The program can be downloaded as a PDF file here. The abstracts for all the talks and posters can be downloaded as a single PDF here or individually below.
Interspersed throughout the program are talks and events associated with the NSF-sponsored Workshop, Bridging the gap between phonological theory and speech disorders. If you want to see all of them in one place instead, click here.
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Friday, September 15
Registration open: 9-10 am (10 Washington Place), 1-2:30 pm (Greenberg Lounge), 3:30-5:00 pm (Greenberg Lounge)
| Tutorial sessions 10 Washington Place, 104 |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Sublexical Learner Michael Becker (Stony Brook University)This tutorial is for people who work on morphophonological alternations, either in natural languages or in artificial language experiments. We will review the Sublexical Phonology approach to mappings between surface forms, and see how to implement such analyses at sublexical.phonologist.org. Bring your dataset, text editor, and browser. |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Ultrasound Biofeedback Doug Whalen (The Graduate Center, CUNY) & Tara McAllister (New York University)This tutorial is part of the workshop “Bridging the gap between phonological theory and speech disorders.” Doug Whalen will provide an overview of current technologies and methods for ultrasound imaging for speech. Tara McAllister will discuss the use of ultrasound biofeedback to study speech learning in both typical speakers and individuals with speech disorders. |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | VoiceSauce Jianjing Kuang (University of Pennsylvania)In this tutorial, we will introduce how to use VoiceSauce – the state-of-the-art program for voice analysis. We will first go over the background of voice quality and introduce the voice measures in the program; and then discuss in depth how to obtain accurate values for voice analysis; and finally discuss how these voice measures apply to different phonation types across languages. If time permits, we can also briefly discuss cases beyond normal speech. Download the program here: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/spapl/voicesauce/ |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Lunch break |
| General session #1 (chair: Lisa Davidson) Greenberg lounge |
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| 2:00 – 2:30 | Nasal harmony and nasalization in Mostec Slovenian Mia Sara Misic, Zhiyao Che, Fernanda Lara Peralta (University of Toronto), Karmen Kenda-Jež (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) & Peter Jurgec (University of Toronto) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Representing a four-way contrast: Nepali, voiced aspirates and laryngeal realism Martha Schwarz, Morgan Sonderegger & Heather Goad (McGill University) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Perceptual retuning targets features Karthik Durvasula & Scott Nelson (Michigan State University) |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Poster session #1 (coffee served) |
| Invited speaker (chair: Maria Gouskova) | |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | In Favor of [Fortis]: Evidence from Setswana and Sebirwa Elizabeth Zsiga (Georgetown University) |
| Special workshop event: Graduate student mixer and panel Kimball Hall |
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| 6:30 – 8:30 | Career opportunities for students of linguistics: Communication sciences and disorders |
Saturday, September 16
Registration open: 8:30-9:00 am, 10:00-11:30 am, 2:30-4:00 pm
| General session #2 (chair: Michael Becker) Lipton Hall |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation Brian Hsu (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) & Karen Jesney (Carleton University) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Previous experience constraints adaptation: Phonotactics and speaker language background Thomas Denby & Matt Goldrick (Northwestern University) |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Poster session #2 (coffee served) |
| Workshop session (chair: Susie Levi) | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Phonological markedness and extraprosodicity as predictors of morphological errors in SLI Öner Özçelik (Indiana University Bloomington) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lexical phonological networks in Down Syndrome: An initial syllable similarity priming task with an eye-tracking method Jessica Ramos-Sanchez & Natalia Arias-Trejo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch break |
| General session #3 (chair: Colin Wilson) Lipton Hall |
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| 1:30 – 2:00 | Unnatural and lexically gradient phonology Gasper Begus (Harvard University) & Aleksei Nazarov (University of Huddersfield) |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | T-orders across categorical and probabilistic constraint-based phonology Arto Anttila (Stanford University) & Giorgio Magri (CNRS, University of Paris 8) |
| 2:30 – 4:00 | Poster session #3 (coffee served) |
| General session #4 (chair: Karen Jesney) | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Learning constraints for morphophonological classification Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Transparadigmatic output-output correspondence Nicholas Rolle (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Workshop invited speaker (chair: Tara McAllister) | |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Finding abstract representations of sound structure Adam Buchwald (New York University) |
| 6:30 – 8:30 | Conference reception 10 Washington Place, 104 |
Sunday, September 17
Registration open: 8:30-9:00 am
| General session #5 (chair: Jason Shaw) Lipton Hall |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Underlearning in the face of opacity: The case of Bengali vowel harmony Traci Nagle (Indiana University, Bloomington) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Directionality effects via distance-based penalty scaling Sharon Inkelas & Eric Wilbanks (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Evidence for prominence asymmetries and syncopated rhythm in Medumba Kathryn Franich (University of Chicago) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break (coffee served) |
| General session #6 (chair: Juliet Stanton) | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Substantive bias in phonotactic learning: Positional extension of an obstruent voicing contrast Eleanor Glewwe (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Consequences of high vowel deletion for syllabification in Japanese Jason Shaw (Yale University) & Shigeto Kawahara (The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies) |
| Invited speaker (chair: Gillian Gallagher) | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | ATR Harmony: new typological patterns and diagnostics Sharon Rose (University of California, San Diego) |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Business meeting 10 Washington Place, 104 |
