Long Island Sound Meeting 2002

Friday, May 10th, 2002

New York University, Main Building Rm 414

Contact person: Stefan Benus


Schedule of Talks:

9:30-10:00 REFRESHMENT
10:00-10:40 Stefan Benus (NYU), Transparent Vowels in Vowel Harmony
10:40-11:20 Mariko Yanagawa (Yale), The Effect of Overlap Variability on Methathesis in Modern Hebrew

11:20-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:10 Meghan Sumner (SUNY), Phonology-independent factors and the reality of abstract forms in Modern Hebrew
12:10-12:50 Yiya Chen (SUNY), Yi Xu (Northwestern), Target and Target Implementation: Evidence from Neutral Tone in Mandarin Chinese

12:50-2:20 LUNCH
2:20-3:00 Laura Dorfman (NYU), Towards a Stochastic OT Model of French Variable Liaison using the Gradual Learning Algorithm
3:00-3:40 Franc Marusic (SUNY), *Aff-stem-ix: Are there any discontinuous affixes?

3:40-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00-4:40 Thomas J. Conners (Yale), Circumfixation: An Unnoticed Complication for Indonesian Stress
4:40-5:20 Corinna Anderson (Yale), Another look at Moras (and Syllables) in Sapir's Southern Paiute

DINNER


Abstracts are available in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

Some documents include text in SIL IPA fonts. These fonts can be downloaded from SIL International.


A PDF map of the main NYU campus can be found here. (Click here for non-PDF version).

Main Building's street address is 100 Washington Square East (labeled 26 on the map), and it is located just to the east and north of Washington Square Park.


Due to heightened on-campus security, IDs are checked in the Main Building. Participants and attendees from Yale and CUNY are advised to bring a photo ID (driver's license, school ID, etc) with them.

Last Modified: May 4, 2002