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Workshop on Phonological Acquisition

On April 8, a workshop on phonological acquisition will take place at the UMass Amherst Department of Linguistics. The presenters are students at UMass and Brown, along with Claartje Levelt, who is visiting Brown this year. All are welcome to attend. The schedule is below; talks will last 25 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions.

The workshop will take place in the lounge of the new wing of the department, on the 3rd floor of South College.

1:00-1:35 Claartje Levelt, Leiden The development of schwa in Dutch child language
1:35-2:10 Elizabeth McCullogh, Brown The acquisition of word-final clusters in French
2:10-2:20 short break
2:20-2:55 Della Chambless, UMass Amherst Prosodic effects in medial cluster reduction
2:55-3:30 Jae Yung Song, Brown Early representation of English prosodic structure: Evidence from compensatory vowel lengthening for omitted word-final codas
3:30-4:05 Karen Jesney, UMass Amherst Child chain shifts as faithfulness to input prominence
4:05-4:25 longer break
4:25-5:00 Katherine White, Brown Statistical learning of phonological alternations
5:00-5:35 Sharon Goldwater, Brown Bayesian modeling for word and morpheme segmentation

[Thanks Joe!]

March 30, 2006 12:21 AM | 04:09 (2006-03-30) , events