LINGUIST List 9.168

Wed Feb 4 1998

Confs: Texas Linguistic Society 1998

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1. Texas Linguistic Society, 1998 TLS: Exploring the Boundaries Between Phonetics and Phonology

 1998 Conference of the Texas Linguistics Society
 Exploring the Boundaries Between Phonetics and Phonology
 March 13-15, 1998
 The University of Texas at Austin
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Friday, March 13th

 * 8:45 - 9:45 Registration and Coffee

 * 9:45 - 10:00 Opening Remarks

 * 10:00 - 10:40 
 Natasha Warner (University of California, Berkeley)
 o Integrating Speech Perception and Formal Phonology

 * 10:40 - 11:20 
 Randall Gess (University of Utah)
 o Phonetics vs. Phonology in Sound Change: What OT Has to Say

 11:20 - 11:30 Break

 * 11:30 - 12:10 
 Lisa Lavoie (Cornell University)
 o Effects of Prosodic Structure on Phonetic and Phonological
 Consonant Weakening

 * 12:10 - 12:50 
 Tivoli Majors (University of Texas at Austin)
 o The Parallel Role of Stress in Vowel Harmony and V-V
 Coarticulation

 12:50 - 2:30 Lunch

 * 2:30 - 3:10 
 Kenneth de Jong (Indiana University)
 Bushra Zawaydeh (Indiana University)
 o A Sketch of Arabic Stress and Durational Structure

 * 3:10 - 3:50 
 Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky)
 Kenneth de Jong (Indiana University)
 o Syllables and Supersyllables: Evidence for Low Level
Phonological
 Domains

 3:50 - 4:00 Break

 * 4:00 - 5:00
 Keynote Address: Abigail Cohn (Cornell University)

 Saturday, March 14th

 8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee

 * 9:00 - 10:00
 Keynote Address: Patricia Keating (UCLA)

 10:00 - 10:10 Break

 * 10:10 - 10:50 
 Robert J. Podesva (Cornell University)
 o An Acoustic Analysis of Buginese Consonants

 * 10:50 - 11:30 
 Bill Ham (Cornell University)
 o Some Effects of Language-Specific Timing Strategies on Vowel
 Duration

 11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

 * 1:00 - 1:40 
 Bushra Zawaydeh (Indiana University)
 o The Natural Class Guttural: Endoscopic and Acoustic Evidence

 * 1:40 - 2:20 
 Madelaine Plauche (University of California, Berkeley)
 o Glottalized Sonorants in Yowlumne

 * 2:20 - 3:00 
 Ioana Chitoran (Dartmouth College)
 o Georgian Harmonic Clusters: Phonetic Cues to Phonological
Patterns

 3:00 - 3:10 Break

 * 3:10 - 3:50 
 Chip Gerfen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
 Paul Denisowski (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
 o H(igh)-H(igh), L(ow)-L(ow), W(hats)-W(hat)?

 * 3:50 - 4:30 
 Scott Myers (University of Texas at Austin)
 o Surface Underspecification of Tone in Chichewa

 Saturday Night: Party!

 Sunday, March 15th

 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee

 * 9:00 - 10:00 
 Keynote Address: Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University)

 10:00 - 10:10 Break

 * 10:10 - 10:50 
 Ayako Tsuchida (Rutgers University)
 o Phonetic and Phonological Vowel Devoicing in Japanese

 * 10:50 - 11:30 
 Allyson Carter (University of Arizona)
 o The Phonetic Manifestation of Unfooted Syllables: Evidence from
 Young Childrens Weak Syllable Omissions

 * 11:30 - 12:10 
 Iris Smorodinsky (Haskins Laboratories & Yale University)
 o The Phonology and Phonetics of Schwa in Parisian French: An
 Articulatory Analysis

For more information, see our website at: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/