30.1391, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/USA

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Subject: 30.1391, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/USA

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:46:59
From: Florian Lionnet [flionnet at princeton.edu]
Subject: Princeton Phonology Forum

 
Princeton Phonology Forum 
Short Title: PɸF 2019 

Date: 05-Apr-2019 - 06-Apr-2019 
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA 
Contact: Florian Lionnet 
Contact Email: flionnet at princeton.edu 
Meeting URL: https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

The first meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2019) will be held at
Princeton University on April 5-6, 2019. The theme for PɸF 2019 is “the
representation of gradience in phonology”. Representations are a crucial
component of phonological theory. Most of the representations that we use
today (segments, features, Autosegmental representations, etc.) were developed
before the advent of Optimality Theory, which temporarily switched the focus
of the discipline from representations to grammatical architecture and
computation. 

Several recent independent research programs seem to show that the trend may
be changing. Common to all is the idea that phonology needs richer
representations than traditionally assumed. These must include various
properties often not considered to fall within the purview of phonology, such
as: 

- Phonetic details (e.g. subphonemic perceptual and/or articulatory properties
of segments, phonotactic contextual effect)

- Morphological information (e.g. root vs. affix position)

- Strength of phonological activity (e.g. identical segments or features
differing in whether/how often they trigger or undergo certain phonological
processes)

- Frequency, predictability (of lexical items in discourse, of phonemes in the
lexicon, etc.) 

This workshop is meant to foster discussion about the question of phonological
gradience and its representation, around two central questions: what are the
possible sources of gradience in phonology? What kinds of representations (if
any) do we need to account for phonological gradience?

On Friday April 5, the workshop will run from 1:30pm to 6pm, and on Saturday
April 6, 9am to 5pm. Saturday evening, all attendees are invited to join us
for drinks and hors d’oeuvres following the workshop. PɸF will run
concurrently with the second meeting of the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic
Theory (PSST).

Registration is free, but we would appreciate it if those who are planning to
attend would complete the following registration form by March 20, 2019:
http://bit.ly/psst-pff-2019

The schedule, as well as information about transportation, the workshop
location, etc., will all be posted on the workshop website:
https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/

The list of abstracts is available at
https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2019-schedule/#abstracts

Invited Speakers for PɸF 2019:

Sharon Inkelas
John Kingston
Florian Lionnet
Scott Moisik
Claire Moore-Cantwell
Anne Pycha
Stephanie Shih & Hayeun Jang
Caitlin Smith
Paul Smolensky, Matthew Goldrick & Eric Rosen
Sam Tilsen
Rachel Walker
Eva Zimmermann

Workshop organizer:

Florian Lionnet
 

Program:

Friday April 5

1:30 – 1:45:
Opening Remarks

1:45 – 2:30:
Sharon Inkelas: Modeling scalar vowel strength in Q Theory

2:30 – 3:15:
Rachel Walker: Gradient feature activation and the special status of coronals

3:15 – 4:00:
Caitlin Smith: Partial Vowel Height Harmony and Partial Transparency via
Gestural Blending

4:00 – 4:30: Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:15:
Sam Tilsen: Motoric mechanisms for the emergence of non-local phonological
patterns

5:15 – 6:00:
Scott Moisik: Phonology begins in the body: Explorations of laryngeal
quantality

Saturday April 6

9:00 – 9:30: Breakfast

9:30 – 10:15:
Stephanie S Shih & Hayeun Jang: Categoricity in gradience

10:15 – 11:00:
Florian Lionnet: Phonetically grounded gradient faithfulness: the case of
featural affixation in Laal

11:00 – 11:45:
John Kingston: Variability and contrast

11:45 – 1:30: Lunch

1:30 – 2:15:
Paul Smolensky, Matthew Goldrick & Eric Rosen: Gradient symbolic computation
in phonological theory

2:15 – 3:00:
Eva Zimmermann: Gradience in Phonology: The Argument from Exceptions

3:00 – 3:30: Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:15:
Claire Moore-Cantwell: Emergence of lexical idiosyncrasy in language change:
an iterated learning simulation

4:15 – 5:00:
Anne Pycha: Perception and memory of individual morphemes in spoken words: Two
experiments

5:00 – 7:00:
Reception

Full Program and abstracts available on
https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2019-schedule/





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