Program
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Friday, March 9th | ||
| 1:00–2:00 | Registration | |
Diachrony I | ||
| 2:00–2:20 | Paul Arsenault | An evolutionary perspective on retroflex phonotactics |
| 2:20–2:40 | Lev Blumenfeld | Two theories of one sound change: Slavic postvelar fronting |
| 2:40–3:00 | Mark Hale & Madelyn Kissock | Markedness and epenthesis: A reply to de Lacy and Kingston |
| 3:00–3:15 | Discussion | |
| 3:15–3:30 | Break | |
Diachrony II | ||
| 3:30–3:50 | Marc Brunelle, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, & Gwendolyn Hyslop | Consonantal tone and the development of autosegmentality |
| 3:50–4:10 | Christopher Harvey | Contrastive shift in Ob-Ugric vowel systems |
| 4:10–4:30 | Will Oxford | On the contrastive status of vowel length |
| 4:30–4:45 | Discussion | |
| 4:45–5:00 | Break | |
| 5:00–5:30 | Elan Dresher | Issues in the theory of contrast |
| 6:00– | Reception in the Linguistics Department | |
Saturday, March 10th | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Breakfast & Registration | |
Adaptation of Sounds | ||
| 9:00–9:20 | Milica Radišić | Asymmetrical adaptations of sounds in loanwords |
| 9:20–9:40 | Yoonjung Kang | Korean tonogenesis, /s/, and the Contrastivist Hypothesis |
| 9:40–10:00 | Alexei Kochetov & Laura Spinu | Perceptual categorization as a source of palatalization sound changes: Experimental evidence from Romanian |
| 10:00–10:15 | Discussion | |
| 10:15–10:30 | Break | |
Acquisition and Learning | ||
| 10:30–10:50 | Chen Qu | Velar fronting and dorsal harmony in child language |
| 10:50–11:10 | Yu-Leng Lin | Testing analytic bias by using a concept formation paradigm in nasal harmony |
| 11:10–11:30 | Laura Spinu, Yulia Kondratenko, & Juliana Cardona-Tellez | Being "better" with accents: Evidence from bilinguals |
| 11:30–11:45 | Discussion | |
| 11:45–1:30 | Lunch | |
Hiatus and Harmony | ||
| 1:30–1:50 | John T. Jensen & Margaret Stong-Jensen | Repairing hiatus in Sanskrit |
| 1:50–2:10 | Marie-Hélène Côté | Liaison in the PFC Corpus: Description and conceptual implications |
| 2:10–2:30 | Will Dalton | Gradient vowel harmony in Canadian French |
| 2:30–2:50 | Anne St-Amand | Hiatus resolution in Québécois French |
| 2:50–3:05 | Discussion | |
| 3:05–3:20 | Break | |
Synchronic Phonology | ||
| 3:20–3:40 | James Byrnes | Constraints, contrast, and consonants: The case of consonant harmony blocking in Berber languages |
| 3:40–4:00 | Sara Mackenzie | Contrastive specifications in stratal OT |
| 4:00–4:20 | Christopher Spahr | Floating contrastive features in Estonian: Underspecification and "palatalization" |
| 4:20–4:35 | Discussion | |
| 4:35–4:50 | Break | |
Prosodic Structure | ||
| 4:50–5:10 | Ross Krekoski | On utterances in Japanese: Toward a context-sensitive framework of prosodic structure |
| 5:10–5:30 | Tae-Jin Yoon & Yoonjung Kang | Acoustic characteristics of declarative sentence ending 'da' in Korean |
| 5:30–5:50 | Glyne Piggott | What's a prosodic word? |
| 5:50–6:05 | Discussion | |
| 7:30– | Party with supper | |
Sunday, March 11th | ||
| 9:45–10:15 | Breakfast | |
Synchronic Alternations and Contrastive Features | ||
| 10:15–10:35 | Daniel Currie Hall | Where do redundant features come in? |
| 10:35–10:55 | Alexandra Motut | Contrastive features and delinking in Oowekyala |
| 10:55–11:15 | Reza Falahati | An ultrasound study of coronal stop deletion in Persian |
| 11:15–11:30 | Discussion | |
| 11:30–11:45 | Break | |
L2 and Loanword Adaptation | ||
| 11:45–12:05 | Sorina Dragusanu | Vowels in contact: A case study in Romanian |
| 12:05–12:25 | Tokiko Okuma | Second language acquisition of Japanese compound accents by native English speakers |
| 12:25–12:45 | Daniel Paul Stoltzfus | Predictions on foreign segment importation |
| 12:45–1:00 | Discussion | |
| 1:00– | Pizza lunch | |