Texas Linguistics Society

2002 Conference

Program

 

TLS 2002 conference presents Southwest Workshop in Optimality Theory and a parasession titled “Stress in Optimality Theory”

 

 

March 1 (Friday)

 

8:30-9:00

Registration

 

9:00-9:15

Anthony Woodbury

Opening Remarks

 

 

SOUTHWEST WORKSHOP IN OPTIMALITY THEORY

 

9:15-10:15

Invited Talk

Bruce Hayes (UCLA)

Faithfulness and Componentiality in Metrics

 

10:15-10:30

Break

 

 

Chair: Catherine Hicks Kennard

 

10:30-11:00

Eric Bakovic (UC San Diego)

The Consequences of Microvariation in Eastern Nilotic

 

11:00-11:30

Steve McCartney (UT Austin)

Resolved, not Germanic, Feet in Old English

 

11:30-12:00

Kristie McCrary (UCLA)

Syllable Structure vs. Segmental Phonotactics: Geminates and Clusters in Italian Revisited.

12:00-1:15

Lunch

 

 

Chair: Steve McCartney

 

1:15-1:45

Scott Myers (UT Austin)

Gaps in Factorial Typology: The Case of Voicing in Consonant Clusters

 

1:45-2:15

Jeremy Boyd (UC San Diego)

Results from a GLA Model of Onset Acquisition: Do English s-Clusters Differ Structurally from Other Consonant Sequences?

 

2:15-2:45

Diana Archangeli (U of Arizona)

Kinande Vowel Harmony

 

2:45-3:00

Break

 

 

Chair: Jeremy Boyd

 

3:00-3:30

Hajime Ono (UC Irvine)

Sino-Japanese and a Way to Shape up the Stems

 

3:30-4:00

Bella Feng (USC)

Existential and Universal Anchoring: A Case Study of Chinese Diminutive Affixation

4:00-4:30

Megan Crowhurst (UT Austin)

Mora Alignment

 

 

 

March 2 (Saturday)

 

8:30

Registration

 

 

Chair: Kristie McCrary

 

9:00-9:30

Kie Zuraw (USC)

Inheritance of Exceptionality by the Reduplicant in Palauan

 

9:30-10:00

Nicole Nelson (UC Irvine)

Exploring the Differences between Fixed-Segment and Reduplicative Affixation

 

10:00-10:30

Jason Riggle (UCLA)

Syncope vs. Infixation: Reduplication in Pima

 

10:30-10:45

Break

 

 

Chair: Bella Feng

 

10:45-11:15

Catherine Hicks Kennard (U of Arizona)

Copy but Don’t Repeat: the Conflict of Dissimilation and Reduplication in the Tawala Durative

 

11:15-11:45

Maki Irie (UC Irvine)

The Patterns of Fox Reduplication

 

11:45-12:15

Tania Granadillo (U of Arizona)

H-alignment in Kurripako-Ehe: the Limits of Formal Analysis and the Necessity of Cultural Knowledge

 

12:15-1:30

Lunch

 

 

 

PARASESSION

“Stress in Optimality Theory”

 

Chair: Scott Myers

 

1:30-2:30

Invited Talk

Megan Crowhurst and Lev Michael (UT Austin)

Iterative Footing and Peak Prominence in Nanti (Kampa)

 

2:30-3:00

Laura MacGarity (Indiana University)

On the Typological Predictions of Fixed vs. Complementary Rankings of Stress Constraints

 

3:00-3:15

Break

 

 

Chair: Jean-Pierre Montreuil

 

3:15-3:45

Rusty Barrett (U of Michigan)

Mora alignment and multiple foot types in K'ichee'

 

3:45-4:15

Gail Coelho (UT Austin)

Conflicting Directionality in Thompson River Salish

 

4:15-4:45

Colleen Fitzgerald (U of Buffalo)

Covert Quantity Sensitivity in Tohono O'odham

 

6:00

Party

 

 

 

March 3 (Sunday)

 

Chair: Gail Coelho

 

9:00-9:30

Nancy Hall (U of Massachusetts)

Categorical vs. Violable Invisibility: the Case of svarabhakti

 

9:30-10:00

Philip Monahan (U of Florida)

Metrical Structure and Vowel Harmony in Palestinian Arabic

 

10:00-10:30

Ann Delilkan (New York University)

Stress Placement in Complex Words in Malay

 

10:30-10:45

Break

 

 

Chair: Megan Crowhurst

 

10:45-11:15

Bob Kennedy (U of Arizona)

Stress and Allomorphy in Woleaian Reduplication

 

11:15-11:45

Jean-Pierre Montreuil (UT Austin)

 "Phonological" Stress and the Selkirkian Foot in French

 

11:45-12:15

Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins University)

Phonology and Phonetics in English Stress and Vowel Reduction

 

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