Stanford Linguistics Department Phonology Workshop

Stanford University
Department of Linguistics

Past Phonology Workshops

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2006-2007 Schedule

Fall 2006-7

Monday, October 2, 2:15 pm.
Arto Anttila, Stanford University
Gradient phonotactics in Optimality Theory. [Abstract]

Thursday, October 12, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "Osage fills the gap: The quantity insensitive iamb & the typology of feet" by Daniel Altshuler [Download]

Thursday, October 19, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "Variation as accessing 'non-optimal' candidates: A rank-ordering model of EVAL" by Andries Coetzee [Download]

Thursday, October 26, no meeting.
[Talk by William Labov at 16:30. Terrace Room, MJH 426]

Thursday, November 2, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "A revised typology of opaque generalizations" by Eric Bakovic [Download]

Thursday, November 9, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "Implication & Impossibility in Grammatical Systems: What it is & How to find it" by Alan Prince [Download]

Thursday, November 16, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "Modeling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations" by Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes [Download]

Saturday, November 18,
P-TREND at Berkeley, details [here]

Thursday, November 30, 4:00 pm.
Discussion of "A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning" by Bruce Hayes and Colin Wilson [Download]

Thursday, December 7, 5:15 pm., a joint meeting with SPLaT
Jay McClelland
"Graded constraints in English word forms" [Draft]

Winter 2006-7

Spring 2006-7

Monday, April 9, 2:00-3:50pm.
Organizational meeting

Monday, April 16, 2:00-3:50pm.
Hal Tily, Stanford University
Corpus tutorial

Monday, April 23, 2:00-3:50pm.
A discussion of Keren Rice's paper "Language Contact, Phonemic Inventories, and the Athapaskan Language Family"

Monday, April 30, 2:00-3:50pm.
Alex Jaker, Stanford University
"Geminate Ejectives and Tonal Feet in Yellowknife Dogrib"

Monday, May 7
No phonology workshop.
Instead, we'll go to the [Brasoveanu talk]

Monday, May 14, 2:00-3:50pm.
Arto Anttila and Adams Bodomo, Stanford University and the University of Hong Kong
"Prosodic morphology in Dagaare"

Monday, May 21, 2:00-3:50pm.
Olga Dmitrieva, Stanford University
"Geminates in Russian"

Monday, May 28
No phonology workshop (Memorial Day).

Monday, June 11, 2:15-3:50pm.
Matthew Adams, Olga Dmitrieva, Jason Grafmiller, Scott Grimm, Yuan Zhao, Arto Anttila
"On the Gradient Phonotactics of English" [Abstract]

2005-2006 Schedule

Fall 2005

Thursday November 3, 5:30 pm.
Yuni Kim, UC Berkeley
Title TBA. [Abstract]

Winter 2006

Monday February 6, 2:15pm (NOTE non-standard time).
Will Leben, Stanford.
Rethinking autosegmental phonology. [Abstract]

Monday February 13, 2:15pm (NOTE non-standard time).
Lev Blumenfeld, Stanford.
Reading group: Bybee et al., "Prosody and segmental effect".

Wednesday February 22, 1:30pm (NOTE non-standard day & time).
Aaron Kaplan, UCSC.
Tone in Reduplication. [Abstract]

Wednesday March 1.
Lauren Hall-Lew, Stanford.
Labio-Palatalization in Akan. [Abstract]

Monday March 6.
Alex Jaker, Stanford.
Reading group: Pierrehumbert, Beckman, Ladd, "Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science".

Monday March 13.
Presenter: TBA.
Reading group: Bruce Hayes, "Phonetically Driven Phonology: The Role of Optimality Theory and Inductive Grounding".

Monday March 20.
Alex Jaker, Stanford.
Split Subject Agreement and Morphological Typology. [Abstract]

Spring 2006

Thursday, April 20.
Young-Mee Cho, Rutgers University.
Spelling out the prosodic structure in linguistic chants.

Thursday May 4th, 5:00-6:30pm, room 110.
Presenter: TBA.
Reading group: Pierrehumbert, Beckman, and Ladd, "Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science".

Monday May 8th, 3:00-4:30pm, room 126 (Greenberg Room).
Caroline Smith, University of New Mexico.
Title TBA.

Thursday May 11th, 5:30-7:00pm, room 126 (Greenberg Room).
Shinichiro Ishihara, University of Potsdam.
Title TBA.

Thursday May 18th, 5:00-6:30pm, room 110.
Alex Jaker, Stanford.
Gemination and syllable weight in Dogrib

Thursday May 25th, 5:00-6:30pm, room 110.
Olga Dmitrieva, Stanford.
Consonant quantity and stress effects in Russian: evidence for metrical system or syllable weight sensitivity?

