7.461, Confs: Fourth Phonology Meeting, Manchester

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Subject: 7.461, Confs: Fourth Phonology Meeting, Manchester
 
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Date:  Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:11:03 GMT
From:  MFLSTWB at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (Wiebke Brockhaus)
Subject:  Confs: Fourth Phonology Meeting, Manchester
 
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Date:  Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:11:03 GMT
From:  MFLSTWB at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (Wiebke Brockhaus)
Subject:  Confs: Fourth Phonology Meeting, Manchester
 
                   NORTH-WEST CENTRE FOR ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
   University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University,
                          Salford University, UMIST
 
 
                        FOURTH PHONOLOGY MEETING
              Constraints and Representations in Phonology
 
                       University of Manchester
                             16-18 May 1996
 
 
                              FINAL PROGRAMME
 
 
Thursday 16 May
 
12.00-13.00  REGISTRATION
13.00-14.00  BUFFET
14.00-14.55  Plenary Session: Constraints on diphthongisation and
             lengthening in Arawan - Dan Everett (University of
             Pittsburgh)
15.00-15.40  Session A: Pasiego Vowel Harmony, or How OT Can Solve a
             Problem for Unary Feature Theories - Krisztina Polgardi
             (HIL/Leiden University)
             Session B: The syllable of Romanian: another experience
             of deja vu? - Aimee Anastasiu (University of Sussex)
15.40-16.00  TEA
16.00-16.40  Session A: The psychological reality of language-
             specific constraints - John Coleman (University of
             Oxford)
             Session B: Vowel harmony and clitics in Basque -
             Margaret Cobb (SOAS)
16.45-17.25  Session A: Dynamic processes in phonology - Marc Klein
             (Universite de Paris VIII)
             Session B: Phonetic detail, declarative phonology,
             postlexical and lexical processes: a synthesis - Richard
             Ogden (University of York)
17.30-18.30  Plenary Session: Consonantal clusters and governing
             relations: Polish initial consonant sequences - Eugeniusz
             Cyran and Edmund Gussmann (Catholic University of Lublin)
 
             DINNER AT THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S RESIDENCE
 
 
Friday 17 May
 
09.00-09.55  Plenary Session: Constraints on Luganda nasals - Francis
             Katamba (Lancaster University)
10.00-10.40  Session A: A deconstruction of Optimality Theory's
             NOCODA constraint - Randall Gess (University of Utah)
             Session B: The acquisition of melodic primes in infancy
             - Phil Harrison (UCL)
10.45-11.15  COFFEE
11.15-11.55  Session A: taking the phon out of phonology, or, what do
             phonological representations represent? - Sean Jensen
             (SOAS)
             Session B: A constraint-based explanation of stability
             effects in historical phonology - Renate Raffelsiefen
             (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
12.00-12.55  Session A: Optional processes in OT - Roland Noske
             (HIL/University of Leiden)
             Session B: Prosodic waves in Portuguese - Bernard Laks
             (Universite de Paris X)
13.00-14.00  LUNCH
14.00-14.55  Plenary Session: Complex segmental alternations in
             Optimality Theory - Richard Wiese (Philipps-Universitaet
             Marburg)
15.00-15.40  Session A: Another look at French liaison (to be read in
             French) - Pierre Encreve (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en
             Sciences Sociales, Paris)
             Session B: Switching - Monik Charette (SOAS)
15.40-16.00  TEA
16.00-16.40  Session A: Some aspects of representation: abstraction,
             dialect variation in Malay and panlectal grammars - Ken
             Lodge (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
             Session B: Representation as pure markedness - Chris
             Golston (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf)
16.45-17.25  Session A: Romance suffixes in modern English, German
             and Dutch: consequences for cyclicity and level ordering
             - Paula Fikkert (Universitaet Konstanz)
             Session B: The particle representation of place in
             consonants - Judith M. Broadbent (UCL)
17.30-18.30  Plenary Session: Reasoning on conceptual adequacy and
             generative power: strategies for comparing approaches to
             segmental representation - Michael Ingleby*, Wiebke
             Brockhaus** and Carl Chalfont (*University of
             Huddersfield,**University of Manchester)
 
             DINNER AT AN INDIAN RESTAURANT
 
 
Saturday 18 May
 
09.00-09.55  Plenary Session: Source contrasts - John Harris (UCL)
10.00-10.40  Session A: An alternative means of expressing 'manner' -
             Nancy Ritter (New York University)
             Session B: Optimality Theory and historical language
             change - John Hutton (University of Manchester)
10.45-11.15  COFFEE
11.15-11.55  Session A: Constraints on complexity in the Berawan word
             - Paloma Garcia-Bellido (University of Oxford)
             Session B: The representation of a tonal contrast in
             British Panjabi -  Jane Stuart-Smith (University of
             Birmingham)
12.00-12.55  Plenary Session: Symmetry in phonological structure -
             Harry van der Hulst (HIL/University of Leiden)
13.00-14.00  BUFFET LUNCH
 
 
Organised by:
Wiebke Brockhaus (University of Manchester)
Jacques Durand (University of Salford)
Marc Klein (Universite de Paris VIII)
Bernard Laks (Universite de Paris X)
Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
 
For further information please contact Wiebke Brockhaus.
 
 
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(Dr) Wiebke Brockhaus         tel: +44 (0)161 275 3180 (direct line)
Department of German          tel: +44 (0)161 275 3182 (secretary)
University of Manchester      fax: +44 (0)161 275 3031
Manchester                    e-mail: Wiebke.Brockhaus at man.ac.uk
M13 9PL
UK
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