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 |