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| Thursday 18 May 2000 | |
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| 12.00-13.00 | REGISTRATION |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |
| 14.00-14.45 | Tone and prominence: a cross-linguistic perspective - Moira Yip (University of California, Irvine, and University College London) |
| 14.45-15.30 | Towards a typology of prosodically-conditioned length alternations - Evan Mellander (McGill University / The University of Economics, Prague) |
| 15.30-16.15 | Optimality Theory and the problem of constraint aggregation - Daniel Harbour (MIT) & Christian List (University of Oxford) |
| 16.15-16.30 | TEA |
| 16.30-17.15 | On modelling things that didn't happen: OT and palatal diphthongisation - April McMahon (University of Sheffield) |
| 17.15-18.00 | When does synchrony become diachrony? The case of German dorsal fricatives - Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College of Higher Education) |
| 18.00 onwards | Setting up poster display |
| 19.30 | DINNER AT THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S RESIDENCE |
| Friday 19 May 2000 | |
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| 09.00-09.45 | Complex Constraints and Defaults in the Analysis of Conflicting Directionality - Sergio Balari Ravera, Teresa Vallverdu & Rafael Marin (all Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) |
| 09.45-10.30 | Who's your next of kin? Family resemblance in West Germanic Laryngeal Contrasts: Arguments for a uniform representation and against an all too phonetic phonology - Michael Wagner (Universitat Konstanz) |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
| 10.45-11.30 | A grounded account of voicing and devoicing in Germanic obstruent clusters - Wouter Jansen (University of Groningen) |
| 11.30-13.00 | POSTER SESSION |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |
| 14.00-18.00 | Special session on segmental markedness and syllabic position
(organised by Wiebke Brockhaus, Patrick Honeybone and Norval Smith and generously suppported by the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)) |
| 14.00-14.30 | Markedness and alignment - Ellen Broselow (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
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| 14.30-15.00 | Markedness in the nasal component - Bert Botma (University of Amsterdam)
and Erik Jan van der Torre (University of Leiden) abstract
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| 15.00-15.30 | Lenition: the search for a relevant hierarchical framework - Norval Smith
(University of Amsterdam) abstract
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| 15.30-16.00 | The foot as a segmental domain - John Harris (University College London) abstract
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| 16.00-16.30 | TEA |
| 16.30-18.00 |
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester), Mike Davenport (University of Durham), S.J. Hannahs (University of Durham) and April McMahon (University of Sheffield) |
| 19.30 | DINNER AT A MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT |
| Saturday 20 May 2000 | |
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| 09.00-09.45 | General Learning vs. Universal Grammar in children’s coda consonant acquisition - Tania S. Zamuner, LouAnn Gerken & Michael Hammond (all University of Arizona) |
| 09.45-10.30 | Phon-something: a clarification - Phil Harrison (University College London) |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
| 10.45-11.30 | Romanian verb extensions: a case of prosodic epenthesis - Alexandra Popescu (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) |
| 11.30-12.15 | Why Moroccan Arabic tolerates anything word-initially, but Slavic does not - Tobias Scheer (Universite de Nice) |
| 12.15-13.00 | Absolute phonological ungrammaticality: defective paradigms in Hungarian - Miklos Torkenczy (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) |
| 13.00-14.00 | BUFFET LUNCH |
Speakers
and poster presenters are
asked to bring
45-50 copies of their
handouts