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Intonation in Hong Kong English and Guangzhou Cantonese-Accented English: a Phonetic Comparison
ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 724-738, September 2020 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1105.07 Intonation in Hong Kong English and Guangzhou Cantonese-accented English: A Phonetic Comparison Yunyun Ran School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, 333 Long Teng Road, Shanghai 201620, China Jeroen van de Weijer School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nan Hai Avenue, Shenzhen 518060, China Marjoleine Sloos Fryske Akademy (KNAW), Doelestrjitte 8, 8911 DX Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Abstract—Hong Kong English is to a certain extent a standardized English variety spoken in a bilingual (English-Cantonese) context. In this article we compare this (native) variety with English as a foreign language spoken by other Cantonese speakers, viz. learners of English in Guangzhou (mainland China). We examine whether the notion of standardization is relevant for intonation in this case and thus whether Hong Kong English is different from Cantonese English in a wider perspective, or whether it is justified to treat Hong Kong English and Cantonese English as the same variety (as far as intonation is concerned). We present a comparison between intonational contours of different sentence types in the two varieties, and show that they are very similar. This shows that, in this respect, a learned foreign-language variety can resemble a native variety to a great extent. Index Terms—Hong Kong English, Cantonese-accented English, intonation I. INTRODUCTION Cantonese English may either refer to Hong Kong English (HKE), or to a broader variety of English spoken in the Cantonese-speaking area, including Guangzhou (Wong et al. -
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19º Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia 9 a 12 de julho de 2019 UFSC - Florianópolis, SC Grupo de Trabalho 34: Violência, corpo e sexualidade: estudos feministas de gênero e/ou raça Corpos que ameaçam: raça, gênero e classe no discurso populista da Liga Norte sobre imigração na Itália Fernanda Di Flora Garcia Docente do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) João Carlos Soares Zuin Docente do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual Julio de Mesquita Filho e da Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (UNESP/Araraquara) Introdução Nem toda noite termina na aurora. Stanislaw Jeryz Lec O objetivo deste artigo é compreender e analisar o sentido e o significado das manifestações políticas vexatórias, sexistas e racistas efetuadas por lideranças do partido político italiano Liga1contra mulheres imigrantes de origem árabe e africana e mulheres italianas envolvidas diretamente em ações políticas de acolhimento dos imigrantes e defesa da universalização dos direitos sociais e econômicos e dos direitos humanos fundamentais, especialmente Cécile Kyenge2 e Laura Boldrini3. Pretendemos evidenciar como as palavras “feitas para ferir” (DE MAURO, 2017), de caráter violento, com grande força performativa, constituem hoje parte significativa de continuidade de uma política estatal que exclui todos aqueles considerados como não- pessoas. As sucessivas manifestações racistas e sexistas efetuadas por membros do partido que hoje representa a principal força da nova direita e do populismo na Itália – tais como -
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LAW 2017/06 Department of Law Constitutional identity in Italy: European integration as the fulfilment of the Constitution Federico Fabbrini and Oreste Pollicino European University Institute Department of Law CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY IN ITALY: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AS THE FULFILMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION Federico Fabbrini, Oreste Pollicino EUI Working Paper LAW 2017/06 This text may be downloaded for personal research purposes only. Any additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copy or electronically, requires the consent of the authors. If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the authors, the title, the working paper or other series, the year, and the publisher. ISSN 1725-6739 © Federico Fabbrini, Oreste Pollicino 2017 Printed in Italy European University Institute Badia Fiesolana I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy www.eui.eu cadmus.eui.eu Abstract The paper examines the notion of constitutional identity in Italy, with the aim to question whether the highest constitutional authorities of the Italian state have identified a core or fundamental elements of the Constitution which define its individuality. By analyzing the words and deeds of the President of the Republic and the case law of the Constitutional Court the paper claims that these two supreme constitutional authorities always refused to identify a set of constitutional values which cannot be touched by the European Union (EU). On the contrary, the paper suggests that both the President of the Republic and the Constitutional Court have endeavoured to emphasize the axiological overlap between the Italian Constitution and the project of European integration, considering Italy’s membership to the EU as the best way to fulfil the Constitution’s mandate. -
Stem Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions in Ngbaka
