Update March 1, 2014: Papers based on most of the talks, and many of the posters, can be found in the proceedings, linked here. Slides from the McCarthy, Peperkamp and Ryan plenaries are linked below beside their titles.
Saturday, November 9
9-10 Plenary
John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Irreducible Parallelism [Click here for slides]
10-11 Talks
Chair for morning talks: Claire Moore-Cantwell
Gaja Jarosz, Yale University
Ternary constituents are a consequence of mora sluicing [draft]
Ben Hermans, Meertens Institute
Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Meertens Institute
11 -11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Talks
Processing to the beat: metrical segmentation in Dutch, Turkish, Polish and Hungarian
Sandrien van Ommen, UiL OTS, Utrecht University
René Kager, UiL OTS, Utrecht University
Is the domain for weight computation the syllable or the interval?
Aron Hirsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 2:45 Talks
Chair for afternoon talks: Amanda Rysling
Identity preference without the identity effect in Cochabamba Quechua
Gillian Gallagher, NYU
Identity Avoidance and Rendaku [draft]
Shigeto Kawahara, Keio University
Shin-ichiroo Sano, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2:45 – 4:15 Poster session 1
4:15 – 5:15 Talks
Emergent faithfulness to semantic heads in English lexical blends
Katherine Shaw, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew M. White, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Elliott Moreton, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fabian Monrose, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Selectional restrictions as phonotactics over sublexicons [draft]
Maria Gouskova, NYU
Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz, NYU
5:15 – 6:15 Plenary
Kevin Ryan, Harvard University
Onset Weight, word weight, and the perceptual interval [Click here for slides]
7:30 – Dinner, Amherst Brewing Company
Sunday November 10
9 – 10 Plenary
Sharon Peperkamp, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris
Assimilation from the listener’s perspective: adult and infant data [Click here for slides]
10-11 Talks
Chair for morning talks: Presley Pizzo
Icelandic Umlaut as Morpheme-Specific Phonology
Anton Ingason, University of Pennsylvania
Modeling Morphological Subgeneralizations
Claire Moore-Cantwell, UMass Amherst
Robert Staubs, UMass Amherst
11 – 12:15 Poster session 2
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Talks
Chair for afternoon talks: Ivy Hauser
Idiosyncratically transparent vowels in Kazakh [draft]
Samuel R. Bowman, Stanford University
Benjamin Lokshin, Stanford University
A subsegmental correspondence approach to contour tone (dis)harmony patterns
Stephanie Shih, Stanford University
Sharon Inkelas, University of California, Berkeley
What handshape tells us about active versus inactive articulators
Jonathan Keane, University of Chicago
3:00 – 4:15 Poster session 3
4:15 – 5:45 Talks
Learning Phonological Mappings by Learning Strictly Local Functions
Jane Chandlee, University of Delaware
Adam Jardine, University of Delaware
The timecourse of generalization in phonotactic learning
Tal Linzen, New York University
Gillian Gallagher, NYU
The nature of regressions in the acquisition of phonological grammars
Anne-Michelle Tessier, University of Alberta
6 – 7:30 Pizza and business meeting