The Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting


Programme


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Thursday 25th May 2006




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

1.00 - 1.30

Why eatees are not E.T.'s: Blocking of aspiration by output-output constraints

Adam Albright

Crosslinguistic challenges for the prosodic hierarchy: evidence from word domains

Balthasar Bickel, Kristine Hildebrandt & René Schiering

1.30 - 2.00

Supportive Contrast

Markus Hiller

On the typological rarity of some Tupi vowel systems

Didier Demolin & Luciana Storto

2.00 - 2.30

A chicken-and-egg situation? Setting lexical marks in interaction with the grammar

Diana Apoussidou

Towards a typology of linguistic rhythm

René Schiering

2.30 - 3.00

Toward an unified analysis of local tone shift and local tone spread phenomena
Cédric Patin

Explanation in phonetics and phonology:  understanding Dorsey's Law in Hocank (Winnebago)

Stuart Davis, Karen Baertsch & William Anderson




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

3.30 - 4.00

Covert articulation of Scottish English /r/: now you see and hear it, now you don’t

James M Scobbie & Jane Stuart-Smith

The lexical-access/grammar interface: accounting for Tagalog tapping

Kie Zuraw

4.00 - 4.30

Phonology and sociophonetics of lenition in Liverpool English (Scouse)

Giovanna Marotta & Marlen Barth

Evidence against voicing spread in Kera

Mary Pearce

4.30 - 5.00

The phonetic substance of prominence level: the case of stress and accent in Catalan

Lluïsa Astruc & Pilar Prieto

Denasalization in Delta Yokuts

Norval Smith & Bert Botma

5.00 - 5.30

An auditory approach to phonological prominence

Katherine Crosswhite

A representational solution for cyclicity effects: Direct Interface

Tobias Scheer



Friday 26th May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 - 9.30

Vowel harmony and disharmony: a paradigmatic view

Paulo Chagas de Souza

Phonetic variation and phonological theory: German fricative voicing

Jill Beckman, Michael Jessen & Catherine Ringen

9.30 - 10.00

Looking beyond harmony: a more complete picture of Hungarian vowels

Bruce Morén

An acoustic comparison of lexical and epenthetic vowels in Lebanese

Nancy Hall & Maria Gouskova

10.00 - 10.30

Directionality in harmony: evidence from Pulaar

Tomomasa Sasa

Tonal contrasts and loans in Scandinavian

Elisabet Jönsson-Steiner, Allison Wetterlin & Aditi Lahiri




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

12.30 - 1.00

The phonetics structures of endangered Mexican languages project: consequences of fieldwork phonetics for phonological theory

Heriberto Avelino

Opacity in Cypriot Greek: a declarative approach

Photini Coutsougera

1.00 - 1.30

Reconciling accent distribution and the ‘unity of pitch phonology’ in Egyptian Arabic

Sam Hellmuth

Opacity as a matter of representation

Laura J. Downing




2.30 - 6.15


Special Session: Fieldwork and Phonological Theory 


2.30-3.15

Daniel L. Everett 

On the philosophy of field research and the relationship of field research to phonological theory.

3.15- 4.00

Larry Hyman 

Phonological theory and field work: is the gap widening?

4.30-5.15

Keren Rice 

‘Free’ variation in Slave (Northern Athabaskan): relating fieldwork and phonology.

5.15 - 5.45

Jacques Durand & Daniel L. Everett 

Peter Ladefoged: remembrance and discussion

5.45 - 6.15

General open discussion on any issues raised during the afternoon



Saturday 27th May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 - 9.30

Tonal Restrictions in Kam: The effects of aspiration, glottalization, and vowel length on lexical tone

Katie Schack

Italian palatalization: into the phonology or into the lexicon?

