Programme--13 mfm

The Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting

Programme

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Thursday 26th May 2005

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
1.00 - 1.35	German Glide Formation as the conflict between markedness and faithfulness T.A. Hall, Indiana University	Nothing is a phonological fact Curt Rice, CASTL, University of Tromsø
1.35 - 2.10	Vowel length in Scottish English: new data from the alignment of accent peaks Bob Ladd, Edinburgh University	A perceptual redefinition of I and U Gyula Zsigri, University of Szeged
2.10 - 2.45	Danish stød and Eastern Norwegian pitch accent: the myth of lexical tones Bruce Morén, CASTL, University of Tromsø	Prosodically conditioned fortition Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University
2.45- 3.20	The tone-bearing unit in Limburgian Dutch Jörg Peters, Radboud University Nijmegen	Four classes in English lexicon: solutions to old problems and a new prediction by Partial Ordering Theory Hideki Zamma, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
4.00 - 4.35	A dependency analysis of voicing in English Bert Botma, University of Leiden & Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam	Whose phonological fact? Prosodic phrasing in multi-action turns. Richard Ogden & Traci Curl, University of York
4.35 - 5.10	German fricatives and the issue of laryngeal features: an OT analysis Jill Beckman & Catherine Ringen, University of Iowa	Epenthetic stops, aspiration and segmental status: how not to do phonetics or phonology. Ken Lodge, University of East Anglia, Norwich
5.10 - 5.45	Voicing contrast: licensed by prosody or licensed by cue? Max W. Wheeler, University of Sussex	Stress and constituency in Wari' Daniel L. Everett, University of Manchester
5.45 - 6.20	Cryptosonorants in biaspectual phonology Sylvia Blaho & Patrik Bye, CASTL Tromsø	‘Pharyngeal’ and ‘pharyngealisation’ in the Caucasian languages: phonological correlates vs phonetic realisations Alex Bellem, SOAS, London

Friday 27th May

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
9.00 - 9.35	Phonetic naturalness and phonological learnability Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, University of Alberta	Underspecification: surface neutralization and acquisition Mark Hale, Concordia University & Madelyn Kissock, Oakland University
9.35 - 10.10	How abstract are children’s representations – evidence from Polish Beata Lukaszewicz & Monika Opalinska, University of Warsaw	A Quasi-opacity and harmonic spans in Silly and Megisti Greek Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute & Anthi Revithiadou, University of the Aegean
10.10 - 10.45	Probability distribution, prosodic structure and early word production: An analysis of truncation in child Japanese Mitsuhiko Ota, University of Edinburgh	Phonologically real but not reducible Irene Appelbaum, University of Montana

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
1.45 - 2.20	Whole-word measurement for Finnish children at the end of the one-word stage Katri Saaristo-Helin¹, Tuula Savinainen-Makkonen¹ & Sari Kunnari², ¹University of Helsinki & ²University of Oulu	Onset weight in Arabela and Bella Coola Nina Topintzi, UCL, London
2.20- 2.55	An Optimal alternative to iterative footing Faisal M. Al-Mohanna, King Saud University, Riyadh	The mechanics of backness agreement: implications from two asymmetries in old church Slavic Palatalizations Marta Domagała, University of Warsaw

3.00 - 5.30

Special Session: What is a Phonological Fact?

3.00-3.30

Juliette Blevins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

3.30- 4.00

Charles Reiss, Concordia University

4.30-5.00	Bruce Hayes, UCLA
5.00 - 6.00	General open discussion on any issues raised during the afternoon

Saturday 28th May

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
9.00 - 9.35	The scaling of high tones in French: a phonological and a cognitive model Olivier Piot, CNRS UMR 7018, Paris	Autosegmental association is not automatic Pierre Encrevé, EPHESS & Tobias Scheer, CNRS 6039, Université de Nice
9.35 - 10.10	Pitch accent alignment in light vs. heavy syllables in Cairene Arabic Sam Hellmuth, SOAS, University of London	Was Middle English Closed Syllable Shortening a phonological change? László Kristó, Pázmány Péter Catholic University / Eötvös Loránd University
10.10 - 10.45	Polar Tone in Kanuri Jochen Trommer, University of Potsdam	Lax vowels in Dutch: a Government Phonology analysis Krisztina Polgárdi, University of Szeged

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
11.15 - 11.50	French schwa: a comparative perspective Jacques DurandJulien Eychenne, ERSS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail	Gradient phonotactics in Muna and Optimality Theory Andries Coetzee, University of Michigan & Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
11.50 - 12.25	From features to segments: what is necessary to make corpora more useful for phonological enquiries Anja Geumann, University College Dublin	Resisting syncope Dafna Graf, Universiteit Leiden / ULCL & Martin Krämer, Universitetet i Tromsø / CASTL
12.25-1.00	Is phonological deafness frequency-dependent? The case of liaison consonant in French Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines, Université de Nantes & Noël Nguyen, CNRS & Université de Provence	Opacity in phonologically conditioned suppletion Raúl Aranovich¹, Sharon Inkelas², Orhan Orgun¹ & Ronald Sprouse²,¹University of California, Davis & ²University of California, Berkeley

	Old Dining Hall	Seminar Room
2.30 - 2.35	The avoidance of consonant repetition within words Joost van de Weijer, Lund University	It is all downhill from here: the role of Syllable Contact in Romance Languages Clàudia Pons, Universitat de Barcelona
2.35-3.10	Wrom facts to phonology: an empirical study of rhotic allophony Koen Sebregts, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, OTS, Utrecht University & James M. Scobbie Speech Science Research Centre, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh	MAX-BR and feature copying in Malagasy reduplication Bill Palmer, University of Surrey
3.10 - 3.45	Phonetic duration of English homophones: an investigation of lexical frequency effects Abby Cohn, Johanna Brugman, Clifford Crawford & Andrew Joseph, Cornell University	Morphologically-controlled phonology: the spell-out of lexical categories within words Heather Newell & Glyne Piggott, McGill University

Poster session Saturday, 28th May

Prosodic structure preservation in Government Phonology
Katalin Balogné Bérces, ELTE/PPKE, Hungary

Ein wirkliches Factum oder ein algebraisches Zeichen? The crisis of facts vs. abstraction in nineteenth-century historical phonology
András Cser, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba

The (non)realisation of Irish consonant mutation: phonetics or phonology?
Victoria Kingsley O’Hagan, University of Ulster

Final empty nuclei: evidence from a Serbo-Croatian language game (šatrovački)
Olivier Rizzolo, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Iambicity without stress in Kera
Mary Pearce, UCL & SIL

A synergistic explanation of opacity effects in loanword adaptations
Ashley W. Farris, Indiana University

Quality-Sensitive accents in Ryukyuan - A unified acoustic and phonological account along with other Japanese dialects
Yuko Z. Yoshida, SOAS / Doshisha University

The double life of clusters: both complex and simple?
Marianna Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Palatalization and umlaut: two sides of the same coin
Monika Fischer, University of Szeged

Stress placement in Nuuchahnulth
Ben Thorp, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Russian vowel reduction and phonological opacity
Janina Molczanow, University of Warsaw

Is French a Semitic language?
Claudine Pagliano, University of Paris 10 & CNRS