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This talk introduces a unified featural model for the representation of tone and intonation. On the one hand, the model successfully addresses outstanding theoretical issues in the representation of tone, including but not limited to, capturing 5-tone systems, and addressing the under-generation/over-generation issues of existing binary feature systems. On the other hand, the model straightforwardly […]

Alexander Graham Bell is widely celebrated for his invention of the telephone, but his involvement in the American Eugenics movement remains a lesser-known aspect of his legacy. Yet, Bell is vilified in the signing Deaf community for his support for oralism and sought to dissuade Deaf people from marrying each other. This presentation explores the […]

Research over the last few decades has consistently questioned the sufficiency of abstract/discrete phonological representations based on putative misalignments between predictions from such representations and observed experimental results. Here, I’ll first suggest that many of the arguments ride on misunderstandings of the original claims from generative phonology, and that the typical evidence furnished is consistent […]