Winter 2025 Linguistics Colloquium Series: "Testing Message-Oriented Phonology in the Signed Modality" Kathleen Currie Hall (UBC)
Winter 2025 Linguistics Colloquium Series, Speaker: Kathleen Currie Hall (UBC)
Talk Title: Testing Message-Oriented Phonology in the Signed Modality
Abstract: In this presentation, I will explain the general principles of “Message-Oriented” phonology (MOP), in which language is situated as part of a communication system, and phonology arises at least in part due to pressures to communicate meaningful units both accurately and cost-effectively. I will consider the various predictions such an approach makes for phonological structures, and then show how those predictions can be usefully tested by comparing spoken to signed languages. In the course of that discussion, I will introduce some of the specific phonetic and computational tools we have been developing at UBC to help facilitate such testing.
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hitchcock Hall (HCK). Campus room: Hitchcock Hall 320. Accessibility Contact: linguw@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, February 28, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.