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Directory         1.    Maire Ni Chiosain, 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference Message 1: 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference Date: 13-Jul-2010 From: Maire Ni Chiosain <maire.nichiosainucd.ie> Subject: 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference E-mail this message to a friend 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference Short Title: CLC6 Date: 10-Sep-2010 - 12-Sep-2010 Location: Dublin, Ireland Contact: Maire Ni Chiosain Contact Email: maire.nichiosainucd.ie Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Insular Celtic Meeting Description: The Sixth Celtic Linguistics Conference will take place from the 10th-12th September 2010 at University College Dublin. 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference [CLC6] Programme Friday 10 September 1:45 Welcome, opening remarks 2:00-3:00 The Structure of the Gaelic DP: Prepositions, Genitives and Definiteness David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London) Gap and Resumption in Welsh PP Ryuichiro Hirata (Bangor University) 3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea 3:30-5:30 Intonation of Irish Dialects: the Wider Context Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin) Tonal Evidence for the Prosodic Hierarchy in Conamara Irish Emily Elfner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Realisation of Sentence Mode in the Intonation of Connemara Irish Maria O'Reilly, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin) Lightest to the Right: an Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz) with Ryan Bennett (UCSC), Andrew Dowd (UCSC), Emily Elfner (UMass Amherst) Posters Reception Saturday 11 September 9:30-11:00 Clause-initial Particles in a Corpus of Contemporary Spoken Welsh Dirk Bury, Peredur Davies (Bangor University) The Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzle: Acquisition of Gender in Welsh Kathryn Morgan Sharp (ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism) Urban Irish Systematically Analyzed - Dialect? Pidgin? Creole? Brian Ó Broin (William Patterson University, NJ) 11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea 11:30-12:30 Problems with Compounds in Welsh Gwen Awbury (Aberystwyth University) Irish Plural Allomorphy: Output Optimization vs. Subcategorization Ryan Bennett (University of California, Santa Cruz) 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:00 Welsh Vocabulary through the Lens of Lexical Typology: Verbs of Rotation Elena Parina (Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow), V. Krugljakova (Russian State University for Humanities) Breton Indefinites Melanie Jouitteau (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle,Université Paris 7) 3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea 3:30 Round Table: Contributors will include Brian Ó Curnáin (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), Aidan Doyle (University College Cork), Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz), Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona, Tucson) Posters Conference dinner Sunday 12 September 9:30-10:30 Dependent Verbs and Tense in Modern Irish Morphosyntax Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) A Comparative Perspective on the Negative Cycles in Welsh and Breton David Willis (University of Cambridge) 10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea 11:00-1:00 Incomplete Neutralization and Unorthodox Markedness in Breton Laryngeal Phonology Pavel Iosad (Universitetet I Tromsø/CASTL) An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Lewis Gaelic Stop Consonants Claire Nance, Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) Scottish Gaelic Experimental Phonology: Preliminary Results Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona, Tucson) An Experimental Phonetic Investigation of Irish Initial Consonant Mutations Pauline Welby (LPL CNRS/Université de Provence), Máire Ní Chiosáin (University College Dublin), Brian Ó Raghallaigh (Dublin City University) 1:00-2:00 Lunch Posters Stádas na Struchtúr Timchainteacha i Gcóras Briathartha Gaeilge Victor Bayda (Stát-Ollscoil Mhoscó) Grammaticalized Raising in Early Irish Dorothy Disterheft (University of South Carolina) Phono-Morphosyntax, and all points in between: Irish Lenitions and the Prosodic Phrase Joey Windsor (University of Calgary) Ulster Irish Intonation: Similarities and Differences to Ulster English Amelie Dorn & Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin) Automatic Syllabification for the Irish Text-to-Speech Synthesizer abair.ie - a Rule-based Approach Christoph Wendler, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin) Vocalic and Consonantal Quantity in Breton and Welsh Katarzyna Bednarska (Catholic University of Lublin) What can be Discovered in Celtic Languages from the Viewpoint of a Contemporary Phonological Theory of Representations Krzysztof Jasku?a (Catholic University of Lublin) Exploring Irish Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Educational Purposes Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Christoph Wendler, Neasa Ní Chiaráin (Trinity College Dublin) Dialectometry and Goidelic Linguistics: Applications and Implications Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Oilthigh Dhún Éideann) English Words in an Irish Context: Code-switching in an Irish Immersion School Caitríona Ní Chasaide (University College Dublin) Further information: Máire Ní Chiosáin, School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin (maire.nichiosainucd.ie) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.