{"id":3319,"date":"2019-11-10T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/cle\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:27:44","slug":"november-12-culbertson-martin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/november-12-culbertson-martin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"November 12: Jennifer Culbertson and Alex Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adventures in Tharaka: A report on ongoing work from our ESRC project on word and morpheme order<\/h3>\n<div><i>Jennifer Culbertson and Alex Martin (CLE, University of Edinburgh)<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Tuesday, November 12<\/div>\n<div>11:30am &#8211; 12:30pm<br \/>\nRoom G32, 7 George Square<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will present recent results from two strands of recent work involving speakers of K\u00ee\u00eetharaka, a Bantu language spoken in Tharaka-Nithi county, Kenya. This language has two properties of interest for the study of typological universals. First, its\u00a0<b>noun phrase word order<\/b>\u00a0<b>is N-Dem-Num-Adj<\/b>, an order which in our terms is &#8220;non-homomorphic&#8221;. This means that the (linear) order fails to transparently reflect\u00a0what is typically hypothesised to be the underlying hierarchical structure in the NP, namely [Dem [Num [Adj [ N ] ] ] ]. This is unusual: the majority of the world&#8217;s languages have homomorphic NP orders. The main focus of the project is to test whether learners are biased in favour of homomorphic orders, therefore K\u00ee\u00eetharaka speakers are a prime test population. We will discuss the work we&#8217;ve done so far investigating homomorphism, and what we&#8217;ve just gotten start in Tharaka. The second properties of interest is that K\u00ee\u00eetharaka, like other Bantu languages, is\u00a0<b>predominantly prefixing<\/b>\u00a0(i.e. morphological affixes precede the stem). This is again in contrast to the majority of languages, which are primarily or exclusively suffixing. We report the results of an experiment testing whether K\u00ee\u00eetharaka speakers show the same suffixing preference that has been claimed on the basis of experimental data from English-speaking participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventures in Tharaka: A report on ongoing work from our ESRC project on word and morpheme order Jennifer Culbertson and Alex Martin (CLE, University of Edinburgh) Tuesday, November 12 11:30am &#8211; 12:30pm Room G32, 7 George Square &nbsp; In this talk I will present recent results from two strands of recent work involving speakers of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/november-12-culbertson-martin-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">November 12: Jennifer Culbertson and Alex Martin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}