20.3386, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax/USA

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Subject: 20.3386, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax/USA

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Date: 08-Oct-2009
From: Sabine Iatridou < iatridou at mit.edu >
Subject: 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
 

	
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From: Sabine Iatridou [iatridou at mit.edu]
Subject: 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society

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40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 
Short Title: NELS 40 

Date: 13-Nov-2009 - 15-Nov-2009 
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact: NELS 40 
Contact Email: nels40 at mit.edu 
Meeting URL: http://web.mit.edu/nels40/nels40/home.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society:

November 13-15, 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

The preliminary program of the general session of NELS40 has now been posted,
along with the programs of the  workshop on Phonological Similarity and the
workshop on Pronouns. On-line registration is also available now, with reduced
rates until October 31, 2009.

Friday

8:30-9:15
Registration and Breakfast

9:15-9:30
Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30
Session Chair: Claire Halpert
Session Chair: Jeremy Hartman
Explaining Non-native Consonant Cluster Processing, Lisa Davidson (NYU) & Colin
Wilson (Johns Hopkins)
The Syntax of Comparative Numerals, Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago)
Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate Effect, Josef Fruehwald, Jonathan
Gress-Wright, & Joel Wallenberg (UPenn)
Irreversible Binding, Martha McGinnis (University of Calgary)

10:30-11:00
Break

11:00-12:30
Chair: Gillian Gallagher
Chair Pritty Patel-Grosz
Learning a Novel Accent: Implicit Acquisition of Phonological Alternations,
Katrin Skoruppa & Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP Paris)
Wh-reciprocals, Quantifier Raising, and Phrasehood, Ryan Bennett (UCSC)
Naïve Parameter Learning for Optimality Theory - The Hidden Structure Problem,
Gaja Jarosz (Yale)
Ways of Wh-coordination, Barbara Citko (University of Washington) & Martina
Gracanin-Yuksek (METU)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Fricative Non-neutralization in Turkish, Andreea
Nicolae & Andrew Nevins (Harvard) 
On the Nature and Distribution of Successive Cyclicity, Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)

12:30-2:00
Lunch

2:00-3:30
Chair: Peter Graff
Chair: Iain Giblin
Challenging Locality in Constraint Indexation: Epenthesis in the Vedic Perfect,
Adam Cooper (Cornell)
The Non-existence of a Phi-feature Dependency Between Tº and Cº, Liliane
Haegeman (Ghent) & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht)
Initial Syllable Faithfulness as the Best Model of Word-size Effects in
Alternations, Michael Becker & Andrew Nevins (Harvard)
Agree to Remain Silent: The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis, Lobke Aelbrecht (Ghent)
Underapplication of Vowel Reduction in Majorcan Catalan and in other Romance
Languages, Clàudia Pons Moll (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Variability in Icelandic Agreement: An Interaction of DP Licensing and Multiple
Agree, Cherlon Ussery (Carleton College)

3:30-4:00
Break

4:00-5:00
Chair: Bronwyn Bjorkman
Chair: Luka Crnic
Conflicting Directionality and Root-accent Contrast in Interior Salish, Keith
Plaster (Harvard)
On 'Restricted Degrees', Alexander Grosu (Tel Aviv University) & Hadas Kotek (MIT)
Exceptions in Stress Assignment: Feet in Input, Öner Özçelik (McGill)
Do Children Know when their Room Counts as Clean?, Francesca Foppolo & Francesca
Panzeri (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)

5:00
Michael Ullman (Georgetown), Memory, Language, Brain and Sex followed by
commentator-led discussion with commentator Adam Albright

Saturday

8:30-9:30
Breakfast

9:30-10:30
Chair: Maria Giavazzi
Chair: Michael Erlewine
To Alternate or Not to Alternate: What is the Boundary?, Jennifer Michaels (MIT)
Plural Epistemic Indefinites, Luis Alonso-Ovalle (UMass Boston) & Paula
Menendez-Benito (Goettingen), 
Morpho-Phonological Edge Effects and their Implications, Eva Dobler (McGill)
Epsitemic Modality and Indexicality, Vincent Homer (UCLA)