Stem Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions in Ngbaka Jeroen van de Weijer 1. Introduction Ngbaka is one of the languages spoken in the Central African Republic.1 It is part of the Adamawa Ubanguian branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The root cooccurrence restrictions in this language have attracted considerable attention since they were first reported by Thomas (1963) (see Wescott 1965; Chomsky and Halle 1968: 387; Clements 1982; Itô 1984; Churma 1984; Herbert 1986: 113-16; Mester 1986: 32-45; Sagey 1986: 260-66; Mester 1988; Lombardi 1990: 376 (fn. 2), among others). In Ngbaka there are vowel cooccurrence restrictions (not discussed here) and restrictions on the occurrence of consonants with the same point of articulation. The latter are stated below (from Wescott 1965, who summarises Thomas 1963: 63ff.): (1) (...) if a disyllabic word contains a voiceless consonant, it does not also contain the voiced counterpart of that consonant (that is, /p/ excludes /b/, /s/ excludes /z/, etc.). Similarly, if a disyllabic word contains a voiced obstruent, it does not also contain the prenasalized counterpart of that obstruent (that is, /b/ excludes /mb/, /z/ excludes /nz/, etc.); if such a word contains a prenasalized obstruent, it does not also contain the corresponding nasal (that is, /mb/ excludes /m/, /nz/ excludes /n/, etc.). (Wescott 1965: 346) The consonant inventory of Ngbaka is given below (see Thomas 1963: 55): Thanks to Colin Ewen, Harry van der Hulst, Grazyna Rowicka and an anonymous reviewer for useful discussion. All errors are my own. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, 259–266. DOI 10.1075/avt.11.25wei ISSN 0929–7332 / E-ISSN 1569–9919 © Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap 260 JEROEN VAN DE WEIJER (2) vcl obs p f t s k kp vcd obs b v d z g gb glottalised 'b prenasal mb nd nz ng ngb nasal m n p glide j w liquid 1 glottal stop ? glottal fricative h Ngbaka has seven oral and three nasal vowels (/ieeaoouâê ô/) and three tones (high, low, and mid - the latter of which is not marked in this paper). -
PRESS RELEASE 9 April Sees the Birth of Eutopia Ideas for Europe
PRESS RELEASE 9 April sees the birth of Eutopia Ideas for Europe Magazine The first webzine about Europe. In European European political integration has reached a standstill. Trying to revive it without creating a European public opinion is unthinkable. We need to discuss what kind of Europe we want to build and do it in Europe, overcoming the linguistic and cultural barriers between countries. Eutopia, the first European webzine to address crucial issues for our future as Europeans, in a rigorous, structured but accessible way, has been created for this purpose. With this in mind, we have brought together, for a unique collaboration, four prestigious European publishers: S.Fischer Verlag in Germany, Editorial Debate in Spain, Éditions du Seuil in France and Editori Laterza in Italy. They will work with other partners including Telecom Italia and the European Institute - London School of Economics as the Academic Partner. The magazine's director is Eric Joszef, Italian correspondent of the French newspaper Libération. Authors including Zygmunt Bauman, Luciano Canfora, Paul Collier, to name a few, will express their thoughts, interpreting current issues with a continental perspective, because a united Europe needs a public debate that goes beyond national borders. We're convinced that a European culture and approach are missing when it comes to dealing with the big issues of our time. The magazine will be presented at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 April at the offices of the publisher Laterza (Via di Villa Sacchetti 17, Rome). The presentation will be attended by Giuseppe Laterza, Marcella Logli, Eric Joszef, Lucio Caracciolo as well as others including Giuliano Amato, Tullio De Mauro, Andrea Giardina, Stefano Rodotà. -
Euralex Newsletter SUMMER 2000
SUMMER 2000 EURALEX NEWSLETTER Editors: Carla Marello and Rosamund Moon. Address for correspondence and contributions: Carla Marello, Corso Unione Sovietica 115, I-10134 Torino, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] Downloaded from The EURALEX Newsletter This quarterly Newsletter is intended to include not only official announcements ijl.oxfordjournals.org but also news about EURALEX members, their publications, projects, and (it is hoped) their opinions, and news about other lexicographical organizations. Please try to support this by sending newsletter contributions to Carla Marello at the above address, or e-mailing the editors. The deadlines for winter (December), spring (March), summer (June), and autumn (September) issues are respectively 15 September, 15 December, 15 March, and 15 June annually. at Aston University on November 28, 2010 The EURALEX Web Site The URL of the EURALEX web site is http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex. EURALEX Congress 2000, Stuttgart The Ninth EURALEX Congress will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from Tuesday 8 August to Saturday 12 August. There will be a rich programme of plenary lectures, discussions, pre-congress tutorials, papers on lexicographical and related topics, and social events. Full information about registration and accommodation is available on the EURALEX web site (http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex). 2000 Laurence Urdang Award Applications are invited for the Laurence Urdang Award (formerly the Verbatim Award), which is funded by Laurence Urdang and administered by EURALEX. Its purpose is to support unpaid lexicographical work of any type, including study. The amount available is GBP £1500 sterling, and an individual award may vary in size from GBP £250 to the full amount. -
