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Merger, reversal of merger, and phonetic imitation| old_uid | 12001 |
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| title | Merger, reversal of merger, and phonetic imitation |
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| start_date | 2016/07/11 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Organiser: Laurent Prévot |
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| summary | In the study of sound change and variation, merger of two phonetic
categories is widely-observed and well documented; on the contrary,
the reversal of a merger, i.e. two merged categories becoming distinct
again, is much less studied and often considered to be impossible. In
this talk, I will go through (1) a recent study on a vowel merger reversal
in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that is attributed to language contact with
Mandarin Chinese, and (2) some work-in-progress on merger reversal
in spontaneous phonetic imitation. In the course of this talk, I will also
introduce some basic features of the sound systems of Chinese languages. |
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