8.411, Confs: CLS Phonetics, Optimality Theory

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Subject: 8.411, Confs: CLS Phonetics, Optimality Theory

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1)
Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 01:07:58 -0600
From:  Rachel Hemphill <rmhemphi at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject:  CLS Phonetics Panel schedule

2)
Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:37:03 -0500 (EST)
From:  h-ot-97 at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu
Subject:  OT Workshop Preliminary Program & Info

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 01:07:58 -0600
From:  Rachel Hemphill <rmhemphi at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject:  CLS Phonetics Panel schedule


               The Chicago Linguistic Society Phonetics Panel:
                               ChiPhon 97
                        Saturday April 19, 1997

THE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH AND OTHER ACOUSTIC SIGNALS
Is the perception of speech special, taking place within a module that
is specifically dedicated to the perception of phonetic as opposed to
general acoustic signals?  Is there a continuum of language and
general cognitive processing?  What constitutes evidence and
counter-evidence for these heoretical positions?

Judd Hall, University of Chicago
8:45	Panel welcome
9 am 	Robert Fox (Ohio State University), Jeanne Gokcen (Lucent
        Technologies), and Sheri Wagner (Ohio State University)
	Neurological Evidence for a Speech Module?
10 am 	Howard Nusbaum, Alex Francis, and Tracy Luks (University of Chicago)
	Speech Perception:  A Special Mechanism or a Specialized Cognitive
        Process?
10:30 	Terrance M. Nearey (University of Alberta)
	Modularity and Tractability in Speech Perception
11 am	Karen L. Landahl and Eric P. Hamp. (University of Chicago)
	Gravity without Levity
11:30 	Ho-hsien Pan (National Chiao Tung University)
	The Salience of Nasal Cues to the Perception of Taiwanese Voiced Stops
        and Nasals
12 pm 	lunch
1 pm	Peter MacNeilage (University of  Texas at Austin)
        The Relation between Speech Perception and Production in Phylogeny
        and Ontogeny
2 pm 	Andrew Lotto, Keith Kluender, and Lori Holt (University of Wisconsin
        at Madison)
	Animal Models of Speech Perception Phenomena
2:30 	Dan Margoliash (University of Chicago)
	Linkages Between Production and Perception in Animals: The Motor
        Theory of Birdsong Perception Revisited
3:10	Break
3:30	Rachel Hemphill, Yukari Hirata, Karen Landahl, Joanna Lowenstein,
        and Audra Dainora (University of Chicago)
	Questioning the Continuum:  The Use of V[r/l][d/g]V Evidence in
        Gestural Theories of Speech Perception
4 pm	Douglas H. Whalen (Haskins Laboratories)
        What Duplex Perception Tells Us About Speech Perception
4:30	Mark Randolph (Motorola Corporation)
	Title T.B.A
5 pm	General Discussion
6 pm	Dinner

For more information on ChiPhon and for registration materials,  see
our web site at: http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/~alfr/chiphon/
For additional information,  contact Rachel Hemphill:
rmhemphi at midway.uchicago.edu


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Date:  Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:37:03 -0500 (EST)
From:  h-ot-97 at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu
Subject:  OT Workshop Preliminary Program & Info


                  HOPKINS OPTIMALITY THEORY WORKSHOP/
                  UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MAYFEST 1997
		             May 8-12, 1997

  Preliminary program and information regarding workshop registration,
     hotel accommodation, and travel to Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Workshop topics span syntax, learning, processing, and phonology;
32 contributed posters are featured, in addition to 34 invited talks
and an introductory tutorial.  See http://www.cogsci.jhu.edu/h-ot-97/.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (titles are tentative)

  THURSDAY May 8

    7:30-9:30pm TUTORIAL: Optimality Theory (for syntacticians and others)
                Paul Smolensky
                [To attend, email h-ot-97 at cogsci.jhu.edu, stating number
		of attendees, as special arrangements may need to be made.]

