Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 11th at 10am in room 117. Natalia will be presenting the paper Kramer and Zec 2020 “Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis.” The abstract is the following:
Weinvestigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Our findings challenge the common classification of nasals as intermediate between obstruents and liquids on the sonority hierarchy. Instead, we propose that there are two types of nasal consonants, one group with lower sonority than liquids and one with higher sonority. We propose that these two types of nasals differ in the presence or absence of a value for the feature [±continuant].
There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link:
https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1
Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214
Passcode: 674595