<div dir="ltr">FOS,<div><br></div><div>Don't forget this afternoon's Linguistics Colloquium speaker, Dr Laurel MacKenzie, with what should be a fascinating talk.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you'll be able to come along. We'll be taking Dr MacKenzie to dinner after the talk, and you are welcome to join us.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Suzanne</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: smit2297 <<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>><br>Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:54 AM<br>Subject: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium - Laurel MacKenzie<br>To: <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p><span><span>This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee that our next colloquium is this Thursday, October 19th at 4:30pm, in B342 Wells Hall. Our speaker is Professor Laurel MacKenzie (New York University), whose talk is titled "Language
change over a very long lifespan" (abstract below). The rest of the colloquium series schedule can be found on our website. Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions or concerns. We hope to see you on Thursday! </span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>Sincerely, </span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Kaylin Smith and Scott Nelson</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee Co-Chairs <a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu" target="_blank">smit2297@msu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu" target="_blank">nelso672@msu.edu</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>Language change over a very long lifespan</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Laurel MacKenzie (New York University) </span></span></p>
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Recent work (Sankoff, 2004; Wagner, 2012; Sankoff and Blondeau, 2007) has demonstrated that linguistic change in later life, though not the norm, is possible. But there is still much we don't know about this phenomenon: What kind of change in later life is
possible? What causes linguistic change in later life to take place? And by what grammatical mechanism does change proceed?<br>
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I address these questions through what is to my knowledge the most high-definition longitudinal study of a single speaker to date. I present data from a corpus of nature documentary narrations by Sir David Attenborough from 16 time points across a 60-year period
(1956–2015). I use these recordings to carry out a study of his pronunciation of /r/, investigating the extent to which he may have participated in a community change from articulating this segment as a tap to articulating it as a retroflex approximant (Wells,
1997; Hughes et al., 2012; Cruttenden, 2014; Fabricius, 2017). I use this data to answer the following questions:</div>
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1. Is Attenborough's variation between tap and approximant stable over time? If not, does he show evidence of participating in the community change? Is this via a linear trajectory, or does it show a more complicated diachronic pattern (Rickford & Price, 2013; Stefánsdóttir
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2. Given that tapped-r may occur in two phonological environments -- word-internally (e.g. <i>ve<b><u>r</u></b>y</i>) and in hiatus position (e.g. <i>fa<b><u>r</u></b> away) </i>-- do we find comparable diachronic trajectories for each environment?</div>
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3. Does any attested variation/change show effects of word frequency, as predicted by exemplar-based models of phonology (Pierrehumbert, 2001; Nycz, 2013)?</div>
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The results have implications for the nature and malleability of mental representations, and the role of individuals in language changes in progress.</div>
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