Some /L/S Are Darker Than Others: Accounting for Variation in English /L/ with Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 20 Issue 2 Selected Papers from NWAV 42 Article 21 10-2014 Some /l/s are darker than others: Accounting for variation in English /l/ with ultrasound tongue imaging Danielle Turton Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl Recommended Citation Turton, Danielle (2014) "Some /l/s are darker than others: Accounting for variation in English /l/ with ultrasound tongue imaging," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20 : Iss. 2 , Article 21. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol20/iss2/21 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol20/iss2/21 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Some /l/s are darker than others: Accounting for variation in English /l/ with ultrasound tongue imaging Abstract The phenomenon of /l/-darkening has been a subject of linguistic interest due to the remarkable amount of contextual variation it displays. Although it is generally stated that the light variant occurs in onsets (e.g. leap) and the dark variant in codas (e.g. peel), many studies report variation in different morphosyntactic environments. Beyond this variation in morphosyntactic conditioning, different dialects of English have been reported as showing highly variable distributions. These descriptions include a claimed lack of dis- tinction in the North of England, a three-way distinction between light, dark and vocalised /l/ in the South-East, and a gradient continuum of darkness in American English. This paper presents ultrasound tongue imaging data collected to test dialectal and contextual descriptions of /l/ in English, providing hitherto absent instrumental evidence for different distributions. -
The Past Quarter-Century in Linguistic Historiography W
THE PAST QUARTER-CENTURY IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY W. Keith Percival University of Kansas Despite the title of this paper, I shall not attempt to present a straightforward chronicle of the past twenty-five years of scholarship in the historiography of linguistics, a topic too vast to cover in the space at my disposal. In any case, I can refer the interested reader to a competent survey and evaluation of the secondary literature in a recent article by Ayres-Bennett (1987). What I propose to do here instead is to raise the question of how the tempo of research on the history of linguistics started to speed up in the 1960s, and why more and more scholars began to devote their entire careers to it. I shall also examine some of the issues discussed in that decade because in my judgment they are among the perennial problems in linguistic historiography and in intellectual historiography in general. 1 I do not believe I need to demonstrate my initial premise, namely that there has been an explosive growth in the field of linguistic historiography in the past quarter-century. This increase of interest was in fact so spectacular that it was already being commented on by the second half of the 1960s (see, for example, Malkiel & Langdon 1969:530-531). In how many different ways, one may ask, has this explosion of interest in the history of linguistics manifested itselfl Most fundamentally there were institutional developments: the convening of conferences and symposia, the founding of societies which hold regular meetings (there is now, for example, an international society specifically devoted the history of linguistics, which meets every three years), and the founding of special journals, monographic series, and newsletters (the most important journal in the field is undoubtedly Historiomphja Lingujstica, edited by E. -
Romano Prodi, the New President of the European
No. 1 July 1999 Dear Readers, ROMANO PRODI, THE NEW «Notizie Italiane» is directed at Public Institutions and Agencies, private PRESIDENT OF THE Companies and businessmen, Israeli media, Italian nationals residing in this unique and interesting Country, EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and potentially any person who is interested - for professional or cultural omano Prodi, born in 1939, has been of industrial enterprises. reasons - in what happens in Italy. R teaching for 25 years at Bologna In 1995 he devotes It would, of course, be impossible to University, Department of Political Sciences. himself to active politics, give a fully comprehensive view of the His academic curriculum starts at the Catholic leading the new coalition developments which take place in Italy University of Milan (degree in Jurisprudence), list “Ulivo”. Following with a thesis on political economy with Prof. the May 1996 elections, in the cultural and economic fields, Siro Lombardini. Postgraduate studies are he is appointed Prime not to speak of the political life of the completed at the London School of Economics. Minister, a responsibility Country and its social trends, the artistic His relationship with the international academic he holds until October (continued on page 3) creations or the scientific discoveries. world starts with a position of Visiting Professor The idea - that I had since I came to at Harvard. Office last year - is just to create a His first scientific publications, in the 60s, more direct channel of communication follow two main subjects: the problems of with the bodies I mentioned above, competition (“Competition and Market Power”, 1969) and the Paths of Development of Small and to contribute to the general Edited by: and Medium Size Enterprises. -
78. 78. Nasal Harmony Nasal Harmony