Thursday June 1st, 5:00-6:30pm, room 110.
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford.
Title: A program for amphichronic linguistics

Thursday June 8th, 5:00-6:30pm, room 110.
Arto Anttila, Stanford.
Title: Tone in Dagaare

2002-2003 Schedule
Autumn 2002f

Friday October 11th, 5pm (note nonstandard time and day): Julie Auger ( Department of Linguistics, Indiana University); Variable vowel epenthesis in Picard [Abstract]
Thursday October 17 (co-sponsored by the Semantics and Pragmatics workshop): Christopher Potts & Geoffrey Pullum ( Department of Linguistics, UC-Santa Cruz); Model theory and the content of OT constraints [Abstract] [Manuscript]
Friday October 25, 3:30pm (Linguistics Department Colloquium; note nonstandard day and time): Aditi Lahiri (University of Konstanz); Contrast and Conflict in Phonological Representation: Evidence from Language Change and Neurobiology [Abstract]
Thrusday November 21: Luc Baronian (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); The Armenian Consonant Shift Controversy [Abstract]
Thursday December 5: Mary Rose (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); Title: A discourse-phonology interface in ASL: Pronouncing two words at once [Abstract]

Winter 2003

Spring 2003

Thursday April 11

Hee-sun Kim (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Title: Prosody in Korean Sentence Processing and Language Teaching [Abstract]

Tuesday May 13, 7pm, bldg. 460-301 (note nonstandard place, day and time!!!)

Andrew Garrett (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley)

Title: The invention of Greek: phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics [Abstract]

Thursday May 15, 5:30pm, bldg. 460-301 (note nonstandard place!!!)

Junko Ito and Armin Mester (Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz)

Title: Antipalatalization as a systemic effect [Abstract]

Thursday June 5, 5:30pm, 460-126

Michael Wagner (MIT and Stanford)

Title: Syntactic asymmetries in Phonological Domain Formation: Phrases, Compounds, Derivatives. [Abstract]

2001-2002 Schedule
Autumn 2001

Thursday October 11th

Paul Kiparsky ( Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Stratal OT or Sympathy? [Abstract]

Thursday November 8th

Edward Flemming ( Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Coronal-Dorsal Interactions [Abstract]

Thursday November 15th

Stuart Davis ( Department of Linguistics, Indiana University)

On the Analysis of Aspirated Weak Syllables in English [Abstract]

Winter 2002

Spring 2002

Tursday April 11: Donca Steriade(Department of Linguistics, MIT); Semi-rhymes, similarity, and phonological knowledge [Abstract]

Thursday April 18th

Alan Yu (Department of Linguistics, UC-Berkeley)

Understanding infixes as infixes [Abstract]

Thursday May 23d

Andrew Wedel (Department of Linguistics, UC-Santa Cruz)

Phonological Alternation, Neighborhood Density, and Markedness in Processing.[Abstract]

The Phonology Workshop Planning Committee for 2000-2001: Ela H Widdows, Luc Baronian, Paul Kiparsky, William Leben, Colleen Richey

2000-2001 Schedule
Autumn 2000

October 12

John Fry ( Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

F0 correlates of topic and subject in spontaneous Japanese speech [Abstract]

*Wednesday* November 15

Paul Kiparsky ( Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

The Accentuation of Classical Greek [Abstract]

*Tuesday* November 21, 12:00-1:00

Randall Gess (Department of Linguistics, University of Utah)

On constraint re-ranking in phonological change [Abstract]

November 30

Nila Friedberg (Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto)

No FAITH in Metrics: The Phonology of Russian Iambic Tetrameter [Abstract]

*Wednesday* December 6

Julie Sweetland & John Rickford (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Prosodic Conditioning of the Copula: A Second Opinion [Abstract]

Winter 2001

January 25

Will Leben (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Tonal Constituents [Abstract]

February 15

Henning Reetz (Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz)

Morphologically induced Geminates in Dutch, English and German [Abstract]

February 22

Gjert Kristofferesen (Nordisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen)

Metrical tone in Norwegian [Abstract]

*Friday* March 2, *3:30PM*

Stanford Linguistics Department Colloquium: Henning Reetz talk.

March 8

Ove Lorentz (Institutt for lingvistikk, Universitetet i Tromsø)

Tone Doubling and Scandinavian Tonogenesis With an Excursus on Structure Building by Alignment [Abstract]

*Monday* March 12, *6PM*

Martha Pennington talk.

March 15

Jennifer L. Smith (Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz)

Positional Augmentation Constraints and Substantive Grounding in Phonology [Abstract]

Spring 2001

*Wednesday* April 11

Bob Ladd (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh)

Could there be a phonology-phonetics interface? [Abstract]

*Saturday*, April 14, *9 a.m to 6 p.m*.

TREND: Tri-Lateral Phonology Weekend (with UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz).

