The Seventeenth Manchester Phonology Meeting



Programme



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Thursday 28 May 2009





Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

1.00-1.30

Phonological sensitivity to syntactic cycles: Swedish and other cases
Glyne Piggott & Eva Dobler  

(McGill University)

A Typological Investigation of Evidence for [sg] in Fricatives
Jill Beckman & Catherine Ringen
(University of Iowa)

1.30-2.00

An analysis of metaphony in Felechosa Asturian

Elisha Nuchi & Mary Paster

(Pomona College)

Dorsal fricatives in German: derivation and representation
Kathrin Linke
(Leiden University)

2.00-2.30

Non-concatenative allomorphy as an argument against paradigmatic Realize Morpheme
Eva Zimmermann
(University of Leipzig)

Is the headedness of intonational and metrical (foot) domains related?
Sam Hellmuth
(University of York)

2.30-3.00

Morphological lenition in Manx as consonant coalescence
Jochen Trommer
(University of Leipzig)

Vowel harmony provides a figure-ground relation for consonant phonotactics
Peter Graff & Andrew Nevins
(MIT & Harvard)




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

3.30-4.00

Phonetic cues to gemination in Lebanese Arabic
Ghada Khattab & Jalal Al-Tamimi
(Newcastle University)


German OSL: to be or not to be ... analogical?
(pt. 2)

Emilie Caratini
(Université de Nice / Universität Leipzig)

4.00-4.30

The interaction of production and perception skills in infancy and their effects on word learning
Rory DePaolis & Tamar Keren-Portnoy 
(James Madison University & University of York)

Tone Sandhi Directionality and Relative Markedness Constraints
Te-hsin Liu & Joaquim Brandäo de Carvalho

(University of California, Berkeley & Paris 8 University)

4.30-5.00

Blick testing word-initial consonant clusters in Slovak
Zsuzsanna Barkanyi

(HAS, Research Institute for Linguistics)

Lenis and fortis in Bavarian: broadening the perspective
Robert Schikowski

(LMU München)

5.00-5.30

ǂhèẽ-ǂhèẽ ǃn̥à̰ĩ-ǃn̥à̰ĩ: clicks, concurrency and the complexity of Khoisan
Julian Bradfield
(University of Edinburgh)

Now monophthong, soon diphthong? The hybrid status of low tone as an indicator of diphthongization
Björn Köhnlein

(Meertens Instituut)

Friday 29 May


Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00-9.30

On the emergence of the Korean aspirates: a dispersion account
Sang-Cheol Ahn
(Kyung Hee University)

Diphthong, know thyself. Binding in Phonology
Markus Pšchtrager
(Bogazici University, Istanbul)

9.30-10.00

The perception of the word-initial quantity contrast in voiceless Swiss German stops
Astrid Kraehenmann
(University of Oxford)

Phonology in antebellum America (1817-1850)
Stuart Davis
(Indiana University)

10.00-10.30

Phonological development in Late Talkers
Marilyn Vihman & Tamar Keren-Portnoy

(University of York)

Contrast in the twentieth century and beyond
Elan Dresher & Daniel Hall
(University of Toronto)






1.30 - 5.00


Special Session: The History of Phonological Theory


1.30 - 2.15


Systematic Phonetics and phonological theory  Bob Ladd (University of Edinburgh) [discussion]


2.15 - 3.00


Modulation and translation in structuralist and generative phonology Tobias Scheer (University of Nice)


3.30 - 4.15


Methods and Theory in Phonology John Goldsmith (University of Chicago)  [link includes discussion]


 4.15-5.00  General Discussion



Saturday 30 May




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

9.00-9.30

Measuring phonetic precursor robustness
Alan Yu

(University of Chicago)

Underapplication of vowel reduction to schwa in Majorcan Catalan
Clà
udia Pons-Moll 
(Universitat Aut˜noma de Barcelona)

9.30-10.00

Ternary rhythm is the consequence of clash resolution!
Ben Hermans & Björn Köhnlein 
(Meertens Institute)

On the application of velar palatalization in Italian nouns and adjectives
Maria Giavazzi 
(MIT)

10.00-10.30

Rethinking the universality of the stress-focus correlation
Laura J. Downing 
(ZAS, Berlin)

Telugu vowel assimilation: harmony, umlaut, or neither?
Madelyn Kissock & Catherine Dworak 
(Concordia University, Montreal)




Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

1.30-2.00

Evidence for indeterminate representations: schwa-insertion/intrusion in Dutch
Koen Sebregts
(Utrecht University)

 

