The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm22) was held May 29-31. Among the presentations were:
- Juliet Stanton and Donca Steriade: Stress windows and Base Faithfulness in English suffixal derivatives
- Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000), Tae-Jin Yoon and Sungwoo Han: Lexical diffusion of vowel length merger in Seoul Korean: a corpus-based study
- Adam Albright: Epenthesis in rising sonority clusters in Lakhota
- Suyeon Yun: The role of acoustic disjuncture in loan epenthesis: experimental evidence
- Andrew Nevins (PhD 2005) and Nina Topintzi: Moraic onsets and cross-anchoring in Arrernte
- Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009): On the Prince-Tesar-Hayes’ approach to OT restrictiveness
- Anthony Brohan: Licensing Catalan laryngeal neutralization by cue (Poster)
- Sam Zukoff: A correlation between stress and reduplication: Diyari and beyond (Poster)
- Lilla Magyar: Gemination in Hungarian loanword adaptation (Poster)
- Benjamin Storme: The Loi de Position and the acoustics of French mid vowels (Poster)
- Katrin Skoruppa, Andrew Nevins and Stuart Rosen: English listeners’ use of vowel phonotactics for speech segmentation (Poster)
The 24th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 24) was held at NYU on 5/30-6/1.
- Among the invited talks were Valentine Hacquard (PhD 2006), Bootstrapping into attitudes, and Sarah Moss (PhD MIT Philosophy 2009), On the semantics of epistemic vocabulary.
- Wataru Uegaki gave a talk entitled Japanese-type alternative questions in a cross-linguistic perspective.
- Tue Trinh (PhD 2011) presented a poster with Andreas Haida entitled Building alternatives as did Luka Crnič (PhD 2011), on Scope fixing, scope economy, and focus movement.
- Marie-Christine Meyer (PhD 2013), gave a talk entitled Grammatical uncertainty implicatures and Hurford’s constraint
CNRS-IKER in the Basque Country will host the Workshop on Quantifier Scope: Syntactic, Semantic, and Experimental Approaches on June 12-13. Benjamin Bruening (PhD 2001) will present an invited talk entitled Giving and having: quantifier scope and secondary predicates. Susi Wurmbrand (PhD 1998) is also giving an invited talk titled Thoughts on the syntactic domain of QR. Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler will present a talk entitled Covered Box Task to investigate acquisition of scopally ambiguous sentences: evidence from scrambled sentences in Japanese.
NINJAL and ICU are co-hosting the 7th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL7) in Tokyo on June 27-29. The following are among the MIT-affiliated presentations:
- Miwako Hisagi, Valerie Shafer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara and Dimitrios Pantazis: Perception of Japanese vowel duration contrasts by L1 and L2 learners of Japanese: An EEG study
- Uli Sauerland (PhD 1998) and Kazuko Yatsuhiro: Japanese Reported Speech within the Emerging Typology of Speech Reports
- Shinichiro Ishihara (PhD 2003): On Match Constraints (Invited Talk)
- Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler: Children do not accept unambiguous inverse-scope readings: experimental evidence from prosody and scrambling in Japanese
- Ryo Masuda: Phonological and lexical contexts and the phonetic realization of [voice] in Japanese (Poster)
- Takashi Morita: Scalar implicature and restrictive focus particles (Poster)
Finally, NINJAL will also host the 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14), July 25-27. Presenting there are:
- Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000), Tae-Jin Yoon and Sungwoo Han: Lexical diffusion of vowel length merger in Seoul Korean: a corpus-based study
- Gillian Gallagher (PhD 2010): Determining the representation of phonotactic restrictions with nonce words (Poster)
- Suyeon Yun: Acoustic disjuncture in consonant clusters and vowel epenthesis (Poster)