You can download a pdf version of the program for the Main session here, of the program for the Workshop here, and of the whole abstract booklet here.
WORKSHOP: EXCEPTIONALITY IN PHONOLOGY
(27th January 2015, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Program
Tuesday, January 27th
| 9.15-10.00 | Registration | |
| 10.00-10.15 | Opening remarks | |
| 10.15-11.00 | Invited speaker Kie Zuraw (UCLA) | Polarized exceptions: extreme bimodal distributions of exceptional words |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee break | |
| 11.45-12.15 | Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros (University of Auckland) | Exceptional nasal-stop inventories |
| 12.15-12.45 | Amanda Rysling (U Mass Amherst) and Maria Gouskova (New York University) | A rule with exceptions or a minor rule? Polish revisited |
| 12.45-13.15 | Katherine Hout and Eric Bakovic (UC San Diego) | Two approaches to exceptionality in Mushunguli (Somali Chizigula) |
| 13.15-15.00 | Lunch | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Peter Rebrus (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Péter Szigetvri (Eötvös Loránd University) | Diminutives: Exceptions to the exceptions |
| 15.30-16.00 | Claire Moore-Cantwell and Joe Pater (U Mass Amherst) | Gradient exceptionality in Maximum Entropy Grammar with lexically specific constraints |
| 16.00-16.30 | Eric Bakovic (UC San Diego) | Exceptionality in Spanish stress |
| 16.30-17.00 | General discussion | |
| 17.00 | Coffee |
MAIN CONFERENCE
(28-30th January 2015, Universitat de Barcelona)
Aula Magna, Edifici Històric
Program
Wednesday, January 28th
| 8.45-9.15 | Registration | |
| 9.15-9.30 | Opening remarks | |
| 9.30-10.30 | Invited speaker Paul de Lacy (Rutgers University) | The theory of Generative evidence |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Nancy Kula (University of Essex) and Bettina Braun (Universität Konstanz) | The mental representation of ternary spreading: How are derived tones processed? |
| 11.30-12.00 | Siri Moen Gjersøe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Downstep and phonological phrases in Kikuyu |
| 12.00-12.30 | Jeroen Breteler (Universiteit van Amsterdam) | Metrical tone shift and spread in Harmonic Serialism |
| 12.30-13.00 | John Joseph Perry (University of Cambridge) | Cyclically conditioned prosodic constituency in Gyalsumdo and beyond |
| 13.00-15.00 | Lunch | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) and Andrew Nevins (University College of London) | Undergoers are harmony sources: Maintaining iterative harmony in Oroqen dialects |
| 15.30-16.00 | Kevin Ryan (Harvard University) | Weak triggers and gang effects in Sanskrit retroflex harmony |
| 16.00-16.30 | Eva Zimmermann and Jochen Trommer (Universität Leipzig) | Exocentric Mutation as argument for Generalized Nonlinear Affixation |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break | |
| 17.00-17.30 | Laurence Voeltzel (Université de Nantes) | Preaspiration of singletons in Faroese |
| 17.30-18.00 | Sławomir Zdziebko (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski) | Polish palatalizations as element addition |
| 18.00-18.30 | Birgit Alber (Università di Verona) | Dialectal variation and typological properties |
Thursday, January 29th
| 9.00-9.30 | Savithry Namboodiripad, Marc Garellek and Eric Bakovic (UC San Diego) | Moraic geminates in Malayalam: Evidence from minimal word effects and loanword adaptation |
| 9.30-10.00 | Mathilde Hutin and Samantha Ruvoletto (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) | For the importance of fine-grained phonetic detail in phonology |
| 10.00-10.30 | Giorgio Magri (CNRS, Université Paris 8) | Idempotency and the early acquisition of phonotactics |
| 10.30-11.00 | Evan-Gary Cohen (Tel-Aviv University) | Phoneme consistency vs. lexical frequency in Hebrew rhotic acquisition |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30-12.00 | Paul Boersma (Universiteit van Amsterdam) | OCP and Line-Crossing Constraint as aids to word segmentation |
| 12.00-12.30 | Silke Hamann and David W. L. Li (Universiteit van Amsterdam) | Diachronic changes in loanword adaptation: Loan doublets in Cantonese |
| 12.30-13.00 | Ross Godfrey (University of Toronto) | Morphologically conditioned lengthening as a processing effect |
| 13.00-15.30 | Poster Session & Lunch | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Michael Dow (Université de Montréal) | Issues in unifying nasal vowel markedness |
| 16.00-16.30 | Benjamin Storme (MIT) | Closed Syllable Vowel Laxing: A strategy to enhance coda consonant place contrasts |
| 16.30-17.00 | Christina Bjorndahl (Cornell University, CMU) | The cross-linguistic phonological and phonetic identity of /v/ |
| 17.00-17.30 | Coffee break | |
| 17.30-18.00 | Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) | Pre-Classical Prevarication in Latin Feet: Stratal synchronic structure and discretionary diachronic development |
| 18.00-18.30 | Shih-Chi Yeh (National Kaohsiung Normal University) | Sonority-driven stress in Paiwan: Phonological or phonetic factors? |
| 18.30-19.00 | Ben Hermans (Meertens Institute & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | On the variable parsing of long vowels |
| 20.30 | Conference dinner |
Friday, January 30th
| 9.30-10.00 | Marko Simonovic (Universiteit Utrecht) | Surface bases and Lexical conservatism. The case of the Serbo-Croatian -ova- |
| 10.00-10.30 | Gretchen Kern (MIT) | Syntactically unjustified morphs and other strategies for hiatus resolution in Irish prepositions |
| 10.30-11.00 | Adam Albright (MIT) | Faithfulness to non-contrastive phonetic properties in Lakhota |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30-12.00 | Heather Newell (UQAM) | Structural Sensitivity in Phonology: Phonological Persistence |
| 12.00-12.30 | Jonathan Bucci (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis-BCL UMR 7320) | Vowel reduction and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico induced by stress: The virtual length analysis |
| 12.30-12.45 | Break | |
| 12.45-13.45 | Invited speaker Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute & Leiden University) | Where syntax and phonology touch. A representational view of the interface |
| 13.45-14.00 | Closing remarks and Business meeting |
POSTER SESSION
Thursday, January 29th, 13.00-15.30h, during lunch time
*Poster boards are 95 cm (wide) x 140 cm (high) and pins will be provided for hanging. Participants will be able to hang their posters from Wednesday, January 28th.