MOT 2009
MOT 2009, co-sponsored by the University of Toronto and York University, is being held Friday February 27, Saturday February 28, and Sunday March 1.
All talks take place in Claude T. Bissell 205 on the University of Toronto campus. This building is attached to Robarts Library on the north end, 140 St. George Street. If you take the subway, get off at St. George and walk south (towards the lake – you can see the CN Tower). Bissell is on the southwest corner of St. George and Sussex.
Registration:
$15 students and unwaged
$30 faculty
February 27 (Friday)
Session 1 |
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3:00 |
Elan Dresher |
"The East Slavic post-velar fronting" |
3:20 |
Elham Rohany Rahbar |
"On tenseness in the Persian vowel system" |
3:40 |
Paul Arsenault |
"Coronal consonant harmony in Indus Kohistani" |
4:00 |
Discussion |
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4:20 |
Break |
Session 2 |
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4:40 |
Sonia Pritchard |
"Cross Language Comparison of CjV/CjV Sequences" |
5:00 |
Milica Radisic |
"The Nature of Polish si: What can speech errors tell us" |
5:20 |
Volha Kharytonava |
"From Vowel Reduction to Palatalization: Case of Russian" |
5:40 |
Discussion |
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February 28 (Saturday)
Session 3 |
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9:20 |
Jonathan Howell & Mats Rooth |
"A Corpus Search Methodology for Focus Realization" |
9:40 |
Anne St. Amand |
"Anti-Hiatus Vowel Deletion in Canadian French" |
10:00 |
Discussion |
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10:20 |
Break |
Session 4 |
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10:40 |
Ewan Dunbar |
"Pitfalls of Distributional Allophone Learning" |
11:00 |
Brian Dillon & Bill Idsardi |
"A computational investigation of Inuktitut allophony" |
11:20 |
Viktor Kharlamov |
"The Role of Frequency and probability in syllabification judgments" |
11:40 |
Heather Goad |
"Allophony without Features?" |
12:00 |
Discussion |
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12:20 |
Lunch |
Session 5 |
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2:00 |
Daryl Chow |
"Relax lah, why so stressed" |
2:20 |
Bethany Lochbihler |
"(Non)-Derived Word Minimality in Turkish" |
2:40 |
Oner Ozcelik |
"Exceptions are not exceptions: Towards a unified analysis of Turkish stress" |
3:00 |
Deena Fogle |
"Stress Assignment in the acquisition of French by English speakers" |
3:20 |
Discussion |
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3:40 |
Break |
Poster session |
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4:00 |
Eva Melkonyan |
"Affixation in Armenian DPs" |
Marc Simpson & Charles Reiss |
"Reduplication as Iterated Projection" |
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Party: details to be announced |
March 1 (Sunday)
Session 6 |
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10:00 |
Marc Brunelle |
"North Vietnamese Tone Sandhi" |
10:20 |
Peter Avery |
"Extra high tones in Dholuo" |
10:40 |
Margaret Stong-Jensen |
"A Conspiracy of Another Sort" |
11:00 |
Discussion |
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11:20 |
Break |
Session 7 |
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11:40 |
Liisa Duncan |
"Suffix Vowel Quality in Finnish Back Neutral Loanwords: An Acoustic Study" |
12:00 |
John Jensen |
"Another Look at Internal Reconstruction" |
12:20 |
Keren Rice |
"On feature visibility in harmony" |
12:40 |
Discussion |
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1:00 |
Lunch |