[Program]

May 10 at *4:30PM*

Sun-Ah Jun (Department of Linguistics, UCLA)

Accentual Phrasing and Sentence Processing in Korean [Abstract]

The Phonology Workshop Planning Committee for 2000-2001: Luc Baronian, Paul Kiparsky, William Leben, Colleen Richey

1999-2000 Schedule
Autumn 1999

October 21: Orhan Orgun (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis); "English vowel length and stem-based (not word-based) morphology"
October 28: Edward Flemming (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Scalar representations in a unified model of phonetics and phonology" (Abstract)
November 11: Donca Steriade (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles); "P-map effects and constraint organization" (Abstract)
December 2: Ian Maddieson (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley); "Phonetic Studies of Endangered Languages" (Abstract)

Winter 2000

February 17: Adam Ussishkin (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz); "Maximal Word Size and Faithfulness in Modern Hebrew" (Abstract)
March 2: Paul Kiparsky (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Cyclicity in Finnish Noun Inflection" (Abstract)
March 9: Bruce Hedin (Department of Classics, Stanford University); "The Phonological and Syntactic Conditioning of Elision in Ancient Greek" (Abstract)

Spring 2000

April 13: Arnold Zwicky (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Describing Syncretism: Rules of Referral after Fifteen Years" (Abstract)
May 11: Luc Baronian (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "A Note on Fast Speech and Pronoun Deletion in French" (Abstract)
May 25: Eunjin Oh (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Non-Native Acquisition of Coarticulation" (Abstract)

1998-1999 Schedule
Autumn 1998

October 8: Paul Kiparsky (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); OT & LPM (Abstract)
October 29: Ronald Sprouse (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley); Handling Opacity in Two-Level OT (Abstract)
November 12: Kristjan Arnason (Department of Icelandic, University of Iceland); Preaspiration & Vowel Shortness in Icelandic (Abstract)
November 19: Laura J. Downing (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley); Morphological Constraints on Bantu Reduplication (Abstract)

Winter 1999

January 21: William Leben (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); Weak Vowels and Vowel Sequences in Kwa: Sounds Phonology Can't Handle (Abstract)
February 4th: Larry Hyman (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley); The Limits of Phonetic Determinism in Phonology: *NC Revisited (Abstract)
February 25th: Janet Pierrehumbert (Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University); Things, Relations, and Interactions (Abstract)
March 11th: Arnold Zwicky (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); Auxiliary reduction in English once again: the articulation of syntax, morphology, and phonology; (Abstract)

Spring 1999

April 6th, noon (NOTE SPECIAL TIME): Jason Eisner (Dept of Computer and Information Science's LINC lab, University of Pennyslvania); Making Optimality Theory Safe for Linguists, Kids and Computers (Abstract)
April 22nd: Jaye Padgett (Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Cruz); The systemic view of contrast: a case study in Russian (Abstract)
May 6th: Kristjan Arnason (Department of Icelandic, University of Iceland); The long and short of Icelandic dipthongs (Abstract)
May 13th: Sharon Inkelas (Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley); Reduplication as Double Stem Selection (joint work with Cheryl Zoll, MIT) (Abstract)
May 20th (SPECIAL SEMANTICS/PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP): Christine Bartels (Cambridge University Press); Towards a Formal Semantics of English Phrasal Intonation (Abstract)

1997-1998 Schedule
Autumn 1997

October 23: Larry Hyman (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley); "The Cyclic Effect of Suffix Ordering in the Bantu Verb Stem (with special reference to applicativized causatives)" (Abstract)
November 13: Colleen Fitzgerald (Linguistics and Language Department, San Jose State University); "Destressing and Correspondence in the Clitic Group: Evidence from Tohono O'odham" (Abstract)
December 4: Paul Kiparsky (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Phonological and Morphological Constraints"(Abstract)

Winter 1998

February 12: Grazyna Rowicka (HIL/Leiden University); "Polish Vowel-Zero Alternations and Prosodic Properties of Morphemes" (Abstract)
February 19: Marika Butskhrikidze (Leiden University); "Complex Clusters: New Prosodic Domain Stem (Case Study in Modern Georgian)"(Abstract)
Mar 3 Tuesday: Edward Flemming (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Some Arguments against using Underlying Representations in OT Phonology" (Abstract)
March 12: Arman Maghbouleh (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "From bumps to Phonology: a model for recognizing intonational phonemes from duration and fundamental frequency" (Abstract)

Spring 1998

April 2 6:30pm: Bruce Hayes (Department of Linguistics, UCLA); "The Richness of Paradigms, and the Insufficiency of Underlying representations in Accounting for them" (Abstract)
April 9: James Giangola (General magic); "The Optimization of Portuguese Verb Representations: Vowel Harmony Revisited" (Abstract)
April 16: John Ohala (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley); "Phonetics in Phonology: More and Less" (Abstract)
May 7: Brett Kessler (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University); "Estimating the Probability of Historical Connections Between Languages Using Recurrent Sound Correspondences"(Abstract)
May 27 Wednesday 10 a.m.: John McCarthy (Department of Linguistics, UMass Amherst)