The Sixteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting



Programme



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Thursday 22nd May 2008




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

1.00 - 1.30

Contrastive prosodification and underlying floating segments: false epenthesis in Hungarian

Sylvia Blaho & Curt Rice

(CASTL, University of Tromsø)

On word prosody in loanword phonology

Stuart Davis & Jung-yueh Tu

(Indiana University & Simon Fraser University)

1.30 - 2.00

The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid-vowel laxing

Bert Botma, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman

(University of Leiden)

Processing differences in complex word forms: Phonology, Morphology or something else? Mathias Scharinger & Frank Zimmerer 

(University of Konstanz & University of Frankfurt)

2.00 - 2.30

An analysis of glide formation in Continental French 

Stephanie Kelly

(University of Western Ontario/Université de Toulouse IILe Mirail)

Limited phase impenetrability at PF: a real solution to a Micronesian paradox

Glyne Piggott

(McGill University)

2.30 - 3.00

Similarities and differences between spoken and signed language phonology: insights from children’s sign language development

Chloe Marshall, Wolfgang Mann & Gary Morgan (City University)

On two types of moraic consonants – Winteler’s Law in the light of Moraic Theory

Guido Seiler & Kathrin Würth

(University of Manchester & University of Zurich)




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

3.30 - 4.00

Voiceless consonants in North Low Saxon: [spread glottis] equals μ-association

Maike Prehn 

(Meertens Instituut)

Accounting for subphonemic centralization in Hungarian

Dániel Szeredi

(Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

4.00 - 4.30

German vowel length: quantity and activity

(supplement)

Emilie Caratini

(Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Universität Leipzig)

A limit to “crazy” reanalysis: the story of /l/ gemination in Quebec French

Annick Morin

(University of Toronto)

4.30 - 5.00

Phonetically-based sound change in dialects of Polish 

Bartłomiej Czaplicki 

(University of Warsaw)

Taking a free ride can cau[ɻ]se severe hyperrhoticity

Martin Krämer

 (University of Tromsø / CASTL)

5.00 - 5.30

Reconsidering feature organization: evidence from Spanish

Carolina González

(Florida State University)

‘Incursions of the idiosyncratic’ as faithfulness optimisation

Christian Uffmann

(University of Sussex)



Friday 23rd May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 - 9.30

Duration in Inari Saami

Patrik Bye, Elin Sagulin and Ida Toivonen (University of Tromsø, Uppsala University & Carleton University)

Umlaut is phonological. Evidence from ineffability

supplemental handout

Ben Hermans & Marc van Oostendorp 

(Meertens Institute, KNAW)

9.30 - 10.00

A cross-linguistic perspective on the role of prosodic structure in the acquisition of Manner of Articulation features

Nicole Altvater-Mackensen, Christophe dos Santos & Paula Fikkert

(Radboud University Nijmegen)

Too many levels, too few solutions: mutations and postlexical phonology in Breton

Pavel Iosad 

(Universitetet i Tromsø/CASTL)

10.00 - 10.30

The Obligatory Contour Principle in artificial language segmentation

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & René Kager

(Utrecht University)

West-Nordic sound-shifts and fissions: a Pan-Chronic view.

Kristján Árnason

(The University of Iceland, Reykjavík)





1.30 - 5.00


Special Session: Phonology and the mental lexicon


1.30 - 2.15


Abigail C. Cohn The nature of lexical representation:  fine-grained and abstract


2.15 - 3.00


Sarah Hawkins Contributions of phonetic detail to the mental lexicon


3.30 - 4.15


Aditi Lahiri Asymmetry in phonological representations and language comprehension 


4.15 - 5.00


Discussion: questions and comments welcome from all





Saturday 24th May



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00 - 9.30

Resyllabification in connected speech, or not: a new empirical study of English /l/ vocalisation

James M. Scobbie* & Marianne Pouplier†

(*Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh †University of Munich)

[ðə swɪˈŋɒmɪtə ˈtɜːnd  əˈgenst sə ˈmɪŋɪs ˈkæmbəl]. Evidence for Chung’s Generalization.

