Su Erasmus dėstymo vizitu Filologijos fakultete svečiuojasi tipologė-fonologė iš Salonikų Aristotelio unversiteto prof. Nina Topintzi. Maloniai kviečiame į prof. Ninos Topintzi seminarą Beyond and above the segment: the phonology of onsets, gegužės 8 d., trečiadienį, 15 val., 314B aud.
Nina Topintzi teigia, kad priebalsiai, pradedantys skiemenį, turi ženklų poveikį prosodijai.
Nina Topintzi — Salonikų Aristotelio universiteto profesorė (teorinė bei taikomoji kalbotyra, anglistika). Jos interesų sritys — skiemens struktūra, prosodija, ryšiai tarp morfologijos ir fonologijos, kalbų tipologija bendrai. Daugybės tarptautinių publikacijų autorė (Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Linguistic Inquiry, Glossa, Journal of Greek Linguistics), monografijos, išleistos Cambridge Univeresity Press autorė.
Anotacija (anglų k.):
The consonant–vowel (CV) syllable is cross-linguistically the preferred syllable type. It consists of a nucleus (typically a vowel) and an onset—the consonant that precedes it. The phonology of onsets has been thoroughly investigated on the (sub)segmental level, regarding cluster phonotactics and co-occurrence restrictions. What has received much less attention is the phonology of onsets on the supra-segmental level. In fact, most standard theories (e.g. Hayes 1989) hold that onsets are prosodically inert and only rimes—the nucleus-coda sequences—are relevant to prosodic phenomena. In this talk, I show that this view is incorrect; drawing on my own work (Topintzi 2010, 2022; Topintzi & Davis 2017; Topintzi & Nevins 2017, a.o.), as well as much other research (Gordon 2005; Shinohara and Fujimoto 2011; Ryan 2014; Lubera 2024, a.o.), I present empirical evidence from a variety of languages and phenomena (including stress, compensatory lengthening, allomorphy, gemination and word minimality) that showcase the onset’s participation and contribution to suprasegmental phonology. I also discuss the implications for the typology of syllable and weight theories.
References
- Gordon, Matthew. 2005. A perceptually-driven account of onset-sensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23. 595–653.
- Hayes, Bruce. 1989. Compensatory lengthening in moraic phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 253–306.
- Lubera, Amber. 2024. Sensitivity to complex onsets in Iron Ossetian. Phonological Data and Analysis 6(2). 1–40. https://doi.org/10.3765/PDA.V6ART2.71.
- Ryan, Kevin M. 2014. Onsets contribute to syllable weight: Statistical evidence from stress and meter. Language 90(2). 309–341. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2014.0029.
- Shinohara, Shigeko & Masako Fujimoto. 2011. Moraicity of Initial Geminates in the Tedumuni Dialect of Okinawa. ICPhS 17. 1826–1829.
- Topintzi, Nina. 2010. Onsets: Suprasegmental and prosodic behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Topintzi, Nina. 2022. A new phonological analysis of geminates in Cypriot Greek. Journal of Greek linguistics 22(1). 36–71. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02201002.
- Topintzi, Nina & Stuart Davis. 2017. On the weight of edge geminates. In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, 260–282. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Topintzi, Nina & Andrew Nevins. 2017. Moraic onsets in Arrernte. Phonology 34(3). 615–650. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675717000306.