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<div>(If you are interested in attending the workshop described
below, please contact the organizer, Martha Ratliff, at
<martha_ratliff@wayne.edu>).</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Tenth Annual
Workshop on Comparative Linguistics<br>
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</b></font><font face="Times" size="+3"
color="#000000"><b>Reconstruction Fundamentals<br>
<br>
</b></font><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">The Detroit
Athletic Club<br>
Detroit, Michigan<br>
November 3-4, 2001<br>
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Sponsored by Wayne State University<br>
Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Liberal Arts,
College of Science, Humanities Center, Department of English, and
Linguistics Program<br>
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<u>Saturday, November 3<br>
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</u><i>8:30 - 8:55<x-tab>
</x-tab>Continental Breakfast<br>
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</i>8:55<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Welcome</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">9:00 -
9:45<x-tab> </x-tab>Brian
Joseph<x-tab> </x-tab>The Ohio State
University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
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</x-tab>"The limits of internal reconstruction"</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">9:45 -
10:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Paul
Newman<x-tab> </x-tab>Indiana
University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
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</x-tab>"Internal reconstruction without morpheme
alternants"<br>
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<i>10:30 - 10:45<x-tab>
</x-tab>Break<br>
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</i>10:45 - 11:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Mary
Niepokuj<x-tab> </x-tab>Purdue University<br>
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</x-tab>"How morphology interferes with phonological
reconstruction"<br>
11:30 - 12:15<x-tab>
</x-tab>Hans Henrich Hock<x-tab>
</x-tab>University of Illinois<br>
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</x-tab>"Indo-Europeanists and the development of the 'Aryan
Race' theory"<br>
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<i>12:15 - 1:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch (catered at the
DAC; cost $20 per person)<br>
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</i>1:30 - 2:15<x-tab> </x-tab>William
Baxter<x-tab> </x-tab>University of Michigan<br>
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</x-tab>"Mandarin dialect phylogeny"<br>
2:15 - 3:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Joe
Eska<x-tab>
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</x-tab>Virginia Technological University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Don
Ringe<x-tab> </x-tab>University
of Pennsylvania</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>"The Celtic computational cladistics project: A status
report"<br>
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<i>3:00 - 3:15<x-tab>
</x-tab>Break</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">3:15 -
4:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Brett
Kessler<x-tab> </x-tab>Wayne State University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
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</x-tab>"Determining the statistical significance of sound
correspondences"</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">4:00 -
4:45<x-tab> </x-tab>Paul
Heggarty<x-tab> </x-tab>Cambridge University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>"Quantifying phonetic similarity: How reconstructions
help, and how they gain"</font></div>
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<u>Sunday, November 4<br>
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</u><i>8:30 - 9:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Continental
Breakfast</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">9:00 -
10:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Richard
Janda<x-tab> </x-tab>The Ohio State
University</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>"Reconstruction doth ever prosper: What's the
reason?"</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">10:00 -
11:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Comments by<br>
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</x-tab>Anthony Aristar<x-tab> </x-tab>Wayne State University<br>
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</x-tab>Sally Thomason<x-tab> </x-tab>University of
Michigan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Joe
Salmons<x-tab> </x-tab>University of
Wisconsin</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"><i>End of
Workshop</i></font><br>
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