Poster session #1 (Friday 3:30-5:00)
- No metathesis in harmonic serialism
Chikako Takahashi (Stony Brook University) - Logical foundations of syllable representations
Kristina Strother-Garcia (University of Delaware) & Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) - Vowel nasalization in Scottish Gaelic: The search for paradigm uniformity effects in fine-grained phonetic detail
Donald Alasdair Morrison (University of Manchester) - Phylogeny in phonology: How Tai sound systems encode their past
Rikker Dockum (Yale University) - Reduction in duration as a cause for lenition
Uriel Cohen Priva & Emily Gleason (Brown University) - Complexity and naturalness biases in phonotactics: Hayes and White (2013) revisited
Brandon Prickett (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - Allophonic variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects
Suyeon Yun & Yoonjung Kang (University of Toronto, Scarborough) - Exceptional non-triggers in Bijago
Katherine Hout (University of California, San Diego) - First-order definability as a constraint on phonological structure
Adam Jardine (Rutgers University) - Stress avoidance in hiatus
Anya Lunden (College of William & Mary) - Soft typology arises from learning bias even with markedness hierarchies
Charlie O’Hara (University of Southern California) - Categorical patterns, phonetic integration and within-category variability in the recognition of spoken words in a second language
Félix Desmeules-Trudel & Tania Zamuner (University of Ottawa) - Gradient and categorical effects in native and non-native nasal-rhotic coordination
Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni & Jeffrey Steele (University of Toronto) - The contribution of functional load on children’s phonological development
Margaret Cychosz (University of California, Berkeley) & Susan Kalt (Roxbury Community College) - Does SAE have /flap/? Evidence from Canadian Raising and vowel durations
Bethany Dickerson (Michigan State University) - National Science Foundation Grants: Documenting Endangered Languages
Colleen Fitzgerald (National Science Foundation) - National Science Foundation Grants: Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Colleen Fitzgerald (National Science Foundation)
Poster session #2 (Saturday 10:00-11:30)
- Domain final lengthening is pre-pausal lengthening
Cara Feldscher (Michigan State University) - Stochastic harmonic grammars as random utility models
Edward Flemming (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Variability in French prominence: Evidence for weight sensitivity
Jeffrey Lamontagne, Heather Goad & Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University) - Lookahead effect in reduplication: Serial vs. parallel OT
Wei Wei (University of Southern California) - Workshop: Production of the /t/-/k/ contrast in children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing
Allison Johnson (University of Maryland, College Park), Patrick Reidy (University of Texas at Dallas), Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Danielle Revai (University of Wisconsin, Madison) & Jan Edwards (University of Maryland, College Park) - Workshop: Quantifying complexity of children’s tongue contours using ultrasound imaging
Heather Campbell (New York University), Doug Whalen (The Graduate Center, CUNY) & Tara McAllister (New York University) - Recursive words in the prefixal field of Kaqchikel (Mayan)
Ryan Bennett (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence
Yifan Yang (University of Southern California) - A maximum entropy typological model
Gasper Begus (Harvard University) - The labio-coronal fricative in Setswana: Its features and articulation
Jonathan Havenhill, Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer & Stacy Petersen (Georgetown University) - Minimum description length subsumes free ride effects in UR learning
Ezer Rasin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Roni Katzir (Tel Aviv University) - A set-theoretic typology of phonological map interaction
Eric Bakovic (University of California, San Diego) & Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton University) - Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec
Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig University) - Phonological koinéization in Kathmandu Tibetan
Christopher Geissler (Yale University) - Phonotactic and phonetic context in the perception of onset nasality in Taiwanese
Sheng-Fu Wang (New York University) - National Science Foundation Grants: Documenting Endangered Languages
Colleen Fitzgerald (National Science Foundation) - National Science Foundation Grants: Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Colleen Fitzgerald (National Science Foundation)
Poster session #3 (Saturday 2:30-4:00)
- Production planning and directionality in external sandhi
Jeffrey Lamontagne (McGill University) & Francisco Torreira (McGill University, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) - A theory of phonologically-derived environment effects
Benjamin Storme (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Drawing the krtań: Laryngeal alternations in Polish
Andrew Lamont (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - Is lexical tone like a consonant? An ultrasound investigation of Bangkok Thai
Sarah Johnson & Ryan Shosted (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - On syllable weight and antepenultimate stress in Spanish
Martín Fuchs (Yale University) - No crossing constraint: Evidence from vowel harmony
Öner Özçelik & Rex Sprouse (Indiana University) - Workshop: The nature of speech perception in children with phonological deficits: Evidence from event-related potentials (ERP)
Kathryn Cabbage (Brigham Young University) & Tiffany Hogan (MGH Institute of Health Professions) - Workshop: Analyzing adult perception of stop consonant voicing in two-year-old children’s speech
Elaine Hitchcock (Montclair State University) & Laura L. Koenig (Haskins Laboratories, Adelphi University) - The role of bottom-up information in featural representation
Ildikó Emese Szabó (New York University) - Rorövovarorsospoproråkoketot: Language games and Swedish phonology
Samuel Andersson (Yale University) - Automatic detection of extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech
Christian DiCanio (SUNY Buffalo), Wei-Rong Chen (Haskins Laboratories), Joshua Benn (SUNY Buffalo), Jonathan Amith (Gettysburg College) & Rey Castillo García (Secretaria de Educación Pública, Estado de Guerrero, Mexico) - Vowel identity but not consonant identity emerges in vulgar English compounds
Anne-Michelle Tessier (Simon Fraser University) & Michael Becker (Stony Brook University) - Ambisyllabic consonants as foot-medial onsets
Karthik Durvasula & Bobby Felster (Michigan State University) - Acquiring opaque phonological interactions using minimum description length
Ezer Rasin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Iddo Berger (Tel Aviv University), Nur Lan (Tel Aviv University) & Roni Katzir (Tel Aviv University) - Learning within- and between-word variation in probabilistic OT grammars
Aleksei Nazarov (University of Huddersfield)