be accounted for within 
grammatical theories (in particular, Harmonic Grammar) by incorporating 
gradient phonological representations.

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