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SUMMARY:Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: M
 eanings and forms -  Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University)
DTSTART:20190509T160000Z
DTEND:20190509T173000Z
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CONTACT:Yixin Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Phonetic implementation is the conversion of a surface phonolo
 gical representation into an acoustic signal that represents a canonical p
 ronunciation. My interest in this talk is in two ways in which speakers ca
 n modify this process\, one targeting the meaning of the message and the o
 ther its phonology. The first concerns the addition of paralanguage to the
  meaning expressed by the linguistic structure. Here\, I will argue that p
 aralinguistic meaning is not always affective. I will report results of a 
 categorical perception experiment suggesting that question intonation in a
  variety of Mandarin is expressed paralinguistically. The second target of
  speaker intervention concerns form\, i.e.\, phonological contrasts. Incom
 plete neutralization\, which for instance causes a shorter [t] in [bʊnt] 
 from /bʊnd/ ‘union’ than in [bʊnt] from /bʊnt/ ‘colourful’\, ma
 y be one type of result of such intervention. I will contrast two views of
  how speaker intervention might have created the deviation from phonetic s
 ameness. One focuses on traces of the underlying forms in surface represen
 tations. It predicts that we will see mini-versions of the underlying form
 s in the phonetics. The other focuses on the derivational event\, i.e.\, o
 n the effect of the synchronic derivational pass in one or both of two neu
 tralized forms. It predicts that a neutralized surface form that has under
 gone a derivation will be pronounced less confidently than an underived su
 rface form. I will present preliminary data from an investigation (with Le
 i Wang) of neutralizing tone sandhi in Mandarin which supports the second 
 view.\n
LOCATION:GR05\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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