The Eighteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting



Programme



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Thursday 20 May 2010




Old Dining Hall

JCR

Perceptual differences in five-vowel
systems reflect differences in feature
structure

Paul Boersma & Kateřina Chládková  

(University of Amsterdam)

Currently available data on English
t/d-deletion fail to refute the classical
modular feedforward architecture of
phonology

Ricardo Bermudez-Otero
(University of Manchester)

Phonetic cues to loanword adaptation
Nabila Louriz
(Hassan II University, Casablanca)
Eliminating precedence relations from
phonology

Kuniya Nasukawa
(Tohoku Gakuin University)

UP on StaGe: A lexical segmentation
strategy based on phonotactics

Diana Apoussidou

(Utrecht University)

What the initial CV is initial of
Tobias Scheer
(Nice University/CNRS)

The emergence of intervocalic sibilants
Thaïs Cristófaro-Silva, Janaína
Almeida & Leonardo Almeida

(UFMG)

Positivity, Serialism, and Finite
Goodness

Wendell Kimper
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Feature geometry meets contrastive
specification: incomplete neutralization
reloaded

Pavel Iosad
(University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Default Place Assignment and Phonetic
Underspecification in Spanish Nasal
Codas

Michael Ramsammy
(University of Manchester)


Labial consonants in Mohawk

Daniel Hall
(Meertens Instituut)
Variations in Squliq Atayal
Morphologically-Induced Vowel
Syncope

Hui-chuan J. Huang
(National Tsing Hua University)

Onset Prominence, loanword
epenthesis, and the phonetics-
phonology interface

Geoff Schwartz
(UAM Poznan)
Labial palatalization in Zulu:
dissimilation without the OCP

William G. Bennett
(Rutgers University)

The Semantics of Phonological
Features

Martin Krämer
(University of Tromsø)
What's in a word? Prosody in Polish
voicing

Patrycja Strycharczuk
(University of Manchester)



Friday 21 May

Old Dining Hall

JCR

Prosodic manipulation in child-
directed speech: an integrated, cross-
linguistic study

Elinor Payne, Pilar Prieto, Lluisa
Astruc, Brechtje Post & Maria del Mar
Vanrell
  

(University of Oxford, Open University,
University of Cambridge, Pompeu Fabra)

Dialect Contact & Phonological
Change at the Variety and Speaker
Level

Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen
Llamas, Jennifer Nycz & Dominic
Watt

(Newcastle University, University of York)

Templates, spreading and palatal
patterns in the acquisition of English
and French

Sophie Wauquier
(Université Paris 8, CNRS)
Variation of consonant-final nouns in
heritage Korean in Toronto

Yoonjung Kang & Seung-Joon Park
(University of Toronto Scarborough)

Doubly Marked Lags with
Exacerbation

Hrayr Khanjian, Yasutada Sudo &
Guillaume Thomas

(MIT)

Frequency effects interact with
phonological grammar

Marjoleine Sloos
(Albert-Ludwig University)







Special Session: Sociolinguistics, Variation and Phonology

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Predictability & Other Biases in Phonological Variation  [mp4] Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) [discussion mp4]



Implications of Sociolinguistic Findings for Phonological Theory [mp4]William Labov (University of Pennsylvania) [discussion mp4]



Detail and Abstraction in Socio-Phonology [mp4] Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)  [discussion mp4]


Geography & Theory: Some Problems and Some Perspectives [mp4 part 1, part 2] Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut & Leiden University)  [discussion was not filmed]


   General Discussion



Saturday 22 May


Old Dining Hall

JCR

Phonology-Syntax Alignment is
Relative

Laura J. Downing
(ZAS, Berlin)

Avoiding multiple complexities in the
prosodic word: Minimization in
Colloquial Bamana

Christopher Green & Stuart Davis
(Indiana University)

Place assimilation changes its triggers
Claire Halpert
(MIT)
There Is No 'Duplication Problem'
Mary Paster
(Pomona College)
Clitics in Middle Dutch
Johanneke Sytsema, Janet Grijzenhout
& Aditi Lahiri

(Oxford University, University of Konstanz)

Empirical evidence for laryngeal
features: German vs. true voice
languages

Jill Beckman, Michael Jessen &
Catherine Ringen

(University of Iowa/Bundeskriminalamt)

Coronal phonology and phonetic
grounding: new EMA evidence from
Wubuy (Australia)

Mark Harvey & Brett Baker 
(University of New England)

Variation and Vowel Harmony: the
Case of Hebrew Loanwords 

Evan-Gary Cohen
(Tel Aviv University)

