Previous meetings

Fri Nov 26 04	Yvan Rose. 2003. Place Specification and Segmental Distribution in the Acquisition of Word-Final Consonant Syllabification. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics/La revue canadienne de linguistique 48 (3/4), pp. 409-435. Presenter: Helene Nordgård Andreassen. See abstract here.   *
Fri Nov 19 04	Berit Anne Bals presents her research on the acquisition of Sami Consonant Gradation by children.  *
Fri Nov 12 04	Reports from the pitch accent project: Ove Lorentz: Stød Basis and Toneme Basis. Patrik Bye: Remarks on the Origin of Stød. Bruce Morén: Thoughts on Danish Stød.   *
Fri Nov 5 04	John J. McCarthy. 2004. Headed Spans and Autosegmental Spreading. Ms. Presenter: Martin Krämer. The paper can be downloaded from ROA.   *
Fri Oct 29 04	Patrik Bye. 2004. Biaspectual representations in phonology. Ms. Presenter: Sylvia Blaho.  *
Fri Oct 22 04	Curt Rice: Report from the morphophonology project.  *
Fri Oct 15 04	Bruce Morén and Tore Nesset: Report from the project on Velar Softening in Slavic   *
Fri Oct 1 04	Patrik Bye (2004) Vowel balance and vowel harmony in Central Scandinavian. Paper presented at Fuost konferensn um övdalskų, Älvdalen, June 19, 2004.  *
Mon Sep 20 04	Scandinavian Tone: Patrik Bye: Evolutionary typology and Scandinavian pitch accent. Ove Lorentz: Tonal variation in Scandinavian. Bruce Morén: Thoughts on Peninsular Scandinavian tone accent.  *
Fri Sep 10 04	Bruce Morén. 2004. An Alternative to Paradigm-based Verbal Inflection in Hungarian: Back to the Basics.   *
Fri Sep 3 04	Rebrus, Péter & Törkenczy, Miklós. 2005. Uniformity and contrast in the Hungarian verbal paradigm. In Paradigms in Phonological Theory, ed. by Laura J. Downing, T. A. Hall, and Renate Raffelsiefen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Presenter: Curt Rice.  *
Mon Aug 30 04	Martin Krämer presented his current research.   *
Tue May 18 04	Bruce Morén. Accounting for Serbian Consonant-Vowel Interactions and Alternations Using the Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry. Paper to be presented at the 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 20 - 22 May 2004.  *
Tue Apr 27 04	Phonology Research Group Meeting   *
Tue Mar 23 04	Phonology Research Group Meeting  *
Tue Mar 16 04	Phonology Research Group Meeting  *
Tue Feb 24 04	William Croft and Marilyn Vihman. Ms. 2003. Radical Templatic Phonology and phonological development. University of Manchester and University of Wales at Bangor. PDF here.  *
Tue Feb 17 04	Richard Ogden. 2003. The Phonetics of Agreement and Disagreement. Ms. University of York.  *
Tue Feb 3 04	Draga Zec. 2003. Prosodic Weight. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: CUP.  *
Tue Jan 27 04	Stuart Davis. 2003. The Controversy over Geminates and Syllable Weight. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: CUP.   *
Tue Jan 20 04	Paul Kiparsky. 2003. Syllables and Moras in Arabic. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: CUP.   *

^* Not translated, showing original language







Meetings 2003

• December 4, 2003
  Michael Kenstowicz. 2002. Paradigmatic Uniformity and Contrast. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42.
  
  
• November 19, 2003
  John J. McCarthy. 2003. Richness of the Base and the Determination of Underlying Representations. PDF file available from ROA.
  
  
• November 12, 2003
  Harry van der Hulst. 2003. Molecular structure of phonological segments. Ms.
  
  
• October 29, 2003
  1. Dresher, Bezalel Elan. 2001. Contrast And Asymmetries In Inventories. Talk presented at the Asymmetry Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2001.
  2. Dresher, Bezalel Elan, & Xi Zhang. 2000. Contrast in Manchu Vowel Systems. Talk presented at the 1st International Conference on Manchu Tungus Studies (ICMTS 1), University of Bonn, August 2000.
  
  
• October 15, 2003
  Bruce Morén. 2003. The Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry. The Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 15.
  
  
• October 8, 2003
  Kick-off Conference roundup
  
  
• September 24, 2003
  Philippe Ségéral and Tobias Scheer. 1999. The Coda Mirror. Ms. Version 3,1.
  
  
• September 17, 2003
  Nick Clements. 2003. Feature Theory. Lecture notes from the 2003 LSA Summer Linguistic Institute, Michigan State University, 30 June-8 August 2003.
  
  
• September 10, 2003
  Donca Steriade. ms. Lexical conservatism and the notion base of affixation.
  
  
• September 3, 2003
  Stuart Davis and Mi-Hui Cho. 2003. The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: an alignment approach with typological implications. Linguistics 41–4, 607–652.
  
  SPRING 2003 SCHEDULE
  
  The topic of most of the papers we read together this academic year, was vowel reduction and segment strength, but we did make some exceptions to explore other interesting developments.
  
  
• May 20, 2003
  Linda Lombardi. 2003. Markedness and the typology of epenthetic vowels. To appear in proceedings of Linguistics and Phonetics 2002. PDF file available from ROA.
  