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  FRIDAY MAY 9

    8:45 am     Registration

   SESSION 1:  SYNTAX
    9:00        Opening Remarks
    9:10-9:50   David Pesetsky (MIT)
                The Interpretation of Shortest Move Violations

    9:50-10:30  Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts)
                Case Patterns

    10:30-10:50 Break

   SESSION 2:  SYNTAX
    10:50-11:30 Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University of Konstanz)
                Linguistic Typologies determined by Opposite
                Constraints: Mixed Focus Alignment in Kanakuru

    11:30-12:10 Hye-Won Choi (University of Southern California)
                Focus Scrambling and Reconstruction in Binding

    12:10-1:30  Lunch

   SESSION 3:  PROCESSING
    1:30-2:10   Amy Weinberg (University of Maryland)
                Local Optimization and Economy in a Minimalist Parser
    2:10-2:50   Suzanne Stevenson (Rutgers University) and
                Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University)
                Optimal Sentence Processing
    2:50-3:30   Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University) and
                Giorgio Satta (University of Padua)
                The Generative Complexity of Constraint Violability

    3:30-3:50   Break

   SESSION 4:  SYNTAX
    3:50-4:30   Sten Vikner (University of Stuttgart/NIAS Wassenaar)
                V-to-I Movement, 'do'-Insertion, and the Head
                Movement Constraint in OT
    4:30-5:10   Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University)
                Towards a Typology of Clitic Placement in Balkan Languages

    5:10-5:30   Break

   SESSION 5:  SYNTAX
    5:30-6:10   Peter Sells (Stanford)
                The Typology of Grammatical Voice Systems Revisited

    6:10-6:50   Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University)
                Multiple Optimization and Chamorro Anaphora

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  SATURDAY    MAY 10

    8:45      am Registration

   SESSION 6:  SYNTAX
    9:00-9:40   Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers University)
    9:40-10:20  Margaret Speas (University of Massachusetts)
                Constraining Violable Constraints

    10:20-10:40 Break

   SESSION 7:  SYNTAX
    10:40-11:20 Joan Bresnan (Stanford)
                The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun
    11:20-12:00 Judith Aissen (University of California, Santa Cruz)
                Passive and Inverse from a Typological Perspective

    12:00-1:30  Lunch

   SESSION 8:  LEARNING
    1:30-2:10   Peter Jusczyk and Paul Smolensky
                (Johns Hopkins University)
                Do Infants Respect NOCODA?
    2:10-2:50   Joseph Pater (University of British Columbia)
                Child Nasal Harmony as Prophylaxis

    2.50-4:00   Break
                POSTER SESSION: Syntax/Phonology I

   SESSION 9:  LEARNING
    4:10-4:50   Katherine Demuth (Brown University)
                Variation, Acquisition, and Optimality
    4:50-5:30   Bruce Tesar (Rutgers University)
                The Role of Optimality in Language Learning

    5:30-6:00   Break

   SESSION 10: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
    6:00-7:00   Alan Prince (Rutgers University)

    8:15 >      PARTY

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  SUNDAY      MAY 11

    8:45 am     Registration

   SESSION 11: PHONOLOGY
     9:00-10:00 John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts)
    		Sympathy and Phonological Opacity
    10:00-10:40 Cheryl Zoll (MIT)
                West African Sandhi and Featural Faithfulness

    10:40-11:00 Break

   SESSION 12: PHONOLOGY
    11:00-11:40 Linda Lombardi (University of Maryland) and
                Diamandis Gafos (University of Massachusetts)
                Markedness and Coronal Sonorants
    11:40-12:20 Junko Ito and Armin Mester
                (University of California, Santa Cruz)
                Prosodic Interludes

    12:20-2:00  Lunch

   SESSION 13: PHONOLOGY
    2:00-2:40   Diamandis Gafos (University of Massachusetts)
                Inferring A-templatic Reduplicative Affixation: A
                Lexical Parameter Learnability Result
    2:40-3:20   Jaye Padgett (University of California, Santa Cruz)
                Candidates as Systems: Saussure Lives!

    3:20-4:40   Break
                POSTER SESSION: Phonology II

   SESSION 14: PHONOLOGY
    4:40-5:20   Jill Beckman (University of Iowa)
                Positional Faithfulness
    5:20-6:00   Moira Yip (University of California, Irvine)
                An OT Typology of Dialect Variation in Nasalization

    6:00-8:00   Dinner

   SESSION 15: PHONOLOGY
    8:00-8:40   Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins University)
                Derived Environments
    8:40-9:20   Laura Benua (University of Maryland)
                Affix Classes are Defined by Faithfulness: English
                Word Formation in Parallel Grammar

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  MONDAY      MAY 12

   SESSION 16: PHONOLOGY
     9:30-10:10 Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)
    10:10-10:50 Edward Flemming (Stanford)
                Deriving Natural Classes in Phonology

