The spring MIT/UMass Meeting in Phonology will take place at MIT this Saturday, May 9, from 11am until 6pm in 32-D461. The schedule of talks is as follows:
11:00 | Emily Elfner, Umass | Harmonic Serialism and stress-epenthesis interactions in Levantine Arabic |
11:45 | Bronwyn Bjorkman, MIT | Uniform exponence and reduplication: evidence from Kinande |
12:30 | Patrick Jones, MIT | The evidence for the phonological stem in Kinande |
1:15 – 2:30 | lunch | |
2:30 | Anne Pycha, Penn and UMass | The role of acoustic shape in phonological grammar: evidence from eye tracking |
3:15 | Hyesun Cho, MIT | The problem of generalization in a statistical learning model of phonotactics |
4:00 | break | |
4:30 | Brian Smith, UMass | The null parse in Harmonic Grammar |
5:15 | Karen Jesney, UMass | Licensing in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar |