Invited Talks

Analyzing the rate of language change

Josef Fruehwald (2012)

Abstract

In this talk, I will argue that it is possible to determine whether the influence of one segment on another is phonetic or phonological by examining how they interact during sound change. I will begin with an introduction to the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus, which has been developed at Penn. It

Presented at Newcastle University, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

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Using Speech Community Data as Phonological Evidence

Josef Fruehwald (2011)

Abstract

Classically, patterns of systematic alternations or static distributions in the description of a language have constituted the lion's share of phonological evidence. More recently, laboratory studies have been added to the collection of evidentiary tools for phonological investigation. Both of these approaches have provided the foundations of modern phonological theory,

Presented at Penn State Center for Language Science

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