Speaker: Aoju Chen (UU) Title: The categoricality of intonational events Date/time: Thursday 18 June, 15:00-16:00 Place: Drift 6, room 0.07 Abstract When listening to speech, we readily distinguish sounds such as /b/ and /p/, and speakers of tone languages categorise lexical tones. But what about intonation in non-tone languages, e.g., the rises and falls in…

Tomorrow ​(12th November) at 12-1pm (UK time), Kim A. Groothuis (Universiteit Gent) will be giving a talk entitled, Neapolitan chillo at the syntax-discourse-prosody interface.     Abstract: Neapolitan, like other Campanian varieties, features a construction in which the distal demonstrative (chillo, chella, chello ‘that.M/F/N.SG’ < Lat. ECCU + ILLU(M)) is used as an apparent expletive subject, occurring with impersonal predicates, as in (1). Moreover, chillo…