Speaker: Juliet Stanton (NYU)
Title: Phonetic rhythm in American English -ization
Time: Friday, February 10th, 3:30pm – 5pm
Abstract: It is commonly assumed that *Clash and *Lapse evaluate syllable-sized constituents: a sequence of two adjacent stressed syllables violates *Clash, while a sequence of two stressless syllables violates *Lapse (see e.g., Prince 1983, Gordon 2002 for *Clash; Nespor & Vogel 1989, Green & Kenstowicz 1995, Gordon 2002 for *Lapse). In this talk I argue, based on patterns of secondary stress in American English -ization, that there exist rhythmic constraints that are evaluated with respect to (normalized) duration. I present evidence consistent with this claim from corpus, judgment, and production studies.