6th Annual Workshop on Comparative Linguistics

[Martha Ratliff]

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The 6th Annual Workshop on Comparative Linguistics -- "Prosody and Language
Change" -- will be held in Detroit, Michigan on November 15-16, 1997 under
the sponsorship of the Wayne State University Linguistics Program. The
workshop will be held at the River Place Hotel in Detroit.  Should you wish
to attend and are from out of area, you will need to make a reservation at
the River Place Hotel by Tuesday, October 14th in order to get the reduced
rate of $79/room (regardless of number of guests).  Please call
1-800-890-9505 and say that you are attending the "Wayne State University
linguistics meeting".  Should you have further questions, please contact me
by email.
 
Yours,  Martha Ratliff (martha_ratliff at wayne.edu)
 
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6th Annual Workshop on Comparative Linguistics
 
"Prosody and Language Change"
 
Sponsored by the Linguistics Program, College of Liberal Arts, and the
Office of Research and Graduate Studies at Wayne State University
 
The River Place Hotel
The Huron Room
November 15-16, 1997
 
Friday, November 14th
from 7 p.m. on . . .    Informal socializing in the Tavern, the River Place
Hotel
 
Saturday, November 15th
8:00-8:35               Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
8:35-8:45               Welcoming Remarks
 
SESSION 1:  METER
8:45-9:30               "Vedic meter and the reflexes of Indo-European
laryngeals"              Gary Holland, University of California, Berkeley
 
9:30-10:15              "A new approach to the Saturnian verse"
                        Jedidiah Parsons, University of California, Berkeley
 
10:15-10:35             Discussion (Brian Joseph, Ohio State University)
 
10:35-10:55             BREAK
 
SESSION 2:  PITCH ACCENT
10:55-11:40             "Relating stress, tone and stod in Scandinavian"
                        Tomas Riad, University of Stockholm
 
11:40-12:00             Discussion (Joe Salmons, University of Wisconsin)
 
12:00-1:30              LUNCH
 
SESSION 3:  REGISTER AND TONE
1:30-2:15               "Registrogenesis as part of a complex of
transphonologization processes"
                        Keith Denning, Eastern Michigan University
 
2:15-3:00               "Genesis and evolution in register and tone
systems: the processes and their reconstruction"
                        Graham Thurgood, California State University, Fresno
 
3:00-3:45               "Segment, tone, and prosody in the history of Chinese"
                        William Baxter, University of Michigan
 
3:45-4:05               Discussion (Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University)
 
4:05-4:25               BREAK
 
SESSION 4:  LENGTH AND REACH
4:25-5:10               "The natural history of geminates"
                        Paul Newman, Indiana University
 
5:10-5:55               "From morphology to phonology, but within the same
prosodic domain: on the differential (in)stability of the factors
conditioning                    German umlaut"
                        Richard Janda, University of Chicago
 
5:55-6:15               Discussion
 
7:30    DINNER at Jacoby's Restaurant, Detroit
Cost:  $18 per person (notify Martha Ratliff by 11/7 of your intention to come)
 
Sunday, November 16th
8:00-8:45               Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
SESSION 5:  PHONETICS OF PROSODY
8:45-9:30               "The place of phonetics in the recovery of stress,
accent, and other prosodic structures"
                        Mary Beckman, Ohio State University
 
9:30-9:50               Discussion (Michael Broe, Northwestern University)
 
SESSION 6:  SYLLABLE AND WORD STRUCTURE
9:50-10:35              "Prosodic units in diachronic templates"
                        Marlys Macken, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
10:35-10:55             BREAK
 
10:55-11:40             "Syllable reduction in Rejang and Malay"
                        Richard McGinn, Ohio University
 
11:40-12:25     "Stress and the development of disyllabic vocabulary in
Chinese"
                        San Duanmu, University of Michigan
 
12:25-12:45             Discussion (Mary Niepokuj, Purdue University)
 
 
End of Workshop