Department of Linguistics

The Graduate Linguistics Society will be hosting a seminar on December 4, 2023 (9:30-10:30). Dr. Nicholas Rolle (ZAS) will be presenting on "When prosody cultivates segments: The case of tone-driven epenthesis". The seminar will be conducted on Zoom. The abstract for the talk and Dr. Rolle's bio are below.   Abstract: “This talk presents on an oft-neglected topic in phonology: the interaction between segments and prosody. This talk argues for a novel segment-prosody interaction ‘tone-driven epenthesis’, defined as the phonological insertion…