Location: The Franke Institute for the Humanities

 

Friday

April 25

8:30-9:00

Coffee

 

 

Session 1:

Chair: Alan Yu

9:00-9:15

Opening remarks

 

 

9:15-10:15

Larry Hyman, University of California, Berkeley

 

Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization

 

 

Break

 

 

10:30-11:00

Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures

 

Abby Kaplan (University of California, Santa Cruz)

11:00-11:30

Phonetic detail in the grammar: learning conditioned coarticulation patterns

 

Rebecca Morley (Johns Hopkins University)

11:30-12:00

Phonologization and the typology of feature behavior

 

Jeff Mielke (University of Ottawa)

Lunch

 

 

 

Session 2:

Chair: TBA

1:30-2:30

Elliot Moreton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Modularity bias in learning and typology

 

 

Break

 

 

 

2:45-3:15

Intergestural inhibition counteracts phonologization

 

Sam Tilsen (University of California, Berkeley)

3:15-3:45

Heading toward harmony: Vowel cooccurrence in the Croatian lexicon

 

Mary Ann Walters (Northwestern University)

3:45-4:15

Phonetic precursor robustness and differential perceptual compensation

 

Alan Yu (University of Chicago)

 

 

Break

 

 

 

Session 3:

Chair: TBA

4:30-5:00

Transmission of “merger”

 

Matt Bauer, Illinois Institute of Technology, Frank Parker (Louisiana State University)

5:00-5:30

Overwhelming phonologization: Convergence with the social vs. emergence of the unmarked

 

Richard Janda (Indiana University) and Brian Joseph (the Ohio State University)

 

CLS dinner banquet

 

 

Saturday

April 26

8:30-9:00

Coffee

 

 

Session 4:

Chair: TBA

9:00-10:00

Beth Hume, the Ohio State University

 

Expectation and its Role in Phonologization and Language Change 

 

 

Break

 

 

10:15-10:45

The role of the language specificity of perceptual cues in the phonologization process

 

Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, (University of Rochester)

10:45-11:15

Distributional properties of phonetic cues affect cross-language vowel categorization

 

Maria Kondaurova and Alex Francis (Purdue University)

11:15-11:45

Phonetic bases of similarities in cross-linguistic production of consonant sequences

 

Lisa Davidson, (New York University)

Lunch

 

 

 

Session 5:

Chair: TBA

1:30-2:30

Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona

 

Are we in crisis science?: Some indicators from exemplar-theoretic accounts in sociophonetics

 

 

Break

 

 

 

2:45-3:15

Contact and vowel harmony

 

Stefano Canalis (Università di Padova)

3:15-3:45

When does variation lead to change? A dynamical systems model of a stress shift in English

 

Partha Niyogi and Morgan Sonderegger (University of Chicago)

3:45-4:15

Is there such a thing as “phonologizationsensu etymologico (or otherwise)?

 

Brian Joseph (the Ohio State University)

 

 

Break

 

 

 

Session 6:

Chair: TBA

4:30-5:00

Tracking the emergence of vowel harmony in an iterated learning model

 

Frédéric Mailhot (Carleton University)

5:00-5:30

Modelling exemplar-based phonologization

 

Robert Kirchner (University of Alberta) and  Roger K. Moore (University of Sheffield)

 

Happy hour and dinner reception

 

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