, Stanford Phonology Workshop
Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford University
Department of Linguistics

Phonology Workshop

Regular meetings on Mondays at 3:15pm in Margaret Jacks Hall, Chair's Office. See Campus Map.

2007-2008 Schedule [NEW TIME 3:15pm]

Fall 2007-8

Monday, October 1, 3:15 pm.
       Organizational meeting
Monday, October 8, 3:15 pm.
       Arto Anttila, Stanford University
       "Variation and Opacity in Singapore English Consonant Clusters" [Abstract]
Monday, October 15, 3:15 pm.
       Alex Jaker, Stanford University
       Discussion of Pearce (2006) "The interaction between metrical structure and tone in Kera"
Monday, October 22, 3:15 pm.
       Aaron Kaplan, UC Santa Cruz
       "Processes and Optionality in Chamorro Umlaut"
Monday, November 5, 3:15 pm.
       Anne Pycha, UC Berkeley
       "Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics-phonology interface" [Abstract]
Monday, November 12, 3:15 pm.
       Yuni Kim, UC Berkeley
       "Vowel breaking and palatalization in Huave" [Abstract]
Monday, November 26, 3:15 pm., Stanford Humanities Center Seminar Room
       Peri Bhaskararao, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
       "Timing Constraints within Gestures: Toda sibilants and Tibeto-Burman Voiceless Nasals" [Abstract]
Wednesday, November 28, 3:15 pm.
       Stephanie Shih, Stanford University
       "Rethinking linguistic models of rhythm: Evidence from jazz bop swing" [Abstract]
Monday, December 3, 3:15 pm., Stanford Humanities Center Seminar Room
       James Myers, National Chung Cheng University
       "Categorical and gradient phonology: Theory meets methodology" [Abstract]
Monday, December 10, 3:15 pm.
       Olga Dmitrieva, Matthew Adams, Jason Grafmiller, Scott Grimm, Yuan Zhao, and Arto Anttila, Stanford University
       "Gradient OCP and harmonic alignment in English phonotactics" (LSA talk, Chicago, January 3, 2008) [Abstract]

Winter 2007-8

Monday, January 14, 3:15 pm, Greenberg Room
       Organizational meeting
Monday, January 21
       MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., DAY (NO MEETING)
Monday, January 28, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Matthew Adams
       "Variation in the English Comparative." Presentation of early results.
Monday, February 4, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Seung Kyung Kim
       "Perceptual Similarity in English-to-Korean Loanwords"
       Dry run of BLS talk. Abstract available here.
Monday, February 11, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Uriel Cohen-Priva
       Presentation of duration model results.
Monday, February 18
       PRESIDENT'S DAY (NO MEETING)
Monday, February 25, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Matthew Adams
       "Variation in the English Comparative." Presentation moved to March 10
Monday, March 3, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Stephanie Shih
       "Prosodic evidence for the lexical status of quasi serial verbs"
Monday, March 10, Chair's Office, Linguistics Department
       Matthew Adams
       "Variation and Optimization in the English Comparative"

Spring 2007-8

Monday, April 7
       Organizational Meeting
Monday, April 14
       Laura Whitton, Stanford University
       Discussion of recent work in semantics and intonation
Monday, April 21
       Jaye Padgett, UCSC and Nathan Sanders, Williams College
       "Predicting vowel inventories from a dispersion-focalization model: new results"
Monday, April 28, in Margaret Jacks Hall 126
       Anubha Kothari, Stanford University
       Introduction to Python scripting
Monday, May 5
       Patrick Suppes, Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University (Emeritus)
       Abstract: The idea of a hierarchical structure of language constituents of phonemes, syllables, words, and sentences is robust and widely accepted. Empirical similarities at every level of this hierarchy have been collected and analyzed in the form of confusion matrices for many years. By normalizing such data so that similarities are represented by conditional probabilities, simple orderings of similarities can be constructed. The intersection of two such orderings is an invariant partial ordering with respect to the two given orders. Such invariant partial orderings, especially between perceptual and brain orderings, but also between brain images of phonemes, are the focus of this lecture.
Monday, May 12
       Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona and CASBS
       Topic: Emergence in phonology
       Description: "Emergence" in linguistics is the concept that many of the properties of any given language can be deduced from the language environment itself, without recourse to an innate linguistic faculty. I will give some justification for emergence, then explore implications of emergence for typology/universals and for phonological analysis.
Monday, May 19
       TBA
Monday, May 26
       MEMORIAL DAY (NO MEETING)
Monday, June 2
       Olga Dmitrieva, Stanford University
       Topic TBA

    When and where

Unless otherwise specified, the phonology workshops are held on Mondays at 3:15 p.m. in the Chair's Office, Margaret Jacks Hall, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (Building 460). Participating and attending is free and open to everyone. Here is some information about getting to Stanford.

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Past workshops: schedules and abstracts

2007-8 organizers: Matthew Adams and Arto Anttila

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Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-2150
USA

Last modified: April 3, 2008, by Matthew Adams