Pull poor Paul out of the pool: The
antics of /l/ in the English South-East

Christian Uffmann, Claire Marie Slight
 & Stephanie Sheehan

(University of Sussex)

One-to-Many Relations
Rachel Walker
(University of Southern California)
Rotuman Metathesis: Establishing
Order

Mark Hale & Madelyn Kissock
(Concordia University, Montreal)
Generalized Mora Affixation
Jochen Trommer  & Eva Zimmermann
(University of Leipzig)
Order-independent laryngeal
neutralization in Lakhota onset clusters

Adam Albright
(MIT)
[cancelled]




Poster Papers


Is There Incomplete Neutralization in American English Flapping?
Aaron Braver

(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

"Divorce" in the history of German
Emilie Caratini

(Université de Nice)

Vowel raising in pretonic mid-vowels in Brazilian Portuguese
Marcia Carmo & Luciani Tenani 

(Universidade Estadual Paulista)

Phonotactic learning: phonology or phonetics?
Alejandrina Cristia & Sharon Peperkamp
(LSCP)

Can we ever say assimilation is categorical?
Barry Heselwood
(University of Leeds)

The special status of the coronal in the explanation for variation
Wyn Johnson & David Britain
(University of Essex, University of Bern)

The phonological status of epenthetic vowels: insights from crosslinguistic experiments
Baris Kabak
(University of Konstanz)

Generating phonological words: evidence from English phrase production
Debra Malpass, Linda Wheeldon & Aditi Lahiri
(University of Birmingham, University of Oxford)

Tone patterns versus High plateau or the prosody-syntax interface in Símákonde Noun Phrases (BantuP23)
Sophie Manus
(UMR 5596 - CNRS & Lumière Lyon 2 University)

Convergence and Divergence of Perception and Production in Phonological Acquisition
Tara McAllister
(Montclair State University)

Edge Prominence
Beata Moskal
(University of Connecticut)

Location and gender influences on tonal dialects of Kera (Chadic)
Mary Pearce
(UCL and SIL)

A functional approach to sociolinguistic salience: Definite article reduction in the North of England
Peter Racz
(University of Freiburg)

Rhythm and Reduction in Icelandic
Michael Schaefer
(University of Freiburg)

 Immigrants Start on the Periphery - A Stratal Approach to Loanword Phonology
Marko Simonovic
(Universiteit Utrecht)


Belfast and Glasgow English 'rises': Are there phonological distinctions between them?

Jennifer Sullivan
(University of Edinburgh)

 Morphologization in Modern German and Old English
Penelope Thompson
(
University of Edinburgh)

Learning morphophonemic alternations: effects of Naturalness and Frequency
Dinah Baer-Henney & Ruben van de Vijver
(
University of Potsdam)

Naughty or nice? or: Why Swedish and Dutch are well-behaved Germanic languages
Katalin Balogné Bérces & Daniel Huber
(PPKE University, Université de Rennes 2
)

Acquisition and the Complexity of Phonemes and Inventories
Julian Bradfield
(
University of Edinburgh)

Why a constraint *rj is not enough
Silke Hamann
(
University of Duesseldorf)

Lexical diffusion of gradual phonetic changes: evidence from Forest Enets
Olesya Khanina & Andrey Shluinsky
(
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Phonological Variation from Constraint Demotion: Vestige Theory
Andrew Kostakis 
(
Indiana University)

[uj] or [wi]: that’s the question
Violeta Martínez-Paricio & Francese Torres-Tamarit
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Stop contrasts in an obsolescent language: an acoustic study of Scottish Gaelic
Claire Nance & Jane Stuart-Smith
(University of Glasgow
)

Contrast Preservation Theory and the Germanic Sound Laws
Roland Noske
(Université Lille3 / STL)

When the Autosegmental Theory Fails, Call for a Domain!
Cédric Patin
(
STL, UMR 8163 - CNRS/Université Lille 3)

Acquisition and diachronic developments in the scope of phonological generalizations
Erica Ross
(University of Cambridge
)

From syntax to phonology: phi and phases
Bridget Samuels
(University of Maryland)

Is This Microvariation? Towards a Typology of Alemannic Quantity Systems
Guido Seiler
(University of Freiburg)
 Mikołaj Kruszewski in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel Silverman
(SJSU)
Phonology knows about lexical categories
Jennifer Smith
(UNC Chapel Hill)
Unnaturalness in phonology
Márton Sóskuthy
(University of Edinburgh)