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University of Manchester, 21-23 May 1998
| Thursday 21 May 1998 | |
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| 12.00-13.00 | REGISTRATION |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |
| 14.00-14.45 | Yoruba infants and unchained melody - Phil Harrison (University College London) |
| 14.45-15.30 | P-licensing of word-final empty nuclei - Monik Charette (SOAS) |
| 15.30-16.15 | "Branching onsets" do not branch - John Rennison (University of Vienna) |
| 16.15-16.30 | TEA |
| 16.30-17.15 | Preserving the word - John Harris (University College London) & Geoff Lindsey (City University) |
| 17.15-18.00 | On the abstract nature of harmonic relations - Glyne Piggott (McGill University) |
| 18.00 onwards | Setting up poster display |
| 19.30 | DINNER AT THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S RESIDENCE |
| Friday 22 May 1998 | |
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| 09.00-09.45 | Underspecification & Declarative Phonology: the case of a Norfolk vowel system - Ken Lodge (University of East Anglia, Norwich) |
| 09.45-10.30 | A computational evaluation of Halle's theory of Russian stress assignment - Peter Chew (University of Oxford) |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
| 10.45-11.30 | Phonology, innate endowments and UG - Philip Carr (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) |
| 11.30-13.00 | POSTER SESSION |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |
| 14.00-14.45 | Geminates are not all created equal - Astrid Kraehenmann (Universitat Konstanz) |
| 14.45-15.30 | Epenthesis as evidence of geminate integrity in Finnish - Heli Harrikari (University of Helsinki) |
| 15.30-16.15 | On the acquisition of syllable structure: a case study in onset selection - Ioanna Kappa (University of Crete) |
| 16.15-16.30 | TEA |
| 16.30-17.15 | Onset clusters in the prosodic hierarchy - Antony Dubach Green (Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) |
| 17.15-18.00 | Recursive syllabification in East Perthshire Gaelic - Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) |
| 19.00 | DINNER AT AN INDIAN RESTAURANT |
| Saturday 23 May 1998 | |
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| 09.00-09.45 | Modal Optimality Theory - Nicholas Sherrard (University of Essex) |
| 09.45-10.30 | Harmonic evaluation of lexical items: evidence from Middle English - Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester) |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
| 10.45-11.30 | Suffixes, clitics, stress, and final devoicing in Dutch - Janet Grijzenhout (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) |
| 11.30-12.15 | On the distribution of monosyllabic and disyllabic diminutive suffixes in Dutch - Helga Humbert (Meertens Instituut (KNAW), Amsterdam) |
| 12.15-13.00 | Co-phonologies: The case of Luganda - Francis Katamba (University of Lancaster) |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |