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Phonology in the 21st Century:
In Honour of Glyne Piggott

McGill University, May 7-9 mai 2011


Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott

Université McGill University
May 7-9 mai 2011

The conference will take place in the ballroom of Thomson House, 3650 McTavish St. Google map here.

L'atelier aura lieu dans la salle de bal de la Maison Thomson, 3650 rue McTavish.  Google cartes ici.


SATURDAY MAY 7 ~ SAMEDI 7 MAI

8:30-9:00 Registration/Inscription
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks/Remarques d'ouverture,
Christopher Manfredi, Dean of Arts, McGill University

Session 1 (Chair/Chaire: Heather Newell)

9:10-9:55 Invited Speaker/ Conférencière invitée:
Heather Goad, McGill University: Allophony and contrast without features: Laryngeal development in early grammars
9:55-10:25 Yvan Rose, Paul Pigott, and Doug Wharram, Memorial University of Newfoundland: Foot binarity in a syllable timed language: Degemination in Labrador Inuttut
10:25-10:55 Carrie Dyck, Memorial University of Newfoundland:  The unstressable vowel syndrome in Cayuga (Iroquoian)
10:55-11:15 Coffee Break/Pause café

Session 2 (Chair/Chaire: Chen Qu)

11:15-12:00 Invited Speaker/Conférencière invitée:
Kie Zuraw, University of California Los Angeles: Predicting Korean sai-siot
12:00-12:30 Scott Moisik, Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and John Esling, University of Victoria: The epilaryngeal articulator: A new conceptual tool for understanding lingual-laryngeal contrasts
12:30-2:10 Lunch

Session 3 (Chair/Chaire: Sasha Simonenko)

2:10-2:55

Invited Speaker/ Conférencière invitée:
Monik Charette, School of Oriental and African Studies: The mystery of the end of words

2:55-3:40 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Doug Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia (with  Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona & Jeff Mielke, University of Ottawa): From sequence frequencies to conditions in Bantu vowel harmony
3:40-4:10 Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock and Charles Reiss, Concordia University: Rotuman 'phase' distinctions and the architecture of the grammar
4:10-6:00 Poster Session/Wine & Cheese
(Session d'affiches / Vin et fromage)

Opening Remarks/Remarques díouverture:
Bernhard Schwarz, Chair, Department of Linguistics, McGill University

Kathleen Currie Hall, CUNY College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center: Phonological relationships: A probabilistic model

Daniel Currie Hall, Saint Mary's University: A non-unified account of labialized dorsals

John Jensen & Margaret Stong-Jensen, University of Ottawa: Sanskrit vowel hiatus

Hijo Kang, SUNY Stony Brook: Intervention of another grammar: A case study of variation in Korean vowel harmony

Loredana Andreea Kosa, University of Toronto: Tepehua and Totonac consonants: Contrastive hierarchy in action

Chloe Marshall, Katherine Rowley and Joanna Atkinson, City University London & DCAL Research Centre UCL: Phonology and the organisation of the signed language lexicon: Evidence from BSL

John Matthews, Chuo University: Emergent errors in advanced L2 phonology reveal impoverished underlying representations

Beata Moskal, University of Connecticut: License to round

Will Oxford, University of Toronto: A 'contrast shift' in the Cree continuum

Öner Özçelik, McGill University: Redefining the prosodic hierarchy

Tanya Slavin, University of Toronto and McGill University: Truncation, scope and morphosyntactic structure in the Oji-Cree verbal complex

Anne-Michelle Tessier, University of Alberta: Similarity constraints and contextual slips of the tongue: Questions of chickens and eggs

Hisao Tokizaki and Kuniya Nasukawa, Sapporo University & Tohoku Gakuin University: Tone in Chinese: Preserving tonal melody in strong positions

Guest of Honour/Invité d'honneur

6:10-6:20

Opening Remarks/Remarques díouverture:
Lisa Travis, McGill University

6:20-7:10 
Glyne Piggott, McGill University:  Some phonological consequences of post-syntactic movement

SUNDAY MAY 8 ~ DIMANCHE 8 MAI

Session 4 (Chair/Chaire: Tobin Skinner)

9:00-9:45 Invited Speaker/Conférencière invitée:
Keren Rice, University of Toronto: 'Excorporation' in a Dene (Athabaskan) language
9:45-10:30 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Larry Hyman, University of California Berkeley: Markedness, faithfulness, and the phonological typology of two-height tone systems
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break/Pause café

Session 5 (Chair/Chaire: Moti Lieberman)

10:50-11:35 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut: Phonological elements, vowel harmony, and locality
11:35-12:05 Jack Chambers, University of Toronto: Learning to love opacity: Dynamics of /ai/ raising
12:05-1:55 Lunch

Session 6 (Chair/Chaire: Öner Özçelik)

1:55-2:40 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Elan Dresher, University of Toronto: Is harmony limited to contrastive features?
2:40-3:10 Ross Godfrey, University of Toronto: Opaque intervention in Khalkha Mongolian vowel harmony
3:10-3:40 Sara Mackenzie, McGill University: Near-identity and laryngeal harmony
3:40-4:00 Coffee Break/Pause café

Session 7 (Chair/Chaire: Bethany Lochbihler)

4:00-4:45 Invited Speaker/Conférencière invitée:
Sharon Rose, University of California San Diego: Unexplored interface effects: How tone impacts affix position
4.45-5.15 Jackson Lee, University of Chicago: The (non-)blocking of non-TETU tonal overwriting in Cantonese attenuative reduplication
5:15-6:00 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Formally biased phonology
7:00-9:00 Banquet, Maison Thomson House Opening Remarks/Remarques d'ouverture:
Heather Goad and Michael Wagner, McGill University

MONDAY MAY 9 ~ LUNDI 9 MAI

Session 8 (Chair/Chaire: Mina Sugimura)

9:00-9:30 Marie-Héléne Côté, University of Ottawa: Liaison and affrication in Laurentian French
9:30-10:15 Invited Speaker/ Conférencier invité:
Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute: Liaison consonants are word-final
10:15-10:45 Lisa Cheng and Laura Downing, Leiden University and ZAS Berlin: Prosodic domains do not match spell out domains
10:45-11:05 Coffee Break/Pause cafè

Session 9 (Chair/Chaire: Tanya Slavin)

11:05-11:50 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice) & Markéta Ziková (Masaryk University of Brno),  The Coda Mirror v2
11:50-12:20 Lev Blumenfeld, Carleton University: Russian yers and prosodic structure
12:20-12:50 Bethany Lochbihler, McGill University: Domains of application in Ojibwe phonology
12:50-1:35 Invited Speaker/Conférencier invité:
Michael Wagner, McGill University: The locality of allomorph selection and production planning

Closing Remarks/Remarques de fermeture:
Keren Rice, University of Toronto

1:35-3:00 Pizza Lunch, Maison Thomson House

 


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