17.1484, Confs: Phonology/Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-1484. Sun May 14 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.1484, Confs: Phonology/Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Date: 10-May-2006
From: Mark Hale < hale1 at modlang-hale.concordia.ca >
Subject: 4th North American Phonology Conference 

	
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Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:42:35
From: Mark Hale < hale1 at modlang-hale.concordia.ca >
Subject: 4th North American Phonology Conference 
 



4th North American Phonology Conference 
Short Title: NAPhC4 

Date: 12-May-2006 - 14-May-2006 
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
Contact: Mark Hale 
Contact Email: hale1 at modlang-hale.concordia.ca 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc4.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

The Linguistics Program at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec
will host the Fourth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC) from
May 12-14th, 2006. Abstract submission is invited on any area of
theoretical phonology, or related disciplines. 

The Fourth North American Phonology Conference
Concordia University, Linguistics Program
May 12-14 2006

All talks will take place in EV 3.309 
on the third floor of the new Engineering
and Visual Arts Building, 1515 St. Catherine W.

Friday, May 12
1:00-1:30 
Registration
1:30-1:45 
Introductory Remarks (Charles Reiss, Concordia U)
1:45-2:30 
Heather Newell and Glyne Piggot (McGill), Achieving explanatory 
     adequacy: the form-meaning correlation in Ojibwa possessive 
     constructions
2:30-3:15 
Feng-fan Hsieh (MIT), Arguing BR-Identity: Evidence from rGyalrong
3:15-3:45 
Break
3:45-4:30 
Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University), Prosody-melody 
     interaction determines directionality of assimilation
4:30-5:30 
Invited Speaker, Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)

Saturday, May 13
9:30-10:15
Irene Barberia (Deusto/Illinois), More on hiatus resolution 
     in Spanish: vowel deletion
10:15-11:00 
Lee Bickmore (Albany), Vowel length alternations in Chilungu
     (Zambian Bantu)
11:00-11:30 
Break
11:30-12:15 
Nazarre Merchant and Bruce Tesar (Rutgers), Using local lexica 
     to learn ranking information and underlying feature values
12:15-1:00 
Marie-Helene Cote (Ottawa), The French schwa and 
     the nature of the syntax-phonology interface
1:00-2:30 
Lunch
2:30-3:15 
Gabriel Poliquin and Andrew Nevins (Harvard), Rule ordering 
     as serial conflict resolution: evidence from the Bible and from Canada
3:15-4:00 
Bert Vaux (Cambridge), What L2 phenomena reveal about 
     phonological cognition
4:00-4:30 
Break
4:30-5:30 
Invited Speaker: Gene Buckley (Penn), Simplicity and Explanation 
     in Metrical Typology

Sunday, May 14
9:30-10:15 
Madelyn Kissock (Oakland), Microvariation and Phonological Features
10:15-11:00 
Charles Cairns (CUNY) and Eric Raimy (Swarthmore), Raimy rules 
     in Spokane, Attic Greek, and elsewhere
11:00-11:30 
Break
11:30-12:30 
Invited Speaker: Curt Rice (Tromso)
12:30-12:45 
Concluding Nonscientific Postscript (Mark Hale)





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