C-ORAL BRASIL

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Description

The C-ORAL-BRASIL group invites all interested to register for the free course Articulatory Prosody and the Syllable, to be taught by Profs. Donna Erickson (Haskins Labs, USA, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan) & Malin Svensson Lundmark (Lund University, Sweden; Southern Denmark University).
This course will focus primarily on English syllables, and how their articulation is affected by the prominence patterns of the language. We hypothesize that the jaw is the syllable articulator—it opens and closes for each syllable. Vowel height affects how much the jaw opens, as do utterance prominence patterns. For a “big” syllable (e.g., emphasis, nuclear stress, phrasal stress) the jaw opens more, and for a reduced syllable, it opens less. The hypothesis entertained here is that the jaw thus is a prosodic articulator (together with the larynx). We will discuss various articulatory and perceptual experiments that support this hypothesis. We also will discuss new Swedish data showing that syllable type, whether the syllable is open (CV) or closed (CVC), affects articulatory coordination. Specifically, we examine coordination between the jaw and the segmental articulators, i.e., lips, tongue tip, tongue blade, and how the timing of this coordination varies depending on whether the syllable is open or closed. We also will discuss future avenues of exploration-- segmental and syllabic articulatory contributions to phrasal boundaries, cross-linguistic differences in articulation, applications to first/second language acquisition and language disorders, and incorporation of the segmental and syllabic articulators with the laryngeal articulator.
Period2023 Mar 10 → 2023 Mar 22
VisitingC-ORAL BRASIL
Degree of RecognitionInternational

UKÄ subject classification

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

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