UTokyo Linguistics Colloquium: 車田千種先生勉強会 + 内原洋人先生講演会

[Naonori Nagaya]

linguistics-jp メーリングリストのみなさま、


東京大学の長屋尚典です。下記の通りイベントを開催します。みなさまふるってご参加ください。


[1] 車田千種先生論文検討会: 2022年3月30日 (水)

下記の要領で、車田千種先生をお招きして、車田先生の論文のオンライン勉強会を開催します。車田先生に、論文の内容について30分程度ご発表いただいたのちに、論文についてみんなで議論します。どなたでも参加可能です。以下の論文を読んだ上でご参加ください。

Kurumada, Chigusa & Scott Grimm. 2019. Predictability of meaning in
grammatical encoding: Optional plural marking. Cognition 191. 103953.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.022.

Kurumada, Chigusa & T. Florian Jaeger. 2015. Communicative efficiency
in language production: Optional case-marking in Japanese. Journal of
Memory and Language 83. 152–178.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.03.003.

題目: Can markedness of meaning shape language learning and grammar?
講師: 車田千種先生 (ロチェスター大学)
日時: 2022年3月30日 (水) 10am to 12 noon (JST)
場所: Zoom meeting room

登録はこちらから: https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsfu2trD8qE93557QM1FudsFvMebX-S_Iq

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Can markedness of meaning shape language learning and grammar?
Chigusa Kurumada (University of Rochester)

The markedness principle plays a central role in linguistic theory:
marked meanings or grammatical categories (like plural) tend to
receive more linguistic encoding (e.g., morphological marking), while
unmarked categories (like singular) tend to receive less linguistic
encoding. What precisely makes a grammatical category or meaning
marked, however, remains unclear. One prominent proposal attributes
markedness to the inferrability of meanings: less predictable and thus
less inferrable meanings are more likely to receive extra linguistic
encoding than more predictable/inferable meanings. Support for this
hypothesis has come from cross-linguistic studies that have found that
corpus frequency (a coarse approximation of the average inferrability
of the meaning in context) tends to correlate with the amount of
linguistic encoding (e.g., Haspelmath & Karjus, 2017). These findings
are thought-provoking but purely correlational: they leave open
whether meaning inferrabiltiy has a causal role in linguistic
encoding. Recent advances in psycholinguistic experimentation now make
it possible to test this stronger hypothesis. I will discuss two
series of psycholinguistic experiments that have addressed this
question: a recall production study on optional accusative
case-marking in Japanese (Kurumada & Jaeger, 2015) and an artificial
language learning study on markedness reversal in number marking as
attested in languages such as Dagaare, Maltese, and Welsh (Kurumada &
Grimm, 2019).
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※ このイベントは LIXIL Ushioda East Asian Humanities Initiative による支援を受けています。


[2] 内原洋人先生講演会: 2022年4月2日 (土)

チェロキー語やサポテク語など北米先住民諸語の研究者として著名な内原洋人先生をお招きして、下記の要領で講演会を開催します。みなさまふるってご参加ください。講演は日本語です。

題目: Clusters vs units in Tlapanec
講師: 内原洋人先生
日時: 2022年4月2日 (土) 11:00〜13:00 (JST)
要旨: Since the pioneering work of Trubetzkoy (1939), there have been
various proposals as to how to distinguish consonant clusters and
units in individual languages. In this paper, I will look at the case
of Malinaltepec Tlapanec (Mè’phàà). I will look at general and
language-particular criteria to distinguish clusters and units in
these languages. I will show that in both cases the diagnostics do not
always converge: some sequences are judged to be clusters by certain
diagnostics but as units by others. Based on these observations, and
drawing insights from Canonical Typology (Brown et al. 2012), I argue
that the distinction between clusters and units is not dichotomous,
but multidimensional: individual cases may simultaneously resemble
clusters in some aspects but units in others, thus the typology of
behaviors is richer than a simple binary opposition.

登録: https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvc-utrjspHNWH7YgpZT5qz1gSmdCkhElf

本講演会は東京大学ヒューマニティーズセンター LIXIL Ushioda East Asian Humanities Initiative
公募研究（A）「体言化の言語類型論: 性、数、類別詞および定性を中心に」の助成を受けたものです。


長屋尚典

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Naonori Nagaya, PhD.
Department of Linguistics
The University of Tokyo
https://sites.google.com/site/naonorinagaya/