Conference Dates
Abstract deadline:
07 Sept 2006
Notification of acceptance:
15 Oct 2006
Workshop:
18 Jan 2007
OCP4:
19-21 Jan 2007


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Old World Conference in Phonology 4 | ÓõíÝäñéï Öùíïëïãßáò ôçò ÃçñáéÜò Çðåßñïõ 4

18-21 January 2007

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Workshop “Harmony in the Languages of the Mediterranean”

Thursday 18 January 2007

12.30 – 13.00

Registration & Opening

13.00 – 13.40

Joan Mascaro, Eulalia Bonet (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and Maria-Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona)
Domain and directionality in Catalan ATR harmony
[abstract]

13.40 – 14.20

Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza (University of Southern California)
Vowel harmony in Romance varieties: Representing minimal contrast
[abstract]

14.20 – 14.50

coffee break

14.50 – 15.30

Jesus Jimenez (Universitat de Valencia) and Maria-Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona)
Andalusian vowel harmony: Weak triggers and perceptibility
[abstract]

15.30 – 16.10

Islam Youssef  (CASTL, University of Tromso)
Dorsal Harmony in Cairene Arabic
[abstract]

16.10 – 16.30

coffee break

16.30 – 17.10

Sara Finley and William Badecker (Johns Hopkins University)
The cognitive basis for restrictions on vowel harmony
[abstract]

17.10 – 17.50

Baris Kabak (University of Konstanz)
Co-occurrence patterns in Turkish vowel (dis)harmony
[abstract]

Alternates

  1. Andrew Nevins (Harvard University) and Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge)
    Contrastive visibility and the loss of u,o in Vidin’ Turkish [abstract]

Main Session

Friday 19 January 2007

09.00 – 10.00

Junko Ito and Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Categories and projections in prosodic structure
[abstract]

10.00 – 10.35

Bruce  Moren (CASTL, University of Tromso)
Central Swedish pitch accent: A retro approach
[abstract]

10.35 – 11.00

coffee break

11.00 – 11.35

Curt Rice (CASTL, University of Tromso)
As proud the head with heavy feet: Restrictions on structure are in Gen
[abstract]

11.35 – 12.10

Nina Topintzi (UCL)
The relationship between voicing and stress with special focus on Karo
[abstract]

12.10 – 12.45

Marzena Zygis (Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
On the cross-linguistic dispreference of voiced sibilant affricates
[abstract]

12.45 – 13.45

poster session A

13.45 – 14.45

lunch break

14.45 – 15.20

Darya Kavitskaya (Yale University) and Peter Staroverov (Moscow State University)
The sonority of glottal stop: Evidence from Tundra Nenets
[abstract] - not presented

15.20 – 15.55

Peter Jurgec (CASTL, University of Tromso)
Faithfulness is not enough: Loanword specific markedness
[abstract]

15.55 – 16.30

Pavel Iosad (Moscow State University)
Phonological processes as lexical insertion: More evidence from Welsh and elsewhere
[abstract]

16.30 – 16.55

coffee break

16.55 – 17.55

Outi Bat-El (Tel-Aviv University)
Category-specific phonology: Evidence from adult and child Hebrew
[abstract]

19.00 Conference Dinner

Saturday 20 January 2007

09.00 – 10.00

Moira Yip (UCL)
Speech rate and phonology: Two cases
[abstract]

10.00 – 10.35

Paul Boersma (Amsterdam University) and Silke Hamann
(Utrecht University)
Phonological perception in loanword adaptation
[abstract]

10.35 – 11.00

coffee break

11.00 – 11.35

Paola Escudero (Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam)
Linguistic Comprehension: A formal model for explaining the interrelation between sound perception and word recognition in L1, L2, L3, and bilingual acquisition
[abstract]

11.35 – 12.10

Diana Apoussidou (University of Amsterdam)         
Bootstrapping into phonology
[abstract]

12.10 – 12.45

Marina Nespor (Univeristy of Ferrara), Mohinish Shukla (SISSA) and  Ruben van de Vijver (University of Potsdam)
Setting the head – complement parameter?
[abstract]

