e-Σεμινάρια Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας ΕΚΠΑ - Μαίρη Μπαλτατζάνη (University of Oxford)

Τετάρτη 06/04/2022, 18:30, διαδικτυακά

Ο Τομέας Γλωσσολογίας σας προσκαλεί στην ομιλία της Μαίρη Μπαλτατζάνη (University of Oxford) με τίτλο "Diachrony, intonation and language contact in Greek". Η ομιλία θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 6 Απριλίου 2022 στις 18.30, στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο:

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Η ομιλία πραγματοποιείται στα πλαίσια των e-σεμιναρίων που διοργανώνονται από τον Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας με τη συνδρομή του Εργαστηρίου Φωνητικής και Υπολογιστικής Γλωσσολογίας. Το πρόγραμμα όλων των ομιλιών (Μάρτιος – Μάιος 2022) βρίσκεται στον σύνδεσμο http://www.phil.uoa.gr/tomeis/tomeas-glwssologias/seminaria.html

Περίληψη

Contact-induced linguistic influences are determined by the history of social relations among populations, including economic, political and demographic factors. Long term interactions between populations create multi-ethnic and multilingual communities, which in turn lead to the emergence of contact varieties (Sankoff, 2001). It is well known that cross-linguistic contact may impact all levels or aspects of language, with its effects on lexicon and morphology being well documented (see e.g., Thomason, 2001; Clyne, 2003). However, investigation of the prosodic aspects of language contact is a generally understudied area, even though insights from such research are urgently required to deepen our understanding of resultant language change.

Recently interest on prosodic variation in synchronically bilingual speakers has increased, but the effects of language contact on the diachronic development of intonation are less well studied. Some evidence is emerging that prosodic characteristics may persist in a recipient language for decades or even centuries after the cessation of contact. This talk will concentrate on some tunes in the intonation of Greek regional varieties whose speakers have a history of cohabitation with speakers of Venetian Italian or Turkish. The shape of the f0 contours in the regional varieties of Greek are compared to the corresponding tunes in both Standard (Athenian) Greek and their respective donor languages. Standard Autosegmental–Metrical analysis is combined with statistical modelling of f0 curves using Functional Data Analysis. The robustness of contact effects over time will be traced through comparisons of speech corpora spanning a century.

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