Proliferating prosodies in Tohono OÕodham reduplication(s)
Colleen Fitzgerald

(The University of Texas at Arlington)

2.00-2.30

Two origins of schwa: release and reduction
Daniel Silverman
(San Jose State University)

Uniform exponence and reduplication: evidence from Kinande
Bronwyn Bjorkman
(MIT)

2.30-3.00

A functional approach to the analysis of Egyptian Arabic intonation
Dina El Zarka
(Graz University)

Neighbor effects and analogy in Hawaiian reduplication
Robert Kennedy & 'Ōiwi Parker Jones
(UC-Santa Barbara & Oxford)



Old Dining Hall

Seminar Room

3.30-4.00

Where are our r's? An acoustic analysis of the syllable affiliation of r-sandhi phenomena
Rachael-Anne Knight & Mark Jones

(City University)


A representational take on TETU in L2 phonology: the case of final devoicing
Nancy Kula
(University of Essex)

4.00-4.30

A usage-based approach to Dutch /r/-deletion
Leendert Plug
(University of Leeds)


The Emergence of The Unmarked in Finnish loanword phonology
Daniel Karvonen
(University of Minnesota)

4.30-5.00

Cumulative violations and complexity thresholds: evidence from Lakhota
Adam Albright
(MIT)

A case of opaque allomorph selection
Marc van Oostendorp
(Meertens Instituut)



Poster Papers


The (hi)story of laryngeal contrasts in Government Phonology
Katalin Balogne Berces & Daniel Huber

(PPKE University & Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)

Markedness and a vowel change in progress in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona
Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó— & Ariadna Benet

(University of Hamburg)

On the acoustics of the Northern Mansi vowel system
László  Fejes

(Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

The phonetics-phonology interface in the adaptation of nasal vowels
Nabila Louriz
(Hassan II, Casablanca)

Why are phoneme frequency distributions skewed?
Andrew Martin
(Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique)

Borrowing is good: what the tonal patterns in Sukuma loanwords tell us about the nature of its ternary domains.
Masangu Matondo
(University of Florida)

Polish palatalisation in a split-component phonology
Grzegorz Michalski
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)

Phonological prominence as a signal of prosodic left edges in Stockholm Swedish
Sara Myrberg
(Stockholm University)

Swimming against the current: CVCV compensatory shortening.
Maike Prehn
(Meertens Instituut)

Positional asymmetries in Spanish Nasal Codas: velarisation, alveolarisation and underspecification
Michael Ramsammy
(University of Manchester)

Curl as a link between tonal accent and stød
Tomas Riad

(Stockholm University)

From strings to loops & back
Bridget Samuels
(Harvard University)

Onset prominence and phonotactics
Geoff Schwartz
(Adam Mickiewicz University)

Vowel insertion in Latin – the problem of two ÒepentheticÓ vowels
Norval Smith
(University of Amsterdam/ACLC)

Opacity revisited within the light of OT-CC and autosegmental phonology
Francesc Torres-Tamarit
(Universitat Aut˜noma de Barcelona)

Differences of syllabic structure in mental models
Azra Ali & Michael Ingleby
(University of Huddersfield)

Consonant representations revisited: the problem of ejectives
Alex Bellem
(CBRL & University of Salford)

Association under control
Samir Ben Si Saïd, Tobias Scheer & Markíta Ziková
(CNRS 6039, Nice University & Brno University)

Korean loanword adaptation is simply L1 phonological perception
Paul Boersma & Silke Hamann
(University of Amsterdam & University of Duesseldorf)

The phonology of Latin gn-initial stems
András Cser
(Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Omnisyllabicity and hiatus in Sino-Tibetan languages
(supplement
)
Kristine Hildebrandt
(Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

Change in progress leading to atypical asymmetries in the vowel system
Ronny Keulen
(Catholic University of Leuven)

Th'interpretation of t'definite article in th'North of England
Ken Lodge

(UEA, Norwich)

Taiwanese EFL learners' perception of English word stress
Shu-chen Ou 
(National Sun Yat-sen University)

Testing usage-based predictions on Hungarian vowel reduction
Péter Rácz & Dániel Szeredi 

(ELTE-HAS)

Reduplication and linearization
Charles Reiss & Marc Simpson

(Concordia University)

Phonological theory in clinical linguistics
Ben Rutter & Martin Ball
(University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center & University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

The effect of the type and position of morpheme boundaries on the production of morpheme-final pitch accents by British English learners of Japanese
Becky Taylor
(Nagoya University)

Markedness and economy
Ali Tifrit
(Université de Nantes)