Linguistics and Philosophy
MorrisHalle@100
September 8 – September 10, 2023, at MIT, Cambridge, MA
Linguistics and Philosophy
September 8 – September 10, 2023, at MIT, Cambridge, MA
*Registration will be open at the following times:
- Friday: 1:00 pm - 3:15 pm
- Saturday: 9:00 am - 9:30 am and 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- Sunday: 9:00 am - 9:30 am
| Friday, 9/8 | Saturday, 9/9 | Sunday, 9/10 | |
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| 8:30 AM | Breakfast (provided) | Breakfast (provided) | |
| 9:00 AM | Registration (breakfast provided) | Registration (breakfast provided) | |
| 9:30 AM | Session 3: Morphology Introduction: Jonathan Bobaljik, Eulàlia Bonet, Alec Marantz & Ora Matushansky |
Sessions 5 & 6: Stress and Meter Introduction: Bruce Hayes & Juliet Stanton |
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| 10:00 AM | |||
| 10:40 AM | Poster Subsession A: authors and titles below | Posters: authors and titles below | |
| 11:10 AM | Poster Subsession B: authors and titles below | ||
| 11:40 AM | Poster Subsession C: authors and titles below | ||
| 12:10 PM | Break | ||
| 12:25 PM | Break | ||
| 12:30 PM | Discussion of session 3 Moderators: Bobaljik, Bonet, Marantz, Matushansky |
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| 12:45 PM | Discussion of sessions 5 & 6 Moderators: Hayes & Stanton |
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| 1:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 1:30 PM | Lunch (provided) | Closing remarks Lunch (provided) |
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| 2:00 PM | |||
| 2:30 PM | Session 4: Rule ordering and the cycle Introduction: Paul Kiparsky & Kie Zuraw |
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| 3:00 PM | Opening remarks Speaker: Danny Fox |
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| 3:15 PM | Session 1 & 2: Features & Evaluation Metrics Introduction: Gillian Gallagher & Ezer Rasin |
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| 3:40 PM | Posters: authors and titles below | ||
| 4:20 PM | Poster Subsession A: authors and titles below | ||
| 5:10 PM | Break | ||
| 5:15 PM | Poster Subsession B: authors and titles below | ||
| 5:30 PM | Discussion of session 4 Moderators: Kiparsky & Zuraw |
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| 6:10 PM | Break | ||
| 6:30 PM | Discussion of sessions 1 & 2 Moderators: Gallagher & Rasin |
Dinner (and open mic) | |
| 7:30 PM | Reception |
| Session 1-2 | Friday 09/08 from 3:15 PM to 7:30 PM |
| Chair | Panel |
| Edward Flemming (MIT) | Gillian Gallagher (NYU) Ezer Rasin (TAU) |
| Session 1: Features | |
| Subsession A | |
| Veno Volenec | The Neurobiological Reality of Phonological Features |
| Jian Cui | Front-back asymmetry in Bantu vowel harmony: an instance of coronal asymmetry |
| Yeong-Joon Kim | Auditory features and phonological opacity |
| Hanyu Liu | Palatalization in Polish under the framework of feature geometry |
| Shengyun Gu | A sketch of contrastive handshapes and their variants in Shanghai Sign Language |
| Runqi Tan | Comparing features and dimensions in tone evaluation |
| Subsession B | |
| Saira Bano | Morphophonological alternation in the Hazaragi prefixation |
| B. Elan Dresher and Daniel Currie Hall | Emergent features and contrastive hierarchies: What condition Halle’s (1959) conditions are in |
| Juliet Stanton | Distantial faithfulness in Yindjibarndi cluster reduction |
| Blake Lehman | The feature [ATR] in Avatime: inconsistent phonetic realization and categorical phonology |
| Alexandra Pfiffner | Cue-based features: Explicitly modeling the phonetics in phonological contrast |
| Session 2: Evaluation Metrics | |
| Subsession A | |
| Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss | A simple alternative to SPE’s non-deterministic, intractable evaluation metric |
| Ollie Sayeed and Bert Vaux | Sound change and the evaluation metric |
| Subsession B | |
| William Idsardi and Eric Raimy | Same/different and the evaluation metric |
| Sarah Payne | Licit and Marginal Phonotactics: A Difference in Productivity |
| Session 3 | Saturday 09/09 from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM |
| Chair | Panel |