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero

(University of Manchester)

9.30 - 10.00

A three-way distinction in syllable weight: evidence from Finnish stress

Daniel Karvonen

(University of Minnesota)

“I am derived, therefore I resist” – diphthongs in Cairene Arabic

Islam Youssef 

(CASTL, University of Tromsø)

10.00 - 10.30

Categorical failure in the analysis of single stress systems

Patrycja Strycharczuk

(CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Is there a phonological poverty of the stimulus argument?

Márton Sóskuthy

(Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)







Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

11.00 - 11.30

Cue switching in the perception of approximants: evidence from two English dialects

Rachael-Anne Knight†, Christina Villafaña Dalcher† & Mark J. Jones‡

(†City University, London, ‡University of Cambridge)

Positional strength in strict CV: on predicted initial weakness in clusterless languages

Nancy C. Kula

(University of Essex)

11.30 - 12.00

Modelling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the mental lexicon

Silke Hamann*, Diana Apoussidou† & Paul Boersma†

(*University of Duesseldorf, †University of Amsterdam)

Structural complexity and ‘strong positions’ in Government Phonology

Daniel Huber

(Université Paris III)

12.00 - 12.30

Speech production with an exemplar-based lexicon

Robert Kirchner & Roger Moore 

(University of Alberta & University of Sheffield)

Characterising the Arabic sound system: consonant resonance and phonological representations

Alex Bellem (SOAS)






Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

2.30 - 3.00

Onsets: phonological problems solvers

Rina Kreitman

(Emory University)

Unstressed vowel harmony in Fowlis Wester Scots 

Norval Smith

(University of Amsterdam)

3.00 - 3.30

Word initial extrasyllabicity? Evidence from the acquisition of Greek

Eirini Sanoudaki 

(University College London)

Vowel harmony has direction and context: evidence from a corpus study

Barış Kabak, Kazumi Maniwa, Eva Kasselkus & Silke Weber*

(University of Konstanz, *University of Calgary)

3.30 - 4.00

A universally gradient co-occurrence restriction?

Adam Albright

(MIT)

Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time in Swedish: phonological implications

Jill Beckman1, Pétur Helgason2, Bob McMurray1 & Catherine Ringen1

(1University of Iowa, 2Uppsala University)



Poster Papers



Features as speech signal patterns

Phillip Backley & Kuniya Nasukawa 

(Tohoku Gakuin University)

Four English glides

Katalin Balogné Bérces

(PPKE University, Piliscsaba, Hungary)

Opacity in European Portuguese: an OT-CC account

Gisela Collischonn 

(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil)

Inter-tonic syllables in words ending in <-ation> in English

Anissa Dahak

(Université Paris 7 - Paris Diderot)

Implementation constraints of parallelism on phonological innovation

Mark Aaron Gibson 

(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Phonotactic generalizations condition alternation learning

Peter Graff & Jenna Berkowitz 

(MIT)

Unity in diversity: sonority sequencing in Welsh

S.J. Hannahs 

(Newcastle University)

How does phonological grammar work in lexical diffusion?

Hijo Kang 

(Stony Brook University) 

From outsider to prototype: the lexical tone contrast in Arzbach (Westerwald)

Bjoern Koehnlein 

(Meertens Instituut)

Faithfulness and positional licensing: the MATCH constraint in Khalkha Mongolian [ATR] vowel harmony

Amy LaCross

(University of Arizona)

Diachronic evolution and harmony in Karimojong: a Stratal Optimality-Theoretic analysis

Diane Lesley-Neuman

(Michigan State University)

Phonological grammar and the mental lexicon in Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment

Chloe Marshall1, Franck Ramus2 & Heather van der Lely1

(1University College London &  2EHESS/CNRS/DEC-ENS Paris)

ATR allophones or undershoot in Kera

Mary Pearce 

(SIL)

Regional characteristics in different speech styles in L1 and L2 of Belfast English

Christiane Ulbrich

(University of Ulster)

English and Polish morphonotactics in first language acquisition.

Paulina Zydorowicz

(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)