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Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology
Area: Phonology
Location: Indiana University Bloomington - Jordan Hall Room A100
Date: Friday 9 October - Sunday 11 October 2009
Time: 3pm Friday - 1pm Sunday
Registration Fee: $10 Students, $20 Faculty and Postdocs
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iulcsecy/McWop15/
Contact: Indiana University Linguistics Club
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Continental Workshop On Phonology (McWop) will be held here at Indiana University next weekend. This is an informal gathering of researchers working in all areas of phonology broadly defined.
| Friday October 9th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Features/Gestures (Phonetic and Phonological analyses) | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Karen Lichtman (University of Illinois) | Invariant Gestures?
Two Studies of Tongue Tip Gestures for Coda /t/ |
| 3:30-4:00 | Yi-Jen Huang (Michigan State University) | Loanword Adaptation on Laryngeal Features |
| 4:00-4:30 | Elizabeth Casserly (Indiana University) | Spread Glottis in Faroese: Realization, Neutralization and Opacity |
| 4:30-4:50 | Break | |
| 4:50-5:20 | Melissa Witcombe (Indiana University) | Jot Reflexes in Croatian |
| 5:20-5:50 | Justin Glover (Indiana University) | An Optimality-Theoretic
Account of Dorsal Obstruent Alternations in Kranichfeld German |
| 5:50-6:20 | Jose Hualde, Michael Blasingame, Marianna Nadeu (University of Illinois), and Michael Simonet (University of Arizona) | Effect of the Preceding Segment on Spanish Spirantization |
| Saturday October 10th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Similarity | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Kristin Van Engen (Northwestern), Susanne Brouwer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Lauren Calandruccio (CUNY) and Ann Bradlow (Northwestern) | Speech-in-speech Perception: Linguistic
Familiarity and Similarity |
| 9:30-10:00 | Terrin Tamati (Indiana University) | Perceptual Similarity of
Unfamiliar Regional Dialects: Some Preliminary Findings |
| 10:00-10:30 | Melissa Baese-Berk, Kristin Van Engen, Mary Ann Walter, and Ann Bradlow (Northwestern) | Perceptual Similarity of Language and Accents |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break | |
| Modeling | ||
| 10:50-11:20 | Daniel Dinnsen, Judith Gierut, Michele Morrisette, Christopher Green, (Indiana University) and Ashley Farris-Trimble (University of Iowa) | Chickens Kick 'n Chew But Tigers Do Too: The Interacting Error Pattern Problem |
| 11:20-11:50 | Rebecca Morley (The Ohio State University) | Natural Interactions and the Limits of Unnaturalness |
| 11:20-11:50 | Business Meeting | |
| 12:20-1:50 | Lunch | |
| Intonation | ||
| 1:50-2:20 | Danielle Reindl (Purdue University) | Prosodic Features of a Spanish Ludling |
| 2:20-2:50 | Nicholas Henriksen (Indiana University) | Early and Late Rises
in Manchego Peninsular Spanish yes/no Questions |
| 2:50-3:20 | Kenji Yoshida (Indiana University) | Peak Timing and Downtrend
of F0 of Ibukijima Shiki Types and their Phonological Representations |
| 3:20-3:40 | Break | |
| Chinese Tone | ||
| 3:40-4:10 | Wang Xiaomei (Heidelberg University, Ohio and Tianjin Normal University) | An OT Account of the Disyllabic Tone Sandhi in Ei Language |
| 4:10-4:40 | John Scott (Indiana University) | A Positional Markedness
Approach to Sandhi Tone Shift in Chaoyang Chinese |
| 4:40-5:10 | Yeh Chia-Hsin (Michigan State University) | Emergence of a New
Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Nominal Reduplications |
| 5:10-5:40 | Eric Baucom (Indiana University) and Jon Gartner (University of North Carolina) | Effects of Lexical Entries on Tone Perception |
| 5:40-6:00 | Break | |
| Tone | ||
| 6:00-6:30 | Kristopher Ebarb (Indiana University) and Michael Marlo (University of Maryland) | An Overview of Nyala Verbal Tonology |
| 6:30-7:00 | Kristine Hildebrandt (SIU Edwardsville) | Gurung (Tibeto-Burman) at the Tonogenetic Crossroads |
| Party | ||
| Sunday October 11th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Syllable-related matters | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky) | Transcription: The Phonetics-Phonology Interface |
| 9:30-10:00 | Christiane Kaden (Indiana University) | An OT Account of
Hiatus Avoidance and Compensatory Lengthening in Kinyamwezi |
| 10:00-10:30 | Rebekah Baglini (University of Chicago) | Modeling Variation and Change in Raddoppiamento Sintattico |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50-11:20 | Wei Zhang (Purdue University) | Huidong La-mi and Fanqi Languages in Chinese |
| 11:20-11:50 | Dan Karvonen (University of Minnesota) | The Moraic Status of Coda Consonants in Finnish |
| 11:50-12:20 | Erin Rusaw and Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois) |
Learning Constraints that Oppose Native Phonotactics from Brief Experience |
Colloquia and Talks
Speaker: Mark Steyvers
Location: Psychology (PY) - room 101
Date: Monday 12 October
Time: 4:00pm
Abstract will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
More information about the Cognitive Science Colloquium Series is available on the series information page.