Martin Krämer

9.30 - 10.00

Issues in the theory of lexical tone: on the phonological modelling of the tones of Tamang, in light of a comparison with level tones (Naxi) and pitch-plus-voice-quality tones (Vietnamese)

Martine Mazaudon & Alexis Michaud

Resolving hiatus in Turkish: An underspecification account

Barış Kabak

10.00 - 10.30

The phonologist and the design of documentary fieldwork:

assuming a role in data production from the outset

Erich R. Round

Velars lack a place of articulation: empirical evidence, theoretical considerations

Daniel Huber




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

12.30 - 1.00

Deriving moraic consonants from temporal coordination

Jason Shaw

Semantically Vacuous Double Affixation: a PF Interface Effect

Heather Newell

1.00 - 1.30

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Phonological effects of Late Lexical Insertion and derivation by phase

Glyne Piggott



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

2.30 - 3.00

Reassessing constraints on complex rhymes in English: the true status of the coronal obstruents

Anthony M. Lewis

Final Devoicing as an argument for turbid representations

Marc van Oostendorp

3.00 - 3.30

What determines the distribution of consonant clusters in English? And: Should phonology care? New evidence from word formation

Sabine Lappe

The acquisition and evolution of faithfulness rankings

Paul Boersma

3.30 - 4.00

Colloquial Finnish: truncation patterns motivated by prosody

Tuuli Morrill Adams

Syllabification patterns in Arabic dialects: a response to Kiparsky 2003 Janet C. E. Watson




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

4.30 - 5.00

Time-course of adaptation to regional and foreign accents

Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin & Frédérique Girard

Towards a turbid theory of segment interaction

Christian Uffmann

5.00 - 5.30

On two types of phonological information

Eric Carlson & John Harris

The non-deletability of laryngeal L

Ben Hermans



Poster session 1  Friday 26th May, 11.00 - 12.30


Bogus clusters, vowel syncope and syllabic consonants and what they have in common.

Artur Kijak

Does syllable priming reduce the prevalence of tip-of-the-tongue?

Jeremy Goslin & Tim Perfect

Fascinating fossils: the curious case of t-to-r in West Yorkshire

Judith M. Broadbent

‘Initial’ geminates initially and medially

Nina Topintzi

Mid-vowel lowering as complexity constraint on heads

Gabor Turcsan

MWUs and the prosodic hierarchy: a case study

Nicolas Ballier & Susan Mauroux

Nasal consonants in Tupi and Jê languages

Luciana Storto & Didier Demolin

Phonology between home and field research

Nabila Louriz

Root-and-No-Pattern morphology

Dafna Graf

Similarity avoidance in Bengali fixed-segment reduplication

Sameer ud Dowla Khan

Statistics is not enough for language acquisition

Naomi Yamaguchi

Syllable structure in the postlexical domain in Japanese: a view from vowel devoicing.

Manami Hirayama

Syntagmatic and paradigmatic contrast in the realization of postvocalic and intervocalic alveolo-palatal fricatives in Western Catalan

Josefina Carrera-Sabaté & Clàudia Pons Moll

The influence of phonemic vowel length on the voicing effect

Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza

The perception of L2 Stress

Heidi Altmann

Towards a ‘quantal’ definition of nasal vowels, on the basis of physiological and acoustical evidence

Angélique Amelot


Poster session 2  Saturday 27th May, 11.00 - 12.30


A feature-driven loanword adaptation of English and French plosives into Korean: a case of the symbiosis between perception and grammar in loanword phonology

Hyunsoon Kim

A template for Turkish

Ann Denwood

A three-way comparison in perceptual development: monolingual children vs. simultaneous bilingual children vs. adult L2 learners

Ivana Brasileiro & Paola Escudero

Coping with “non-ideal” utterances: why speakers don't have to be perfect.

Frank Zimmerer & Henning Reetz

Evidence from two Serbo-Croatian language games for final empty nuclei and the syllable node 

Olivier Rizzolo

Faithfulness and identity in Luganda Reduplication

Francis Katamba

Incongruent speech data: its potential in phonological fieldwork

Michael Ingleby & Azra N. Ali

Mora or syllable? Some problems of Nganasan phonology

Várnai Zsuzsa

Neural correlates to a three way contrast of duration in speech and non-speech stimuli

Heriberto Avelino & Anna Shestakova

On prefixal clitics and cliticky prefixes in Upper German

Astrid Kraehenmann & Frans Plank

Phonetic cues for syllable structure? Evidences from labiovelars in Tuscany.

Nadia Nocchi

Separate grammars: the shifting nature of second position in Serbo-Croatian.

Vanessa Shokeir

St’át’imcets glottalised resonants: phonetic variability and theoretical implications

Sonya Bird

The hybrid nature of voiced labiodentals (especially in German)

Silke Hamann

To umlaut or not to umlaut: feature conflict in production versus perception
Mathias Scharinger