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SFB 471:
Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon Project D9: Phonological Patterns and Subregularities in the Lexicon Funded by
the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Funding Period:
2006 - 2008 |
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People:
Summary of the
Project: We investigate the status of
phonological regularities and subregularities in
the lexicon in an attempt to develop a wider conception of lexical knowledge.
The primary objective is to experimentally unveil representational
differences in static vs. phonological regularities as they pertain to vowel
harmony or stress, and to evaluate the consequences of the findings for the
nature of grammar and the lexicon. The languages to be studied are Hungarian
and Turkish. We have been conducting psycholinguistic experiments to
understand how harmonic vs. disharmonic vowel sequences are represented in
the mind, and how users can exploit this information in language processing.
Furthermore, we also look at disharmonic patterns in a set of corpora
available to us to understand the nature of constraints on vowel harmony. The
project also aims to look at diachronic aspects of phonological subregularities (disharmony, lexical stress) to shed
light on harmony and those that eventually contribute to its loss. Current research
focus of our group: Vowel
co-occurrence patterns in the lexicon and statistic subregularities
in Turkish vowel disharmony, The role of
phonological regularities in high-level auditory processing: Listeners use
of harmony and (edge-most) stress patterns for word segmentation (in
collaboration with Dr. Nina Kazanina, The typology and
genesis of lexical stress patterns (esp. pre- and post-accenting morphemes (in
collaboration with Dr. Anthi Revithiadou,
University of the Aegean, Influence of
native language phonological patterns and vowel inventories on low level
auditory perception, First and second
formant discrimination thresholds as a function of native vowel height and backness distinctions, Spectral ripple
detection thresholds depending on density of native vowel (in collaboration with
Allard Jongman, Acoustic,
phonetic, and phonological factors in non-native speech perception Databases: Average Formant Values for Turkish vowels based on 2
speakers Workshops: 1. Discovering and Representing Phonological Patterns (together
with Janet Grijzenhout and Muna
Pohl, D8) 10-12
April 2008 Invited international speakers: Heather
Goad (McGill) John
Goldsmith ( Paul
Iverson (UC London) Rene Kager ( Nina Kazanina ( Nicole Altvater-Mackensen ( Nivedita
Mani ( Anthi
Revithiadou ( 2. Phonological Domains, Universals and Deviations
(29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Siegen). Organizers: Janet Grijzenhout
and Baris Kabak. Invited
speakers: Harry van der Hulst Aditi Lahiri Frans Plank Papers and
Presentations: Publications Kabak,
B. (2007): Vowel assimilation across words in Turkish. Turkic Languages 11: 181-195. 1. Kabak, B. &
K. Maniwa (2007): L2 perception of English
fricatives in clear and conversational speech: the role of phonetic
similarity and L1 interference. Proceedings
of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007: 781-784. 2. 3. Kabak, B. &
A. Revithiadou (to appear): An interface account
for prosodic word recursivity. In: Grijzenhout,
J. & B. Kabak (Eds.): Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations. 4. 5. Kabak, B. &
I. Vogel (to appear): Exceptions to stress and harmony: cophonologies
or prespecification? In: Simon, H. & H. Wiese
(Eds.) Expecting the unexpected:
exceptions in grammar. 6. 7. Kabak, B. &
I. Vogel (to appear): Feature spreading, truncation and underspecification.
In: Simon, H. & H. Wiese (Eds.) Expecting
the unexpected: 8. 9. Kabak, B. &
A. Revithiadou (under review): From edgemost to lexical stress: Developmental paths, typology
and representation. The Linguistic
Review. 10. 11. Maniwa, K., A. Jongman, & T. Wade (2007): Acoustic correlates of intelligibility enhancements in clearly produced
fricatives. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007: 406-409. 12. 13. Maniwa, K, A. Jongman, & T. Wade (to appear): Perception of clear
English fricatives by normal-hearing and simulated hearing-impaired
listeners. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of 14. 15. Maniwa, K, A. Jongman, & T. Wade (under review): Acoustic
characteristics of clearly spoken English fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Books: 16. Grijzenhout, J. &
B. Kabak (Eds.): Phonological Domains: Universals
and Deviations (Interface Explorations Series). In Progress Kabak, B. & K. Maniwa:
Acoustic, phonetic, and phonological factors in perceiving non-native sounds.
To be submitted to Journal of Phonetics. Kabak, B., K. Maniwa, & N. Kazanina: The role of stress and vowel harmony in word
segmentation: A cross-linguistic study. (2-page abstract submitted to LabPhon 11). Kabak, B., K. Maniwa, & S. Weber: Patterns
and subregularities in Turkish vowel harmony: A
corpus study. Conference Presentations &
Talks Kabak, B., K. Maniwa & S. Weber: Vowel harmony constrains disharmony: A corpus study. Paper
accepted for an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America, Kabak, B. & F. Plank: Phonology
and word class distinctions. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial Meeting
of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Kabak, B. & O. Kounakova: Russian and German Listeners
Discrimination of English Interdentals and
Sibilants. Poster presented at the European Second Language Acquisition
Conference 2007, Kabak, B. & K. Maniwa: L2 Perception of English Fricatives in Clear and Conversational
Speech: The Role of Phonetic Similarity and L1 Interference. Paper
presented at the European Second Language Acquisition Conference 2007,
Maniwa, K., A. Jongman & T. Wade: Acoustic correlates of intelligibility
enhancements in clearly produced fricatives. Poster presented at the Interspeech 2007, Kabak, B. & M. Maniwa: L2 Perception of English Fricatives in Clear and Conversational
Speech. Poster presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007,
Maniwa, K., A. Jongman & T. Wade: Perception of clear English fricatives.
Poster presented at the Acoustical Society of America, Kabak, B.: An interface account of
prosodic recursivity. Paper presented at the
15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Kabak, B., N. Kazanina & K. Maniwa: The role of
vowel harmony and stress in speech segmentation. SFB Colloquium, Maniwa, K.: Acoustics and perception
of clear speech. SFB Colloquim, Kabak, B.: Hiatus resolution in
Turkish. Invited talk presented at Kabak, B.: Patterns and subregularities in vowel (dis)harmony.
Invited talk presented at the Workshop: Vowel Harmony in the
Languages of the Kabak, B.: L2 representations are not
flawless: The case of L2 consonant clusters. Paper presented at the
European Second Language Acquisition Conference 2006, Kabak, B. & H. Altmann: Tenacity of L1 phonological knowledge: Evidence from L2 Perception.
Invited talk presented at Kabak, B. & A. Revithiadou: The Phonology of Clitic
Groups: Evidence from Turkish and Links: SFB 471: Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon TELL
(Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon) Morphological Typology: Agglutination-Flexion Prof. Dr. Baris Kabak Fach D180 78457 Konstanz
Sekretariat: Irene Wolke Raum: G 213 Tel.: +49 7531 88-4166, Fax: +49
7531 88-4160 |
Barış Kabak
Last
modified: January
2008