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Papers by Dylan Herrick

Catalan Review, 2007

Catalan Review is the premier international scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of Catalan c... more Catalan Review is the premier international scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of Catalan culture. By Catalan culture is understood all manifestations of intellectual and artistic life produced in the Catalan language or in the geographical areas where Catalan is spoken. Catalan Review has been in publication since 1986. Esteu accedint a l'Arxiu Digital del Catalan Review A l' accedir i / o utilitzar aquest Arxiu Digital, vostè accepta i es compromet a complir els termes i condicions d'ús disponibles a http://www.nacscatalanstudies.org/catalan_review.html Catalan Review és la primera revista internacional dedicada a tots els aspectes de la cultura catalana. Per la cultura catalana s'entén totes les manifestacions de la vida intel lectual i artística produïda en llengua catalana o en les zones geogràfiques on es parla català. Catalan Review es publica des de 1986.

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2006

... Page 134. 124 DYLAN HERRICK [i] [] [a] [u] Bages Ciutadella Girona Palma Lloseta Figure 8: Vo... more ... Page 134. 124 DYLAN HERRICK [i] [] [a] [u] Bages Ciutadella Girona Palma Lloseta Figure 8: Vowel plots for a representative speaker of each of the five non-Barcelona dialects. ... Language and Society, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Eckert, Penelope. ...

International Journal of American Linguistics, Jul 1, 2011

Comanche has six vowel qualities /i, e, a, o, u, ɨ/ (plus a length distinction), and while the li... more Comanche has six vowel qualities /i, e, a, o, u, ɨ/ (plus a length distinction), and while the literature agrees almost completely on /i, e, a, o, u/, the last vowel /ɨ/ has been problematic—described as central in some papers, back in others, and compared to both round and spread vowels of English. This paper provides an acoustic description of the Comanche vowel system based on recordings of six native speakers which suggests that Comanche /ɨ/ is actually a central mid vowel—not a high vowel. The discrepancy with the literature is attributed to three factors: a lack of prior acoustic research on Comanche, perceptual interference from the English language, and the prevalence of /ɨ/ in the literature on Numic languages. If other related languages turn out to require the reclassification of /ɨ/ as a mid vowel, this could have implications for the reconstruction of the Uto-Aztecan vowel system.

Prince 1995) and provides an Optimality Theoretic (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993) account of the ... more Prince 1995) and provides an Optimality Theoretic (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993) account of the interaction of Cluster Simplification (CS) and Nasal Place Assimilation (NPA) in Catalan. The interaction of these two phenomena shown in (1) below results in a surface form which is both half-transparent and half-opaque. Accounting for such a form presents a challenge to any phonological theory, but the problem becomes especially interesting for a strictly parallel non-serial theory of phonology such as OT. The usual suspects of Cyclicity (Mascaró 1978) and Underspecification of Coronals (see Paradis and Prunet 1991 and the references therein) are either unavailable or extremely problematic in OT. Underspecification of Coronals leads to problems with respect to Richness of the Base (Prince and Smolensky 1993, Smolensky 1993), and Cyclicity, at least in the form described by Mascaró, cannot be adopted because it is a derivational process (not possible in OT by definition). One of the interesting aspects of this analysis is that it accounts for the data without appealing to Output-Output constraints (Benua 1995) or Sympathy (McCarthy 1997). Previous incarnations of this paper have found Sympathy to be inappropriate for the problem, 1 and even if this is shown to be a lack of imagination on my part, Sympathy has recently been criticized as a theory of opacity (Ito and Mester 1999). Additionally, if one were to adopt an Output-Output analysis, it would still have to be superimposed on top of an analysis such as the one presented here. 2 The core problem is summarized in (1) below. (1) Underlying Representation: /tin+k bint bota+s/ Attested Output: [tíN bím bót´s] English Gloss: 'I have twenty wineskins.' I would like to thank the following people for comments on earlier drafts of this paper;

