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MUMM May 9

MUMM (the MIT-located version of UMMM) takes place this Saturday, May 9. Here's the schedule:

11:00 Emily Elfner Harmonic Serialism and stress-epenthesis interactions in Levantine Arabic
11:45 Bronwyn Bjorkman (MIT) Uniform exponence and reduplication: evidence from Kinande
12:30 Patrick Jones (MIT) The evidence for the phonological stem in Kinande
1:15-2:30 lunch
2:30 Anne Pycha (Penn/UMass) The role of acoustic shape in phonological grammar: evidence from eye tracking
3:15 Hyesun Cho (MIT) The problem of generalization in a statistical learning model of phonotactics
4:00 break
4:30 Brian Smith (UMass) The null parse in Harmonic Grammar
5:15 Karen Jesney (UMass) Licensing in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar

Talks are 30 mins, followed by 10 mins discussion, 5 mins walking about.

[Thanks John!]