Roger Higgins Colloquium
F. Roger Higgins
UMass Amherst (retired)
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06:32 (2008-11-20)
November 20, 2008
UMMM This Saturday
UMMM (UMass Amherst MIT Meeting in Phonology) will be held this Saturday, November 22, in the lounge on the third floor of South College. The post-workshop party will be at John Kingston's.
| 9:30-10:10 | Jonah Katz (MIT) | Phonetic similarity in an English hip-hop corpus |
| 10:15-10:55 | Diana Apoussidou (UMass Amherst) | Modeling allomorphy with lexical constraints |
| 10:55-11:10 | Break | |
| 11:10-11:50 | Hrayr Khanjian (MIT) | Western Armenian once-stressed vowels |
| 11:55-12:35 | Peter Jurgec (UMass Amherst) | Autosegmental spreading is a binary relation |
| 12:35-2:45 | Lunch | |
| 2:45-3:25 | Michael Key (UMass Amherst) | Dialect-specific perception: "ar"-epenthesis and "a<r>" deletion in Boston English |
| 3:30-4:10 | Gillian Gallagher (MIT) | Perception and contrast in laryngeal (dis)harmony |
| 4:10-4:25 | Break | |
| 4:25-5:05 | Wendell Kimper (UMass Amherst) | Markedness-on-markedness variation: Some implications for serialism and convergence |
| 5:10-5:50 | Tara McAllister (MIT) | Fricative neutralization in strong position in child phonology |
[Thanks John K!]
Syntax Reading Group
From Annahita:
Please join us for a special Thanksgiving edition of syntax reading group, to be held on Tuesday, November 25, at 8:00 pm, at Amy Rose's house in NoHo. The main course will be Kyle Johnson's review of Kayne's book The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Johnson, Kyle. 1997. A review of The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Lingua 102:21-53). Warm beverages may also be on the menu, and other contributions (of the edible variety) are also welcome as always.
Pruitt and Kimper at The Sixth Old World Conference in Phonology
Kathryn Pruitt and Wendell Kimper are presenting papers at the The Sixth Old World Conference in Phonology, January 21-24, 2009. Kathryn's paper is titled 'Parallelism vs. serialism in stress assignment', and Wendell's is titled 'Deriving local optionality: harmonic serialism and phonological variation'.
Chris Potts at Univerity of Michigan Philosophy
Chris Potts will be at the University of Michigan Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop on Implicatures this weekend. His task is to comment on a paper by Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides. He has written a short paper, Indirect answers and cooperation, to serve as the basis for the commentary.
UUSLAW Scheduled for December 6 at Smith
UUSLAW (the UMass Amherst-UConn-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) is scheduled to take place on December 6 at Smith College. Write to Tom Roeper and Jill de Villiers if you'd like to present. Tom writes, "It is a good time to expose pilot work or a planned experiment for some feedback as well as more extensive results. Theoretical work is also welcome."
[Thanks Tom!]