Language Documentation & Conservation, Nov 1, 2017

Lexical tone is a linguistic feature which can present difficulties for second language learners ... more Lexical tone is a linguistic feature which can present difficulties for second language learners wanting to revitalize their heritage language. This is true not only from the standpoint of understanding and pronunciation, but also because tone is often under-documented and resources are limited or too technical to be useful to community members. Even with these challenges, carefully attending to the intricacies of a language's sound system allows learners to express themselves more "authentically" or "naturally," which can be important for confidence and acceptance as language users. Learners can be trained to distinguish tones by attending to acoustic or auditory cues related to tone (e.g., pitch contour). This paper describes multimedia resources designed to focus learner attention on perceiving tone-visual and audio accompaniments helping to increase the perception of tone in Cherokee, a severely endangered Native American language. We created resources for tone in the form of an electronic presentation containing explanations, example recordings, and intuitive images to provide audio and visual support for language learners. Presentation and format choices were collaboratively designed based on community requests, with an explicit attempt to de-jargonize materials and make them less technical and more accessible to community members. 1We sincerely thank the Cherokee speakers whose recordings were incorporated into this project: David Crawler, Durbin Feeling, and John Ross. Support was provided by the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages program (NSF-DEL; Cherokee Nation #1065160, University of Kansas #1065492, and University of Oklahoma #1065508). We thank Wyman Kirk, his NSU students, and Olivia Sammons for insightful suggestions during the development of resources. We also thank Catherine Ziegler, archivist at the Australian National University, for bibliographic assistance, as well as two anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions helped improve the paper. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cherokee Nation or any project participants or sponsors. Authors are equal co-authors.

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2002

Romance Phonology and Variation

0. Introduction The present work reconsiders several aspects of Spanish phonology in light of rec... more 0. Introduction The present work reconsiders several aspects of Spanish phonology in light of recent theoretical advances regarding the internal organization of the segment. In building on and synthesizing these insights, I propose a novel approach to the understanding of the ambivalent status of the feature [±continuant] of /l/, whose value is not universally accepted. Indeed, consider the following statement regarding continuancy from the foundational work in generative phonology, The Sound Pattern of English:

a) Ce Stress To test predictions made by theories of phonological vowel reduction, we require qua... more a) Ce Stress To test predictions made by theories of phonological vowel reduction, we require quantitative data to verify and make more precise impressionistic descriptions. Catalan, with phonological vowel reduction in several regional varieties, provides an ideal case study. This paper offers a quantitative description of the stressed and corresponding unstressed vowels of female speakers representing four distinct regional varieties of Catalan – that of Berguedà (representative of Central Catalan – the standard variety), Lleida (Western Catalan), Girona (a northern variety), and Palma (Balearic Catalan). Target vowels appeared in nonsense words which were uttered within a carrier phrase. The formant values for F1-F3 are reported here and compared to impressionistic descriptions. (c) Gi

As linguists, we value our jargon and training since they allow us to make precise, explicit char... more As linguists, we value our jargon and training since they allow us to make precise, explicit characterizations of linguistic phenomena. However, it is easy to recognize that this same jargon prevents non-linguists, community members and teachers in particular, from engaging with the literature in a useful way (see, e.g. Penfield & Tucker 2011). Based on workshops given at the Oklahoma Breath of Life (Author 2014) and the Annual Symposium on the American Indian (Author 2012), I discuss specific activities that can be used in the classroom/workshop to make linguistic knowledge from the highly technical sub-fields of phonetics and phonology more accessible to language teachers and language users. This paper consists of three parts. First, since highlighting L1-L2 similarities can have a positive effect on L2 comprehension and production (Ringbom 1987, 1992, 2007), I provide a list of IPA sounds that can be illustrated in terms of English phonemes and allophones (which could be extended...

Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017

Collaborators from Cherokee Nation, University of Oklahoma and University of Kansas worked togeth... more Collaborators from Cherokee Nation, University of Oklahoma and University of Kansas worked together on a Cherokee tone and vowel length project. Our work represents a unique contribution to language documentation, especially with respect to prosodic features of tonal languages. Additionally, it demonstrates the benefits of cooperative and interdisciplinary sharing of expertise and exemplifies how the varied skills of many people, including speakers, learners, theoretical and applied linguists, documentation specialists, second language specialists, teacher trainers, and technology specialists can complement each other. Overall goals of our project include the accurate description of both tone and vowel length. These features will eventually be represented and accessible to the community through an online dictionary. Training sessions were designed around these goals and an educational component of the project involves applying this knowledge to Cherokee second language classrooms as...

Language Documentation & Conservation, 2015

Cherokee, the sole member of the southern branch of Iroquoian languages, is a severely endangered... more Cherokee, the sole member of the southern branch of Iroquoian languages, is a severely endangered language. Unlike other members of the Iroquoian family, Cherokee has lexical tone. Community members are concerned about the potential loss of their language, and both speakers and teachers comment on the difficulty that language learners have with tone. This paper provides a brief overview of Cherokee tone and describes the techniques, activities, and results from a collaborative project aimed at building greater linguistic capacity within the Cherokee community. Team members from Cherokee Nation, the University of Kansas, and the University of Oklahoma led a series of workshops designed to train speakers, teachers, and advanced language learners to recognize, describe, and teach tone and how to use this information to document Cherokee. Following a participatory approach to endangered language revitalization and training native speakers and second language users in techniques of lingu...