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Winter 2025 schedule

January 6, 2025UncategorizedEric Bakovic

Day & time: Mondays 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

1/6	planning meeting
1/13	Marc – A consideration of the consonant chart in the International Phonetic Alphabet Tabain, Marija, Garellek, Marc, & Gordon, Matthew. (2024). A consideration of the consonant chart in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 1-6). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.
1/20	[No PhonCo – Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday]
1/27	[Lunch & chat]
2/3	Discussion of Kpogo & Chang (2025), led by Ben
2/10	Discussion of Zhu et al. (2024), led by Mark
2/17	[No PhonCo – Presidents Day Holiday]
2/24	Andrew Nevins – “Early vs Late Inversion in the Šatrovački language game” (joint work with Aljosa Milenković)
3/3	Open House
3/10	Phonetic illustration of Taiyuan Jin (Jiaang’s dialect)

Fall 2024 schedule

September 30, 2024UncategorizedEric Bakovic

Day & time: Mondays 1-2pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

9/30	planning meeting
10/7	Sharon – Language and music in Ghanaian languages
10/14	Travis – discussion of “Korean vowel harmony has weak phonotactic support and has limited productivity” (Jinyoung Jo, Phonology, 2024)
10/21	Anthony – AMP poster
10/28	Eric – AMP practice talk
11/4	Marc – SSLA practice talk
11/11	[No PhonCo – Veterans Day Holiday]
11/18	Noah – emphasis harmony data
11/25	Ben – potential data discussion
12/2	Anthony – LSA practice talk

Spring 2024 schedule

April 2, 2024Uncategorizedmgarellek

Day & time: Mondays 1-2 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

4/1	planning meeting
4/8	No meeting
4/15	Ben: leading discussion of Whalen (2024)
4/22	Will: eye tracker demo
4/29	Anthony: practice ACAL talk
5/6	Marc: PGG
5/13	Mark: Naduhup tonogenesis
5/20	(currently open)
5/27	No meeting — Memorial Day
6/3	Eric: practice talk

Winter 2024 schedule

January 8, 2024Uncategorizedmgarellek

Day & time: Mondays 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

1/8	planning meeting
1/15	No meeting — MLK Holiday
1/22	Marc — Consonant devoicing
1/29	Maxine practice talk
2/5	Ben — Topic TBD
2/12	(Leave open for grad lunch with job candidate)
2/19	No meeting — President’s Day Holiday
2/26	~~Maxine — Chapter 3~~ CANCELLED
3/4	(Leave open for Open House)
3/11	Will — 🐋 Whale vowels 🐳

Fall 2023 Schedule

October 2, 2023Uncategorizedmgarellek

Day & time: Mondays 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

10/2	planning meeting
10/9	Marc on Mielke & Parker 2023
10/16	Noah on Hoberman 1988
10/23	Anthony on (double) downstep in Toussian
10/30	Marc on phonology of phonation types
11/6	Ben on Arabic
11/13	Sharon (TBA)
11/20	THANKSGIVING WEEK (no meeting)
11/27	Shai on late first-language acquisition of phonological processing
12/4	Noah – practice LSA talk

Monday, 4/25, 12pm: John Alderete, “Using the Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED)”

April 7, 2023UncategorizedEric Bakovic

The Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED) is a multi-purpose database designed to support both language production and linguistic research. This talk reviews some recent research results from English and Cantonese (http://www.sfu.ca/people/alderete/sfused) as a way of explaining the logic of the database and how it can be used in new projects. It also identifies some of the current limitations of the SFUSED and sketches how planned developments of lexical, morpho-syntactic, and phonological structure can address them.

Spring 2023 schedule

April 3, 2023UncategorizedEric Bakovic

Day & time: Mondays 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

4/3	planning meeting
4/10	No PhonCo [conflict with NLP job talk]
4/17	Marc on phonation types (handbook chapter ideas)
4/24	John Alderete – “Using the Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED)“
5/1	~~Marc “Tense voice and the role of non-contrastive elements in sound change” (HISPhonCog talk)~~
5/8	Marc “Tense voice and the role of non-contrastive elements in sound change” (HISPhonCog talk)
5/15	Maxine on new Chapter 1!
5/22	Mark on Tira metaphony
5/29	MEMORIAL DAY
6/5	Ben – practice ICPhS talk

Winter 2023 schedule

January 18, 2023UncategorizedEric Bakovic

Day & time: Mondays 1-2pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

1/9	planning meeting
1/23	Marc
1/30	Ben
2/6	Reconsidering classic ideas in speech communication (Ben leads discussion of McMurray)
2/13	no meeting
2/27	Reconsidering classic ideas in speech communication (Marc leads discussion of Baese-Berk et al. or Will leads discussion of Hauser)
3/6	OPEN HOUSE
3/13	Olivia? Marc?

Fall 2022 schedule

September 27, 2022UncategorizedEric Bakovic

Day & time: Mondays 1-2pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: AP&M 4218 and occasionally (also) Zoom

9/26	planning meeting
10/3	Marc – Phonology and phonetics of Totonac “laryngealized vowels”
10/10	Eric – Faithfulness and underspecification (practice AMP poster)
10/17	[No meeting.]
10/24 [Zoom]	Post-AMP debrief [virtual]
10/31 [Zoom]	Shai — phonological errors of ASL signers across age of acquisition [virtual]
11/7	Olivia – “Non-identity Reduplication as Maximal Iconicity” (practice HDLS 15 talk)
11/14	[No meeting.]
11/21 [Zoom]	Marc – practice ASA meeting poster
11/28	[No meeting.]

Monday 4/18/2022, 12pm: Sharon Rose, “Tone language-to-music transfer effects do not appear in Akan”

April 15, 2022UncategorizedEric Bakovic

(joint work with Sarah Creel and Michael Obiri-Yeboah)

Recent research suggests that speaking a tone language confers benefits in processing pitch in nonlinguistic contexts such as music. This research largely compares speakers of non-tone European languages (English, French) with speakers of tone languages in East Asia (Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Thai). However, tone languages exist on multiple continents, notably languages indigenous to Africa and the Americas. With one exception (Bradley, 2016), no research has assessed whether these tone languages also confer pitch processing advantages. The current pair of studies examined pitch perception using a melody change detection task in speakers of Akan, a tone language of Ghana, plus speakers from previously-tested populations (non-tone language speakers and East Asian tone language speakers). In both cases, Akan speakers showed no musical pitch processing advantage over non-tone speakers, despite comparable or better in instrument change detection. Results suggest limits on the inference that tone languages automatically confer pitch processing benefits.