  
• May 13, 2003
  Katherine M. Crosswhite. 2000. Sonority-Driven Reduction. Ms. May 2000. Presented at BLS 26, Feb. 18-21, 2000; to appear in proceedings of BLS 26. PDF file available from ROA.
  
  
• May 6, 2003
  Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2001. Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition, and contrast. In Bybee, J. and P. Hopper (eds) Frequency effects and the emergence of linguistic structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  
  
• April 29, 2003
  Elizabeth Hume. 2003. Predicting Metathesis: the ambiguity/attestation model. Draft, v.3, Jan. 2003.
  
  
• April 8, 2003
  Lindblom, Björn. 2000. Developmental origins of adult phonology: the interplay between phonetic emergents and evolutionary adaptations; in Kohler, Diehl, Engstrand, Kingston (eds): Studies in speech communication and language development, dedicated to Björn Lindblom on his 65th birthday. Phonetica 57.
  
  
• April 1, 2003
  Luigi Burzio. 2002. Phonology and Phonetics of English Stress and Vowel Reduction. In H. Park & A. Agwuele (eds.) TLS 2002.
  
  
• March 25, 2003
  John Harris and Geoff Lindsey. 2000. Vowel patterns in mind and sound. In Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr & Gerry Docherty (eds.), Phonological knowledge: conceptual and empirical issues, 185-205. Oxford University Press.
  
  
• March 18, 2003
  Robert Kirchner and Eleni Varelas. A Cue-Based Approach to the Phonotactics of Totonac. Paper presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, March 23, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta.
  
  
• March 11, 2003
  Levelt, Clara, and Ruben van de Vijver (to appear Sept. 2003). "Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars". In R. Kager, J. Pater, W. Zonneveld, (eds.), Fixing Priorities: Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. Also available here
  
  
• March 4, 2003
  Janet Grijzenhout & Sandra Joppen-Hellwig. 2002. The Lack of Onsets in German Child Phonology. In: Ingeborg Lasser (ed.), The Process of Language Acquisition. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.
  
  
• February 24, 2003
  Maria Gouskova. 2002. Relational Hierarchies in OT.
  L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 113-126. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  
  
• February 18, 2003
  Małgorzata Kul, one of our guests from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, told us about recent developments in Natural Phonology.
  
  Background reading:
  Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. Challenges for Natural Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century: A personal view. In Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Weckwerth (eds.) Future Challenges for Natural Linguistics. Lincom Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.
  
  
• February 11, 2003
  John J. McCarthy. (Forthcoming.) On targeted constraints and cluster neutralisation.
  
  
• February 4, 2003
  Colin Wilson. 2001. "Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints. Phonology 18." 147-197.
  
  
• January 28, 2003
  Patrik Bye presented work in progress on "Grade alternation in bisyllabic nouns in Inari Saami and Abstract Declarative Phonology".
  
  
• January 22, 2003
  Carlos Gussenhoven & Rene Kager. 2001. Introduction: phonetics in phonology. Phonology 18, 1-6.
  Edward Flemming. 2001. Scalar and categorical phenomena in a unified model of phonetics and phonology. Phonology 18, 7-44.
  
  FALL 2002 SCHEDULE
  
  The topic for the papers that we read this semester, was vowel reduction and segment strength in general.
  
  
• November 26, 2002
  J. Barnes. 2002. "Domain-initial strengthening and the phonetics and phonology of positional neutralization." NELS 2002.
  
  
• November 19, 2002
  Berit Anne Bals presented some results of her research, indicating that "Labials are Prominent in Child language."
  
  
• November 12, 2002
  Jennifer L. Smith. 2002. Toward a Compositional Treatment of Positional Constraints: The Case of Positional Augmentation. ROA-550, Oct 2002. To appear in A. Carpenter et al., eds. Papers in Optimality Theory II. UMOP. 33 pp
  
  
• November 5, 2002
  Cheryl Zoll. 1998. Positional Asymmetries and Licensing. Ms MIT. ROA-282.
  
  
• October 29, 2002
  Ove Lorentz talked about "Positional Strength in Sámi and Saemien".
  
  
• October 22, 2002
  Jennifer L. Smith. 2000. "Prominence, Augmentation, and Neutralization in Phonology." BLS 26.
  
  
• October 16, 2002
  Birgit Alber. 2001. "Maximizing First Positions." In Caroline Féry, Antony Dubach Green & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), Proceedings of HILP5, 1-19, University of Potsdam.
  
  
• October 9, 2002
  Marc van Oostendorp. 1998. "Schwa in Phonological Theory." Glot 3.5.
  
  
• October 1, 2002
  Steriade cont.
  
  
• September 24, 2002
  Donca Steriade. In progress. "The Phonology of Perceptibility Effects: the P-map and its consequences for constraint organization." Ms., UCLA.
  
  
• September 18, 2002
  Helene Nordgaard Andreassen presented her project on French schwa.
  
  
• September 11, 2002
  Paul de Lacy. 2001. "Markedness in Prominent Positions." In Andrew Nevins (ed.) Proceedings of HUMIT, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
  
  
• August 27, 2002
  Katherine Crosswhite. "Motivating Reduction: The Constraint Set." Chapter 2 of her thesis Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. Routledge.
  
  

  
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