The Sixteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
Programme
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Thursday 22nd May 2008
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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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) |
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4.00 - 4.30 |
German vowel length: quantity and activity 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) |
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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) |
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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
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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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 Ben Hermans & Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute, KNAW) |
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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) |
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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) |
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1.30 - 5.00 |
Special Session: Phonology and the mental lexicon
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1.30 - 2.15 |
Abigail C. Cohn The nature of lexical representation: fine-grained and abstract
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2.15 - 3.00 |
Sarah Hawkins Contributions of phonetic detail to the mental lexicon
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3.30 - 4.15 |
Aditi Lahiri Asymmetry in phonological representations and language comprehension
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4.15 - 5.00 |
Discussion: questions and comments welcome from all
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Old Dining Hall |
Seminar Room |
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2.30 - 3.00 |
Onsets: phonological problems solvers Rina Kreitman (Emory University) |
Unstressed vowel harmony in Fowlis Wester Scots Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) |
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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) |
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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
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Features as speech signal patterns Phillip Backley & Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University) |
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Katalin Balogné Bérces (PPKE University, Piliscsaba, Hungary) |
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Opacity in European Portuguese: an OT-CC account Gisela Collischonn (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil) |
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Inter-tonic syllables in words ending in <-ation> in English Anissa Dahak (Université Paris 7 - Paris Diderot) |
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Implementation constraints of parallelism on phonological innovation Mark Aaron Gibson (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
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Phonotactic generalizations condition alternation learning Peter Graff & Jenna Berkowitz (MIT) |
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Unity in diversity: sonority sequencing in Welsh S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle University) |
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How does phonological grammar work in lexical diffusion? Hijo Kang (Stony Brook University) |
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From outsider to prototype: the lexical tone contrast in Arzbach (Westerwald) Bjoern Koehnlein (Meertens Instituut) |
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Faithfulness and positional licensing: the MATCH constraint in Khalkha Mongolian [ATR] vowel harmony Amy LaCross (University of Arizona) |
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Diachronic evolution and harmony in Karimojong: a Stratal Optimality-Theoretic analysis Diane Lesley-Neuman (Michigan State University) |
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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) |
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ATR allophones or undershoot in Kera Mary Pearce (SIL) |
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Regional characteristics in different speech styles in L1 and L2 of Belfast English Christiane Ulbrich (University of Ulster) |
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English and Polish morphonotactics in first language acquisition. Paulina Zydorowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) |