Speaker: Julie Auger
Location: Ballantine Hall (BH) - room 144
Date: Friday 16 October
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm
The variety of Picard that is spoken in the Vimeu region of France contains three different forms that mean something like 'it' and correspond to French a: a, ch', and a null form. These forms are illustrated below:
I. a sra point d'trop complitch trouvo ('it won't be too difficult to find')
II. Est point ais ('it's not easy')
III. Ichi, ichi ch'est l'Vimeu, oui ('Here, here it is Vimeu, yes')
Such a richness of forms raises many questions concerning their origin and their function. Are the different forms allomorphs of a single pronoun? Do they occur in free variation? If not, what determines which form is used: phonological, semantic, or syntactic factors? Is the alternation between them a result of language contact between French-like ch' and Picard form a? In this lecture, I will provide elements of answer based on an analysis based on an extensive corpus of written and oral data.
Speaker: Charles Lin
Location: Ballantine Hall (BH) - room 105
Date: Friday 16 October
Time: 3:45pm - 5:45pm
In this talk, I discuss the syntactic and contextual issues in the processing of Chinese relative clauses. Experiments of sentence comprehension will be reviewed to show that the structural position of a relativized gap plays an important role in the processing of Chinese relative clauses. In addition, I present evidence demonstrating that the thematic patterns in the contexts prior to relative clauses can be a source of bias. Contexts themselves should, therefore, be constrained in the examination of structural issues in head-final relative-clause processing.
Fall Semester Discussion Groups
Location: Memorial Hall (MM) - Room 401 (Phonetics/Computer Lab)
Date: Friday 16 October
Time: 12pm-1:30pm
Contact: Yoshihisa Kitagawa
NEXT MEETING: Discussion will center around Angelika Kratzer's 1996 paper Severing the External Argument from its Verb. Leslie Gabriele will lead the discussion.
Syntax Reading Group meet this semester on fridays from 12-1:30pm in the Linguistics Seminar Room (MM 317a). Some topics loosely decided on are "phases" and "small v." If you would like to participate in the discussion, please mail Dr. Kitagawa to request a copy of the next reading.
Location: Memorial Hall (MM) - Room 401 (Phonetics/Computer Lab)
Date: Tuesday 13 October
Time: 11am
Website: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/wiki/CL_Lunch
Contact: Markus Dickinson
NEXT MEETING: Wren Thornton will speak on using the Joshua System for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We are continuing a CL discussion group this semester, a forum for presentations and discussions. Anyone who has work-in-progress (at any stage) can present their work in this informal setting and receive feedback. It's a good opportunity to get outside perspective and input from colleagues on current project, to give such input on other people's project, and also just to keep up-to-date about the different types of interesting CL-related work being done here at IU.
Location: Memorial Hall (MM) - Room 401 (Phonetics/Computer Lab)
Date: Friday 9 October
Time: 10-11am
Contact: Sandra Kübler
The two primary discussion topics for this semester are dependency parsing and the parsing of Minimalist grammars. Readings will cover dependency parsing first and last, with an excursion into Minimalist parsing in October.
The next session will cover the first three sections from Sandra Kübler's latest book, co-authored with Joachim Nivre and Ryan McDonald.
If you are interested in joining the discussion, please contact Sandra Kübler to request online access to the readings.
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Information about a wide range of conferences can be found in the Linguistics Calendar Conferences Supplement, which is currently being updated. Please check this link early next week for a list of opportunities for conference attendance and paper submission in areas of interest to IU Linguists.