Conference Information

Full Title:	Metrical Structure: Meter, Text-setting and Stress

Short Title:	M@90
Location:	Cambridge MA, USA
Start Date:	20-Sep-2013 - 21-Sep-2013
Contact:	Donca Steriade
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting Description:	The MIT Linguistics Department is hosting a Conference on Metrical Structure: Text-setting and Stress for September 20-21, 2013. The conference marks a number of new developments in these fields as well as a number of 90th anniversaries: among them, the publication of Roman Jakobson’s O češkom stixe (1923), the first typological study of meter and stress, hailed as the beginning of Prague School phonology; Eduard Hermann’s Silbenbildung im Griechischen und in den andern indogermanischen Sprachen (1923), the first typological study of syllable weight as applied to quantitative meter; and other 1923 events of significance for the theory of metrical structure. The abbreviated name of the conference is M@90. Invited Speakers: Stress: MeganCrowhurst, Matt Gordon, William Idsardi, Junko Ito, Mark Liberman John McCarthy, Armin Mester, Alan Prince, Olga Vajsman Meter: François Dell, Nigel Fabb, John Halle, Morris Halle, Kristin Hanson, Bruce Hayes, Paul Kiparsky, Kevin Ryan
Linguistic Subfield:	Phonology
LL Issue:	24.1052


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