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All sessions in the Claude T. Bissell Building (BL), Room 205, 140 St. George Street (entrance from the second floor).
For more information, write to Peter Avery.
Friday, February 7, 2003 |
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| 3:00-3:30 | REGISTRATION |
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SESSION I |
VOWEL HARMONY |
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| 3:30-3:50 | Chiara Frigeni & Daniel Currie Hall, U of Toronto | A head-dependent account of Shona vowel height harmony |
| 3:50-4:10 | Sara Mackenzie & B. Elan Dresher, U of Toronto | Contrast and phonological activity in the Nez perce vowel system |
| 4:10-4:30 | Roderic F. Casali & Myles Leitch, SIL | Underspecification revisited: [-ATR] dominance and default [+ATR] in Bantu C |
| 4:30-4:50 | DISCUSSION |
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| 4:50-5:10 | BREAK |
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SESSION II |
ARABIC SYLLABIFICATION AND PROSODY |
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| 5:10-5:30 | Abdessatar Mahfoudhi, U of Ottawa | Edge-related syllables in Arabic |
| 5:30-5:50 | Abdel-Khalig Ali, U of Toronto | Syllabification and opacity of stress in three dialects of Sudanese Arabic |
| 5:50-6:10 | DISCUSSION |
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Saturday, February 8, 2003 |
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SESSION III |
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Kathleen Currie Hall, U North Carolina | Perception of non-native contrast and the Scottish vowel length rule |
| 9:20-9:40 | Sadie Fowler, McGill U | Constraint demotion in the interlanguage of an L1 Iraqi Arabic/L2 English speaker |
| 9:40-10:00 | Jeffrey Steele, U of Toronto | Epenthesis asymmetries as evidence for the role of higher prosodic structure in L2 acquisition |
| 10:00-10:20 | DISCUSSION |
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| 10:20-10:40 | BREAK |
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SESSION IV |
STRESS |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Peter Liem, Concordia U | Sentani stress and derivations |
| 11:00-11:20 | G. L. Piggott, McGill U | Nonfinality and the location of primary stress |
| 11:20-11:40 | John T. Jensen, U of Ottawa | The rules of English stress |
| 11:40-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
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| 12:00-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
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SESSION V |
DIACHRONY |
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| 2:00-2:20 | Kevin Heffernan, U of Toronto | Correlating social relationship and the preservation of contrast in loanword phonology |
| 2:20-2:40 | Marina Sherkina, U of Toronto | Allomorphs of Russian prepositions: Historical reanalysis |
| 2:40-3:00 | Laura Colantoni, U of Toronto | An early stage in a dephonologization process: The loss of palatal laterals in Argentine Spanish |
| 3:00-3:20 | DISCUSSION |
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| 3:20-3:40 | BREAK |
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SESSION VI |
AAVE PHONOLOGY |
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| 3:40-4:00 | Grant L. McGuire, Ohio State U | The behavior of interdental fricatives in Columbus Ohio AAVE |
| 4:00-4:20 | Gerard Van Herk, U of Ottawa & York U | Prosodic and lenition effects on African American Vernacular English morphosyntax |
| 4:20-4:35 | DISCUSSION |
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| 4:35-4:55 | BREAK |
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SESSION VII |
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES |
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| 4:55-5:15 | Alex D'Arcy, U of Toronto | Seeing through transparency in a two-place model of vowel features |
| 5:15-5:35 | Jeff Mielke & Andrea Sims, Ohio State U | Step forward if you are always marked...not so fast, [labial] |
| 5:35-5:55 | Chiara Frigeni, U of Toronto | Reconsidering fortition/(lenition) |
| 5:55-6:15 | DISCUSSION |
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Saturday Evening |
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PARTY - 8 p.m., Olive AvenueIf you play a musical instrument, come and jam with F-Zero, the U of T Linguistics Department House Band. |
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Sunday, February 9, 2003 |
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| 10:00-10:30 |
BREAKFAST |
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SESSION VIII |
SYLLABIFICATION |
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| 10:30-10:50 | William J. Idsardi, U of Delaware & Eric Raimy, Swarthmore College |
What we can and cannot learn from Pig Latin |
| 10:50-11:10 | Emmanuel Nikiema, U of Toronto | R-diphthongs: The case of French Lexifier Creoles |
| 11:10-11:30 | Martin Aumont, Concordia U | Québécois geminates |
| 11:30-11:50 | DISCUSSION |
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| 11:50-12:10 | BREAK |
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SESSION IX |
UNNATURAL CLASSES |
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| 12:10-12:30 | Jeff Mielke, Ohio State U | How to explain natural classes without universal distinctive features |
| 12:30-12:50 | Milan Řezáč, U of Toronto | Consonant mutations in Breton and the theory of phonology |
| 12:50-1:05 | DISCUSSION |
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| 1:05-2:45 | LUNCH & MEETING: Department of Linguistics |
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