Richard Hatcher

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📄 Read the full study, complete with data and in-depth analysis, here! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdiLixzz... 8/8

💥 This highlights the unique prosodic structure of Seoul Korean and offers a nuanced understanding of how focus operates in edge-prominence languages without altering phrasing. 7/8

🔀 However, prosodic phrasing is sensitive to various sources of information beyond focus, like syntax, phonological length, and semantics. Speakers might avoid placing a phrase boundary before the focused word, but still signal prominence effectively. 6/8

💡 Interestingly, focus-induced prominence strengthening in Seoul Korean shares many characteristics with domain-initial strengthening. This includes an LH rise associated with the focused element, even without the presence of a prosodic boundary. 5/8

📈 In our study, phrase-initial focus results in clear tonal expansion, but in phrase-medial and crucially in phrase-final positions, we see subtle adjustments to the intonational contour without evidence for rephrasing, challenging the expected patterns for focus. 4/8

🌍 Unlike head-prominence languages (e.g., Western Germanic and Romance), Seoul Korean doesn't rely on pitch accents on stressed syllables. Instead, focus in Seoul Korean is argued to be marked by phrasing, with a prosodic boundary being inserted directly before the focused element. 3/8

🔍 We examined Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language, focusing on how narrow corrective focus affects tonal distribution in short 5-syllable Intonational Phrases (IPs). These short IPs were specifically chosen to minimize the likelihood of the formation of multiple accentual phrases. 2/8

🚀 Excited to share findings from our new study on the intonation of focus in Seoul Korean, now published in Journal of Phonetics! A thread🧵 1/8

📄 Read the full study, complete with data and in-depth analysis, here! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdiLixzz... 8/8

🔍 We examined Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language, focusing on how narrow corrective focus affects tonal distribution in short 5-syllable Intonational Phrases (IPs). These short IPs were specifically chosen to minimize the likelihood of the formation of multiple accentual phrases. 2/7

I wonder whether intonation can tease apart the word hood of these morphemes. Can you phrase these three independently in a way that is impossible for 거라면서들?

Is the Korean a single word or three, “못 볼 거라면서들“?

Hey folks, I’m looking for a postdoc whose interested in speech, prosody, and patient work. www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/posi...

Similar lost opportunity here when I was an undergrad at University of Oklahoma. :/ but hopefully made up for it in Grad school under Karin Michelson.

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Deadline Nov 6: Phonology, tenure-track asst. prof., McGill. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Hi #stats folks! Curious about how GAMs work behind the scenes? I've put together a shiny app to demonstrate how changing the coefficients for basis functions for a smooth affects the final fitted smooth and the penalty. Looking for any feedback on the UI! 206.12.100.5/gam-basis-de...

Very nice

Is the final /l/ a diminutive? If so, do you know its origins? It seems like it may not be Germanic.

While I was at the University of Oklahoma, I used this as a shibboleth for people from Missouri. Most Oklahomans and Texans said Missour[i], while (especially rural) Missour(i)ans used Missour[ə].

Cayuga language names for the months and their approximate English glosses.

The Cayuga (Iroquoian) language uses similar descriptive names for the year. Theirs traditionally was a lunar calendar.

An image from Legend of Zelda for the NES. Link is holding a piece of the Triforce.

Squote with a game that’s nostalgic to you