Dr Tamara Rathcke, Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving her talk entitled ‘Autosegmental-Metrical Approaches to Modelling Russian Intonation: Evidence and Issues’ at Humboldt University of Berlin on Wednesday, 6 June 2018.

Autosegmental phonology is an approach to phonology that allows the processing of sounds in language, such as tone and vowel harmony, to be independent of and extend beyond individual consonants and vowels.

Tamara will give an overview of the current autosegmental-metrical approaches to studying the intonation in the speaking of Russian, and present some original data that challenges some of the previous assumptions, and helps to advance our understanding of the structure of tonal representations (both in Russian and other languages).

The talk will be part of the lecture series organised by the Corpus Linguistics and Morphology research centre.

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