34.2939, Calls: SLE Workshop on Marginal Phonemes

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Subject: 34.2939, Calls: SLE Workshop on Marginal Phonemes

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Date: 09-Oct-2023
From: László Fejes [fejes.laszlo at nytud.hun-ren.hu]
Subject: SLE Workshop on Marginal Phonemes


Full Title: SLE workshop on marginal phonemes
Short Title: SLE WS MPh

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: László Fejes
Meeting Email: fejes.laszlo at nytud.hun-ren.hu

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

The 57th Annual Meeting  of the Societas Linguistica Europaea will be
held 21–24 August 2024 in Helsinki, and it gives a great opportunity
for bringing together linguists engaged in marginal phonemes occurring
or being contrastive only in some subsets of the lexicon (foreign
words, onomatopoeia) or in a restricted phonological or morphological
context.

Call for Papers:

Finnish is rich in marginal phonemes.
Traditionally, there were no voiced obstruents in Finnish, and they do
not occur in native Finnish words. The only exception is /d/, which
occurs word internally in Standard Finnish (and corresponds to various
phonemes or nothing in the dialects). Standard Finnish /d/ occurs only
in the weak grade of morphemes with consonant gradation (CG, e.g.
/kɑtu/ ‘street.NOM.SG’ : /kɑdu-n/ ‘street-GEN.SG’). Its current
standard pronunciation as a plosive is due to the pronunciation of the
elite with a Swedish language background.
Additionally, /d/, similarly to /b/ and /ɡ/, also occurs in non-native
words, even in word-initial position. Although alveolar consonants (in
contrast to almost all other consonants) are allowed word-finally, /d/
never occurs there. In contrast to /d/, /b/ and /ɡ/ also occurs in
geminates, and also participate in CG (/mobɑ-tɑʔ/ ‘mob-INF’ :
/mobːɑː-n/ ‘mob-PRS.1SG’). However, Finnish speakers tend to
substitute [b] and [ɡ] with [p] and [k], respectively.
Similarly to /d/, /ŋ/ also occurs only word-internally due to CG. It
also occurs as an allophone of /n/ before /k/, and the cluster /nk/
alternates with /ŋː/ in CG: /helsinki/ [helsiŋki] ‘Helsinki.NOM.SG’ :
/helsiŋːi-n/ ‘Helsinki-GEN.SG’. Short [ŋ] occurs only as the first
element of clusters even in recent loanwords (e.g. /piŋʋini/
‘penguin’).
The voiceless fricative /f/ also only occurs in non-native words and
also word-initially (/filmi/ ‘film, movie’, /flikːɑ/ ‘girl’). It also
occurs as a geminate, but does not participate in alternations due to
CG: /lefːɑ/ ‘movie.NOM.SG’ /lefːɑ-n/ (*/lefɑ-n/) ‘movie-GEN.SG’. Some
speakers tend to substitute word-initial /f/s  with /v/ (/fiksu/ ~
/viksu/ ‘clever’) or /p/ (/plikːɑ/ ‘girl’) or to delete it from
clusters  (/likːɑ/ ‘girl’). Intervocalic /f/ is substituted by the
cluster /hʋ/ is earlier loanwords (/kɑhʋi/ ‘coffee’), or by dialect
speakers even in more recent loans (/ohʋi/ ‘Off! (brand)’).
Postalveolar sibilants also occur only in foreign words, and many
times they are pronounced as alveolars: /ʃɑkːi/ ~ /sɑkːi/ ‘chess’ (the
latter form also means ‘crowd, gang’). Voiced /ʒ/ is even more rare,
and even in foreign words it usually occurs in a cluster with /d/
(/dʒonkːi/ ‘junk’, /mɑhɑrɑdʒɑ/ ‘maharaja’), and only occasionally as a
single consonant (/ʒiguli/ ‘Zhiguli’) – and it can be both devoiced
and pronounced as an alveolar.
Finnish also has a marginal phoneme /ʔ/, which only occurs
morpheme-finally, is the only consonant which, in addition to the
alveolar ones, occurs also word-finally. Even there it is usually
assimilated by the following consonant,  even across word boundaries,
resulting in a geminate. Many morphophonological alternations can be
explained purely as phonological alternations if we consider the
presence of /ʔ/.
Nonetheless, the phonemic status of some of these elements are ignored
or denied by most of the descriptions of Finnish. Despite the widely
known and often cited principle, “once a phoneme – always a phoneme”,
descriptions of various languages often ignore or deny the phonemic
status of units which are contrastive only in a restricted set of
environments.
As the 57th Annual Meeting  of the Societas Linguistica Europaea will
be held 21–24 August 2024 in Helsinki, it gives a great opportunity
for bringing together linguists engaged in marginal phonemes. We
welcome any abstracts (ca. 300 words) concerning marginal morphemes,
occurring or being contrastive only in some subsets of the lexicon
(foreign words, onomatopoeia) or in a restricted phonological or
morphological context. We invite papers both with descriptive or
theoretical orientation, approaching the topic either from a
synchronic, historical, dialectological, psycho- or sociolinguistic
perspective.
The abstracts should be sent to the organisers Jack Rueter
(jack.rueter at helsinki.fi) and László Fejes
(fejes.laszlo at nytud.hun-ren.hu).



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