Bibliographic Details The Blackwell Companion to Phonology Edited by: Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice eISBN: 9781405184236 Print publication date: 2011 78. Nasal Harmony RACHEL WWALKER Subject Theoretical Linguistics » Phonology DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184236.2011.00080.x Sections 1 Nasal vowel–consonant harmony with opaque segments 2 Nasal vowel–consonant harmony with transparent segments 3 Nasal consonant harmony 4 Directionality 5 Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Notes REFERENCES Nasal harmony refers to phonological patterns where nasalization is transmitted in long-distance fashion. The long-distance nature of nasal harmony can be met by the transmission of nasalization either to a series of segments or to a non-adjacent segment. Nasal harmony usually occurs within words or a smaller domain, either morphologically or prosodically defined. This chapter introduces the chief characteristics of nasal harmony patterns with exemplification, and highlights related theoretical themes. It focuses primarily on the different roles that segments can play in nasal harmony, and the typological properties to which they give rise. The following terminological conventions will be assumed. A trigger is a segment that initiates nasal harmony. A target is a segment that undergoes harmony. An opaque segment or blocker halts nasal harmony. A transparent segment is one that does not display nasalization within a span of nasal harmony, but does not halt harmony from transmitting beyond it. Three broad categories of nasal harmony are considered in this chapter. They are (i) nasal vowel–consonant harmony with opaque segments, (ii) nasal vowel– consonant harmony with transparent segments, and (iii) nasal consonant harmony. Each of these groups of systems show characteristic hallmarks. -
Hurtlex: a Multilingual Lexicon of Words to Hurt
Hurtlex: A Multilingual Lexicon of Words to Hurt Elisa Bassignana and Valerio Basile and Viviana Patti Dipartimento di Informatica University of Turin fbasile,[email protected] [email protected] Abstract della risorsa nell’ambito dello sviluppo di un sistema Automatic Misogyny Identifi- English. We describe the creation of cation in tweet in spagnolo ed inglese. HurtLex, a multilingual lexicon of hate words. The starting point is the Ital- 1 Introduction ian hate lexicon developed by the linguist Communication between people is rapidly chang- Tullio De Mauro, organized in 17 cat- ing, in particular due to the exponential growth egories. It has been expanded through of the use of social media. As a privileged place the link to available synset-based com- for expressing opinions and feelings, social me- putational lexical resources such as Mul- dia are also used to convey expressions of hostil- tiWordNet and BabelNet, and evolved ity and hate speech, mirroring social and politi- in a multi-lingual perspective by semi- cal tensions. Social media enable a wide and viral automatic translation and expert annota- dissemination of hate messages. The extreme ex- tion. A twofold evaluation of HurtLex pressions of verbal violence and their proliferation as a resource for hate speech detection in the network are progressively being configured in social media is provided: a qualita- as unavoidable emergencies. Therefore, the devel- tive evaluation against an Italian anno- opment of new linguistic resources and computa- tated Twitter corpus of hate against immi- tional techniques for the analysis of large amounts grants, and an extrinsic evaluation in the of data becomes increasingly important, with par- context of the AMI@Ibereval2018 shared ticular emphasis on the identification of hate in task, where the resource was exploited for language (Schmidt and Wiegand, 2017; Waseem extracting domain-specific lexicon-based and Hovy, 2016; Davidson et al., 2017). -
Marginal Phonology: Phonotactics on the Edge1
Marginal phonology: Phonotactics on the edge1 ELLEN BROSELOW Abstract As has long been recognized, the isomorphism between word edges and word- internal syllable edges is far from perfect. This paper examines the fit between an Optimality-Theoretic account of edge/interior asymmetries, using position- specific faithfulness constraints to protect edges or interiors of morphological constituents, and the actual typology of attested edge/interior asymmetries. A detailed analysis of the Indonesian language Balantak, in which the first mem- ber of a CC cluster is severely restricted unless that first C is root-final, is com- patible with the positional faithfulness account, but is problematic for accounts that explain greater freedom at edges solely in terms of licensing by higher prosodic structure or by phonetic context. I argue that a theory of edge/interior asymmetries must incorporate two possible functions of phonotactic restric- tions: to facilitate recovery of segmental contrasts, and to facilitate the parsing of strings into morphemes. 1. Introduction: Edge-interior asymmetries One argument for including the syllable in phonological representations ap- peals to parallels between medial phonotactics and the phonotactics of word 1. This work was supported by in part by NSF grant SBR-9729108 to the author and Daniel Finer and by funding from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelik Onderzoek NWO. Portions of this paper were presented at the 8th Manchester Phonology Meeting, UK, May 2000, the 8th Biennial Workshop on Phonology, University of Utrecht, June 2000; 6th Annual SWOT (South Western Optimality Theory) Conference, USL Los Angeles, April 2001; and at SUNY Stony Brook, March 2001. I am grateful to those audiences, particularly Yoonjung Kang and Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, and to an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments and suggestions.