    10:50-11:10 Break

   SESSION 17: PHONOLOGY
    11:10-11:50 Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University)
                Local Conjunction
    11:50-12:30 Sharon Inkelas and Larry Hyman
                (University of California, Berkeley)
                Emergent Templates: The Unusual Case of Tiene

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WORKSHOP SITE AND ACCOMODATIONS
    H-OT-97 will be held  at the Baltimore Hilton and Towers
    (formerly known as the Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore Hotel),
    20 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore MD 21201; (410) 539-8400,
    1-800-HILTONS. This restored old hotel is located in downtown
    Baltimore adjacent to the Inner Harbor. A block of rooms has been
    reserved for the nights of May 8-12 at a special rate of
    $119/night plus tax (single to quadruple occupancy; roll-aways
    can be added for $10/nights). Participants should call the hotel
    directly, BY APRIL 9, to make reservations. Participants
    interested in sharing a room should consult the H-OT-97 Web page
    where roommate information is kept up-to-date.

REGISTRATION
    To pre-register, BY APRIL 9 send your physical and electronic
    mail addresses, your phone number, and the dates you expect to
    participate to H-OT-97: Cognitive Science Department, Johns
    Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Please enclose $25
    (for faculty/postdocs; $15 for others) to help defray the cost of
    printing, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and a Saturday
    night workshop party. Registration at the door will also be
    possible at $35 for faculty/postdocs and $20 for others. Checks
    should be payable to Johns Hopkins University.

PHOTOCOPYING
    Kinko's, open 24 hours, is located within walking distance of the
    hotel at 300 North Charles St. They claim to have PCs, Macs,
    laser printing, and WordPerfect: (410) 625-5862.

TRAVEL TIPS
    Arriving by air: the local airport is BWI (Baltimore-Washington
    International) Airport. If you arrive at one of the two
    Washington D.C. airports (National or Dulles) you should plan on
    renting a car or take a shuttle to BWI (the latter will
    significantly lengthen your trip). The hotel is located
    approximately 15 minutes from BWI Airport (and more than an hour
    from National or Dulles). The BWI airport Shuttle Express offers
    a shuttle service to downtown hotels (every half hour) at the
    cost of $11 one-way ($17 round-trip). A cab ride should be less
    if you share it with several other participants.

    Arriving by train: the closest Amtrak station is Baltimore Penn
    Station, located north of downtown. Take a cab for a 5 minute
    ride to the hotel.

    Arriving by car:
         a) From the North or South: Follow I-95 to exit 53 (I-395N).
    I-395N will become Howard St. Follow Howard St. to Baltimore St.
    Turn right onto Baltimore St. Follow it 2 blocks to Hanover St.
    Turn Left onto Hanover St.
    Hotel is on the right.
         b) From downtown Washington D.C., BWI Airport: Follow Rte. 295
    (Baltimore-Washington Parkway) North to Baltimore. Once inside
    the city limits 295 will become Russell St. When Russell St.
    crosses Pratt St. it becomes Paca St. Turn right onto Baltimore
    St. Follow to Hanover St. and turn left. Hotel is on your right.
         c) From the West: Take I-70 East to I-695 South (marked Glen
    Burnie). Follow I-695 to I-95 North. Follow I-95 North to exit 53
    (I-395N). I-395N will become Howard St. Follow Howard St. to
    Baltimore St. Turn right onto Baltimore St. Follow it 2 blocks to
    Hanover St. Turn Left onto Hanover St. Hotel is on the right.
         d) From I-83 (York, Harrisburg, South Central Pennsylvania):
    Follow I-83 South to the end and turn right onto Fayette St. Go 7
    blocks to Liberty St. and turn left. Make next left onto
    Baltimore St. and next left at Hanover St. Hotel is on the right.
         Valet parking is available at the hotel. Pay parking is also
    available nearby.

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ORGANIZERS
    Geraldine Legendre            Laura Benua
    Paul Smolensky                Linda Lombardi
     Cognitive Science Department  Linguistics Department
     Johns Hopkins                 University of Maryland

SPONSORS
    Johns Hopkins University
       Office of the Provost
       College of Arts & Sciences
       Center for Language and Speech Processing
       Cognitive Science Department
    University of Maryland, College Park
       Linguistics Department
       College of Arts and Humanities

CONTACT ADDRESS
    H-OT-97
    Cognitive Science Department
    Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, MD 21093-2685
    (410) 526-5247
    h-ot-97 at cogsci.jhu.edu
    http://www.cogsci.jhu.edu/h-ot-97/

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