LINGUIST List 14.1150

Mon Apr 21 2003

Confs: Phonology/Optimality Theory/AZ USA

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  • ussishki, Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory

    Message 1: Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory

     Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:28:58 +0000
    From: ussishki <ussishkiemail.arizona.edu>
    Subject: Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory


    Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory Short Title: SWOT

    Date: 24-Apr-2003 - 26-Apr-2003 Location: Tucson, AZ, United States of America Contact: Adam Ussishkin Contact Email: ussishkiemail.arizona.edu Meeting URL: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/swot2003.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Phonology

    Meeting Description:

    Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory April 24-26, 2003 The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

    All talks will take place in the Douglass Building, room 101, at the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)

    Thursday evening, April 24

    7 - 8:15 John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst ''Categorical and Gradient Constraints''

    Friday, April 25

    9 - 10:15 Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University ''Jakobson's Program in Optimality Theory''

    10:15 - 10:45 Bella Feng, University of Southern California ''Syllable-size morpheme restrictions in shaping reduplication''

    10:45 - 11 Break

    11 - 11:30 Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona ''Asymmetry of edge faithfulness in melodic, moraic, and foot levels''

    11:30 - 12 Fetiye Karaba, University of Southern California ''Reduplication Without RED: Morphological motivations of reduplication''

    12 - 1:30 Lunch

    1:30 - 2:15 Jessica Barlow, San Diego State University and UC San Diego ''Constraint conflict in medial cluster reduction in Spanish phonological acquisition''

    2:15 - 3:00 Colin Wilson, University of California at Los Angeles ''Unbounded spreading in OT''

    3:00 - 3:30 Break

    3:30 - 4:00 Mariame Sy, University of California at Los Angeles ''Vowel harmony in Wolof loanwords''

    4:00 - 4:45 Adam Ussishkin, University of Arizona ''OT Metaconstraints: Universally-Fixed Rankings or Grounded Tendencies?''

    4:45 - 5 Business meeting (plan for SWOT rotation among institutions)

    Saturday, April 26

    9 - 10:15 Alan Prince, Rutgers University ''The Logic of Optimality Theory''

    10:15 - 10:45 Heidi Orcutt, University of Arizona ''Predicting 'Exceptional' Forms in Gikuyu (Kikuyu) Verbs: A Unified Account''

    10:45 - 11 Break

    11 - 11:45 Eric Bakovic, University of California at San Diego ''Counterfactual Considerations''

    11:45 - 12:15 Andrew Wedel, University of California at Santa Cruz ''Categorical behavior through self-organization: Deriving constraint dominance''

    12:15 - 1:15 Lunch

    1:15 - 1:45 Robert Kennedy, University of Arizona ''Confluence in Phonology''

    1:45 - 2:15 Roger Billerey-Mosier, University of California at Los Angeles ''Exemplar-based phonotactic learning''

    2:15 - 2:45 Jason Haugen, University of Arizona ''Prosodic Morphology and Constraint-Ranking in Uto-Aztecan Historical Phonology''

    2:45 - 3:00 Break

    3:00 - 4:00 Junko Ito, Armin Mester, and Jaye Padgett, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Marzena Zygis, Zentrum f�r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin ''The historical phonology of sibilants: two case studies''

    6 - 9:30 Potluck dinner chez Archangeli