LINGUIST List 23.890 Tue Feb 21 2012 Confs: Phonology/Canada Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Charles Reiss , 7th North American Phonology Conference Message 1: 7th North American Phonology Conference Date: 20-Feb-2012 From: Charles Reiss <cogscialcor.concordia.ca> Subject: 7th North American Phonology Conference E-mail this message to a friend 7th North American Phonology Conference Short Title: NAPhC7 Date: 04-May-2012 - 05-May-2012 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact: Charles Reiss Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc7/ Linguistic Field(s): Phonology Meeting Description: The 7th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC7) will be held May 4-5, 2012 at Concordia University in Montreal. Invited speakers for NAPhC7 are: Gorka Elordieta, University of the Basque Country Tobias Scheer, University of Nice Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester Mary Paster, Pomona College Peter Jurgec, Meertens Institute Program: Location: TBA Friday, May 4, 2012 8:30-8:58 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:58-9:00 Introductory Remarks (Charles Reiss, Concordia) Session I 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester) , Diachronic Origins of Opacity and Incomplete Neutralization: the Case of Prefortis Clipping, Canadian Raising, and Flapping 10:00-10:40 Mark Hale (Concordia), A Problem in Avestan Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology: with Methodological Digressions 10:40-11:20 Eric Baković (UCSD), Breaking Down Rule Interactions Break 11:40-12:20 Sylvia Blaho ( Hungarian Academy of Sciences) & Curt Rice (Tromsø), Falsifiability vs. Falsifiability in Phonology 12:20-1:00 Peter Guekguezian (USC), Vowel Lowering and Prosodic Size Requirements in Chukchansi Yokuts Lunch Session II: 2:00-3:00 Invited Speaker: Mary Paster (Pomona), Why Doesn't Phonology Count? 3:00-3:40 Bruce Tesar (Rutgers), Output-Driven Maps in Phonology 3:40-4:40 Posters and coffee 4:40-5:20 Berit Anne Bals Baal (Tromsø), David Odden (Ohio) & Curt Rice (Tromsø), North Saami Foot Structure in Formal Phonology 5:20-6:20 Invited Speaker: Tobias Scheer (Nice), Direct Interface: a Non-diacritic Theory of How Morpho-syntax Talks to Phonology 6:45 Dinner at Buffet Maharaja, 1421 Boulevard René Levesque W. Saturday, May 5, 2012 8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast Session I 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Peter Jurgec (Meertens Institute) , Licensed Alignment 10:00-10:40 Lee Bickmore (Albany), A Comparative/Historical Analysis of the Tonology of Three Under-documented Zambian Languages Break 11:00-11:40 Bert Vaux (Cambridge) & Jeffrey Watamull (Cambridge, MIT), The Phonological Turing Machine 11:40-12:20 Eva Zimmerman (Leipzig), Morpheme-specific Vowel Deletion in Yine: A Case of Mora Deprivation Lunch Session II 1:30-2:30 Invited Speaker: Gorka Elordieta (Basque Country), TBA 2:30-3:10 Yoshihito Dobashi ( Niigata University), Prosodic Hierarchy, Autonomy of Prosody, and Efficient Computation 3:10-4:10 Posters and coffee 4:10-4:50 Alan Yu (Chicago), Washo Laryngeal phonology Revisited 4:50-5:30 Bridget Samuels (CalTech), Who's on Second? Prosodic Domains and South Slavic Clitics 6:00 Happy Hour at Brutopia Pub, 1219 Crescent St. Sunday: Bike tour of Montreal Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Feb-2012       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.