10:30-11:00
Break

11:00-12:30
Chair: Jonah Katz 
Chair: Tue Trinh
Morphological Alternations at the Intonational Phrase Edge (in K'ichee'), Robert
Henderson (UCSC)
Shifted Indexicals in Uyghur, Kirill Shklovsky & Yasutada Sudo (MIT)
Recursivity and Binarity in Prosodic Phrasing: Evidence from Connemara Irish,
Emily Elfner (UMass Amherst/UCSC)
Counterfactuals, Negation, and Polarity, Michela Ippolito & Julia Su (University
of Toronto)
Prosodic Effects in Word Order: Evidence from Ukranian, Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina
(Reed, SUNY Stonybrook) & Roksolana Mykhaylyk (SUNY Stonybrook)
Non-restrictive Relative Clauses within a Unidimensional Semantics, Philippe
Schlenker (CNRS)

12:30-2:00
Lunch

2:00-3:30
Chair: Natasha Ivlieva
Chair: Marie-Christine Meyer
Prepositional Versus Verbal Causitivizers, Miyoko Yasui (Dokkyo)
Disjunction in Wh-questions, Andreas Haida & Sophie Repp (Humboldt University,
Berlin)
The Syntax of Syncretism, Bronwyn Bjorkman (MIT)
Some Observations on the Semantic Types of Question-embedding Verbs, Lance
Nathan (Northeastern)
On Inflectional and Derivational Diminutives, Marijke De Belder
(CRISSP/Utrecht/HUBrussels), Noam Faust (Université Paris VII), & Nicola
Lampitelli (Université Paris VII)
Quantificational Properties of Ne-Wh Items in Russian, Natalia Kondrashova
(University of MIchigan) & Radek Simik (Groningen)

3:30-4:00
Break

4:00-5:00
Chair Alexander Podobraev
Chair: Hadas Kotek
Meaning Targets in Syntax and Morphology: A Study of Hupa Agreement, Amy
Campbell (UC Berkeley)
The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers ''bestimmt'' and ''gewiss'',
Christian Ebert (Bielefeld), Cornelia Ebert (Osnabruck), & Stefan Hinterwimmer
(Humboldt University, Berlin)
Elaborations on Cyclic Agree: A Window into Phonology/Syntax Mismatch, Bethany
Lochbihler (McGill)
Two Sides of the Same Pragmatic Move: The German Discourse Particles etwa and
nicht, Simone Gieselman & Ivano Caponigro (UCSD)

5:00
Business Meeting
Party at MIT Museum
Begins 15 minutes after the end of the Business Meeting.
Dinner is included.

Sunday

(The two workshops, on Phonological Similarity and the Semantics Workshop on
Pronouns, will run in parallel to the main session on Sunday.)

8:30-9:30
Breakfast

9:30-10:30
Chair: Kirill Shklovsky
Linearization and the Architecture of Grammar: A View from the Final-over-Final
Constraint, Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge/Stellenbosch), Anders
Holmberg (Newcastle), & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
The Resuscitation of the CED, Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle)

10:30-11:00
Break

11:00-12:30
Chair: Liudmila Nikolaeva
VP-scrambling, Linearization Preservation, and the Theories of Control, Kensuke
Takita (Nanzan)
Paths in Remnant Movement: A Single Solution to Three Problems in the Polish OVS
syntax, Bartosz Wiland (Poznan)
Testing Greenberg's Universal 18 Using an Artificial Language Learning Paradigm,
Jennifer Culbertson (Johns Hopkins)

12:30-2:00
Break

2:00-3:30
Chair: Sam Al Khatib
Parameterizing Case Theory: Raising Verbs in Bantu, Vicki Carstens (University
of Missouri) & Michael Diercks (Georgetown)
The Crosslinguistic Distribution of Polydefinites: Case and Expletive
Determiners, Marika Lekakou (Meertens Institute) & Kriszta Szendroi (UCL)
A Unified Analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-effects in Barceloni
Catalan, Martin Walkow (UMass Amherst)
Closing Reception





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