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Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Event Photos by Jessica Guild: Samuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA ASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. Blending vocals, oud, violin, nay, and plenty of percussion, with songs in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Ladino, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural […]
CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
There are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes that condition differential phonotactics or phonological behaviors: for example, a lexical item is either a noun or a verb, or of one gender class or […]