The Fifteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting


Programme



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Thursday 24th May 2007




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

1.00 – 1.30

Are there universal principles determining prosodic word size?

Balthasar Bickel, Kristine Hildebrandt & René Schiering

Revisiting onset faithfulness constraints: evidence from Catalan voice neutralization

Jill Beckman & Catherine Ringen

1.30 – 2.00

Evidence for pword structure

Renate Raffelsiefen & Caren Brinckmann

A universal typology of truncation

Birgit Alber & Sabine Lappe

2.00 – 2.30

Tonal asymmetry in Norwegian derivational affixes

Allison Wetterlin & Aditi Lahiri

Privativity and allophony in small inventories

Ove Lorentz

2.30 – 3.00

Umlaut as default in Swiss German

Astrid Kraehenmann

All equal, all different

Peter Jurgec




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

3.30 – 4.00

Turbidity as “Legibility Conditions”

Julien Eychenne

Local and long-distance analyses of harmony in metaphonic systems

Joan Mascaró

4.00 – 4.30

Enhancement of contrast and the origins of Consonant Gradation in Finno-Saamic

Patrik Bye

Vowel harmony in Kera

Mary Pearce

4.30 – 5.00

A Government Phonology analysis of syllabic consonants in Coptic

Jean-Marc Beltzung & Cédric Patin

Consonant-vowel interactions and vowel harmony in Huave

Yuni Kim

5.00 – 5.30

‘Contour’ segments as discordant stops

Kuniya Nasukawa & Phillip Backley

When a feature is metrical: vowel harmony in two Romance dialects

Stefano Canalis



Friday 25th May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 – 9.30

Allomorphic simplification and the regularisation of hiatus avoidance strategies in contact-induced Englishes

David Britain & Sue Fox 

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9.30 – 10.00

[r]-dissimilation in American English

Nancy Hall

An interface approach to prosodic recursivity

Barış Kabak & Anthi Revithiadou

10.00 – 10.30

Social information shifting phoneme boundaries in speech perception

Katie Drager

Natural classes are not enough: biased generalization in novel onset clusters

Adam Albright




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

11.00 – 11.30

On the ambivalent representation of the Korean liquid

Sang-Cheol Ahn

Perception of contrast between clusters & their simplified counterparts correlates with Final Cluster Simplification

Franz K Cozier

11.30 – 12.00

The word-final [t] problem in Korean

Stuart Davis & Hyunsook Kang 

On the phonotactics of liquids in Latin

András Cser




2.30 – 6.15


Special Session: Where is allomorphy?


2.30 – 3.15

John J. McCarthy: Where’s opacity?

3.15 – 4.00

Glyne Piggott: Morpheme realization by vocabulary insertion and word minimality by phases

4.30 – 5.15

Mirjam Ernestus: The role of distributional probability in allomorph selection

5.15 – 5.45

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero: On the nature of the cycle

5.45 – 6.15

[Time available for extra discussion]


Saturday 26th May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 – 9.30

Grassman’s Law in Greek: allomorphy versus aspiration

Bert Botma & Norval Smith

Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in Modern German

Sandra Döring

9.30 – 10.00

The importance of detailed and multifaceted data in analyzing allomorphy

Bruce Morén

Tree-cum-grids prosody can solve the Too-many-repairs Problem

Ben Hermans

10.00 – 10.30

Dinka noun plurals and their implications for theories of morphology

Bob Ladd, Bert Remijsen & Caguor Adong Manyang

Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean

Daniel Silverman





Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

12.30 – 1.00

Multiple-feature mutation and realize morpheme

Jochen Trommer

Phonological forms don’t always add up – final and non-final schwas in non-rhotic British English

Barry Heselwood 

1.00 – 1.30

Set the controls for the heart of the alternation

Christian Uffmann

Moraic faithfulness: evidence from Blackfoot and English

Emily Elfner




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

2.30 – 3.00

Feature co-occurrence constraints in first-language acquisition

Clara Levelt & Marc van Oostendorp

Why Czech case markers sometimes get lost

Markéta Ziková & Tobias Scheer

3.00 – 3.30

Perceptual bias based on morphology of Korean Palatalization

Miyeon Ahn & Andries W. Coetzee

Inflectional paradigms have a base: evidence from Southern German dialects

T. A. Hall & John H. G. Scott

3.30 – 4.00

Gradient morpheme structure and co-occurrence restrictions in Korean monosyllabic stems

Chiyuki Ito

Phonologically conditioned suppletive allomorphy: cross-linguistic results and theoretical consequences

Mary Paster




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

4.30 – 5.00

Return of the living dead: attack of the ghost foot

Martin Krämer

Hybrids: Korean loanwords from Japanese and English

Chiyuki Ito, Yoonjung Kang  & Michael Kenstowicz

5.00 – 5.30

Coda licensing and the mora in North Saami Gradation

Berit-Anne Bals, David Odden & Curt Rice

Perception of non-native phonological contrasts – evidence from and for featural representations.

Mark Hale & Madelyn Kissock 



Poster session 1  Friday 25th May, 12.00 - 1.30



Is raddoppiamento sintattico tied to the phonological phrase? The evidence against.

supplement

Matthew Absalom & John Hajek

Stochastic Phonology: evidence from Korean reduplication

Young-ran An

The phrasing of right dislocations in Catalan: an OT account

Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera

Phonetic explanation in phonology: appealing to perceptibility scales

Jason Bishop

Stress, duration, and pitch high in Paiwan word-prosody

Chun-Mei Chen

Towards an intonational grammar for Icelandic

Nicole Dehé

Phonetic cues and phonological representations of West Germanic plosives

Janet Grijzenhout & Muna Pohl

Reduction and Syncope in Klamath reduplication

Wendell A. Kimper

Reduplication as evidence for the skeletal nature of tones

Te-hsin Liu 

Phonetic similarity, the nature of mergers and the role of standardized language.

Ken Lodge

Allomorphy as lexically licensed context-variation

Ingvar P M Löfstedt

A Span Theoretic account for Kinande dominance and dominance reversal

Tomomasa Sasa

From allophony to allomorphy: The case of German umlaut

Mathias Scharinger

Apocope vs syncope in West Saxon adjectives: Evidence for cophonologies

Penny Thompson

Consonant clusters in Ivory Coast French: lenition trajectories and free variation

Gabor Turcsan & Béatrice Akissi Boutin


Poster session 2  Saturday 26th May, 11.00 - 12.30



Vowel quality effects on vowel deletion in Spanish

Irene Barberia

Feature Geometry and OT: a case study of Pasiego and Andalusian vowel harmony

Sylvia Blaho

Regularity and irregularity in Italian verbal inflection

Gilles Boyé & Fabio Montermini

Where does German vowel length come from?

Synchronic and diachronic evidence (supplement)

Emilie Caratini

Morpheme-specific alternations triggered by “maximality” constraints

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

French liaison with plural indefinite determiners: when phonology and syntax are not sufficient to explain variation

Géraldine Mallet

Theoretical issues in ternary shifting and spreading in Bantu tonology

Masangu Matondo

Phonological representation of phonetically long nasals in Low German

Maike Prehn

Superheavy champs: truncations in Dutch, English and German

Ruben van de Vijver

Boudledidge: a Mitford language game

Mary Ann Walter 

The prosodic anomalies of the subminimal morphemes -ig/-(e)lig/-(e)lijk in Dutch and Norwegian

Allison Wetterlin & Janet Grijzenhout

Phonology and morphology are in a single OT grammar

Matthew Wolf

Contrast in Buchan Scots laryngeal assimilation

Islam Youssef