12.45 – 13.45

lunch break

13.45 – 14.45

poster session B

14.45 – 15.20

Christian Uffmann (CASTL, University of Tromso)
Phonological opacity and underspecification in Narvik Norwegian
[abstract]

15.20 – 15.55

Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester)
Word-final prevocalic consonants in English: Representation vs. derivation
[abstract]

15.55 – 16.15

coffee break

16.15 – 16.50

Sylvia Blaho (CASTL, University of Tromso)
Analysing Pasiego vowel harmony (nearly) four decades after SPE
[abstract]

16.50 – 17.25

Sara Mackenzie (University of Toronto)
Contrast and similarity in laryngeal harmony systems
[abstract]

17.25 – 18.00

Shakuntala Mahanta (Utrecht University)
On consonantal intervention in vowel harmony
[abstract]

Sunday 21 January 2007

08.55 – 09.30

Nancy C. Kula (University of Leiden/LUCL & SOAS)
Syntax is not phonology-free: Towards a new perspective of phonologically informed syntactic derivations
[abstract]

09.30 – 10.05

Edward Gobbel (University of Tubingen)
Extraposition as PF movement
[abstract]

10.05 – 10.40

Midori Hayashi (University of Toronto)
What accounts for boosts in downstep? – Syntax-prosody mapping revisited
[abstract]

10.40 – 11.10

coffee break

11.10 – 11.45

Caroline Fery (University of Potsdam)
The double realization of phonological focus in Georgian
[abstract]

11.45 – 12.20

Mary Baltazani (University of Ioannina)        
The effect of prosodic boundaries on syllable duration in Greek
[abstract]

12.20 – 12.30

short break

12.30 – 13.05

Zsuzsanna Barkanyi and Zoltan Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institute for Linguistics)
A phonetically-based approach to the phonology of [v]: A case-study form Hungarian and Slovak
[abstract]

13.05 – 13.40

Marc Van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)  
Stress as a prefix in Modern Greek
[abstract]

13.40 – 14.00

business meeting & closing remarks

Alternates

  1. Barbara Hohle, Susan Ott, Ruben van de Vijver (Universitat Potsdam)
    Acquisition of dorsal in simple and complex onsets [abstract]
  2. Marketa Zikova (University of Brno) and Tobias Scheer (CNRS 6039/University of Nice)
    (Slavic) vowel-zero alternations and phase theory [abstract]
  3. Martin Kramer (CASTL, University of Tromso)
    How predictable is word stress in Italian? [abstract]

Posters

Poster Session A – Friday 19 January

Asli Altan (Hacettepe University)
The acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish [abstract]

Jason Bishop (University of Leipzig)
A Perceptual study of incomplete neutralization in Andalusian Spanish [abstract]

Anna Bogacka (Adam Mickiewicz University)
How English diphthongs are pronounced by Polish learners [abstract]

Stefano Canalis (University of Padova)
Turkish vowel harmony and syllables [abstract]

Emilie Caratini (Universite de Nice / Universitat Leipzig)
About German diphthongs and their phonological representation [abstract]

Eric Carlson (UCL)
Toward a modulation phonology [abstract]

Photini Coutsougera (University of Cyprus)
Phonotactics and the sonority sequencing generalisation: An application to Cypriot Greek [abstract]

Poster Session B – Saturday 20 January

Luigia Garrapa (University of Konstanz)
Vowel elision in spoken Italian [abstract]

Nabila Louriz (Hassan II University, Casablanca)
The emergence of the unmarked in L3 phonology [abstract]

Daniela Muller (University of Tolosa 2 – Lo Miralh) and Sidney Martin (University of Tarragona)
A preliminary acoustic study of the Occitan vowel system [abstract]

Aubrey Nunes (University of Durham)
Minimalism and enhancement in phonological acquisition [abstract]

Peter Rebrus and Miklos Torkenczy (Research Institute for Linguistics HAS and Theoretical Linguistics Programme ELTE)
Phonotactically unconstrained paradigmatic defectiveness: The case of s~d alternation in Hungarian [abstract]

Hisao Tokizaki and Yasutomo Kuwana (Sapporo University)
Pitch, speech rate, and syntax: Word-initial low in Japanese [abstract]

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