| Michael Kenstowicz (MIT) | Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard) Eulàlia Bonet (UAB) |
| Alec Marantz (NYU) Ora Matushansky (CNRS/UP8; UU) | |
| Session 3: Morphology | |
| Subsession A | |
| Jun Tamura | Compounding Words in the Syntax can Produce Phrasal Phonology: Evidence from Aoyagi Morphemes |
| Daniel Harbour | Is Georgian agreement competition just a matter of allomorphy and adjacency? |
| Walter Shaw | Reanalyses of Verbal Morphology in Proto-Celtic |
| Mirella Blum | Resolving outlying issues in Dinka noun number morphology |
| Gareth Junjie Yang | The Analogy of di: A Morphological Borrowing of “Manchu Mandarin” in Guangzhou due to Mandarin-Cantonese Contact |
| Ora Matushansky | Suffixal complexes and semantic deletion |
| Subsession B | |
| Daniel Harbour and Jane Middleton | The Subset Principle and dual-inverse syncretism in Kiowa-Tanoan |
| Helene Streffer | An Elsewhere Exponent in Discontinuous Agreement |
| Andrea Calabrese | Remarks on Halle (2018) |
| Matthew Burner | New Questions Regarding Asturian Noun Morphology |
| San Duanmu | Zero Derivation between N and V in English and Chinese |
| Subsession C | |
| Sam Zukoff | Mirror Principle Effects in Templatic Morphology: Asymmetries in Bantu Suffix Doubling and Morphophonology |
| Jane Middleton | Cyclic Impoverishment and Metathesis in Northern Tiwa (Kiowa-Tanoan) |
| Kyongjoon Kwon | Extr-ým reduplicative modification of the Russian short-form adjectives |
| Caleb Belth | A Learning-Based Account of Non-Productivity in Dutch Voicing Alternations |
| Karim Bensoukas | Tashlhit Berber Imperfective Gemination: A Complex Allomorphy |
| Giuseppina Silvestri* | Metaphonic diphthongization and the phonology-syntax interface |
| Session 4 | Saturday 09/09 from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM |
| Chair | Panel |
| Cynthia Zhong (MIT): Intro | Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Kie Zuraw (UCLA) |
| Bergül Soykan (MIT): Discussion | |
| Session 4: Rule ordering and cycle | |
| Heather Newell | Simplicity and Phonological Computation: No Prosodic Hierarchy, One Phonology |
| Peter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy | Inter-paradigm conservatism motivates paradigm gaps in Hungarian |
| Stuart Davis and Stefon Flego | Rule Ordering, Dialect B, and Incipient ay-raising in Present Day American English |
| Vera Rusyanov and Ezer Rasin | Stress Precedence: A new universal constraint on rule ordering |
| Johanna Benz | In defense of readjustment |
| Harry van der Hulst | The phonology of synthetic compounds |
| Aljosa Milenkovic | Against Cycle-Internal Transparency: Multiple opacity in Gallipoli Serbian |
| Scott Nelson | Unordered rules that only apply to the input are not more complex than ordered rules |
| Eric Bakovic and Lev Blumenfeld | A formal characterization of disjunctive application |
| Session 5-6 | Sunday 09/10 from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM |
| Chair | Panel |
| Adam Albright (MIT) | Bruce Hayes (UCLA) Juliet Stanton (NYU) |
| Session 5: Stress | |
| William Oliver | The Role of Stress in Italian Gemination from an Acoustic Analysis of Inherently Long Consonants |
| Andrea Calabrese and Laura Grestenberger | Accentuation and Zero grade in the Vedic Sanskrit Verbal System |
| Guillaume Roux and Germana Carolina Soler Millan | The emergence of the initial stress in French as a first language |
| Eyal Marco, Radan Nasrallah and Ezer Rasin | Phonological derivations are not harmonically improving: Evidence from Nazarene Arabic |
| Charles Yang | The structural basis of lexical diffusion: The case of diatonic stress shift |
| Felipe Vital and Andrew Nevins | Stress and Segmental Rules in the Brazilian Ludling TTK |
| Michael Wagner | Encoding and retrieving grouping and prominence in the speech stream |
| Elango Kumaran and Darby Grachek | Karuk prefixal stress: Optimizing prosodic word edge placement |
| Session 6: Meter | |
| Jonah Katz | Meter and constituency in old-school hip-hop |
| João Veloso* | What folk meter tells us about syllable structure and secondary stress in Portuguese |
| Bruce Hayes and Donka Minkova | A MaxEnt analysis of the meter of Beowulf |
| Antón de la Fuente, Brennan Nick and Arto Anttila | Metrical uncertainty |
*The author(s) will not be present.