Saturday, April 29th

10:00

BREAKFAST

10:30

Workshop on Candidate Chains
Michael Becker (UMass) will give an introduction to the theory and the Candidate Chain software he has developed.

12.00

LUNCH

1.00

Matt Wolf (UMass) Lexical insertion occurs in the phonological component

1.30

Nazarre Merchant (Rutgers) Using local lexical to learn ranking information and underlying forms

2.00

Gaja Jarosz (Hopkins) Richness of the Base and probabilistic, unsupervised learning of Optimality Theoretic grammars

2.40

BREAK

3.00

Daniel Altshuler (Rutgers) Filling the gap: QI iambs and the typology of feet

3.40

Michael Key (UMass) Metrical attraction and Bantu imbrication

4.10

COFFEE BREAK

4.40

Kathryn Flack (UMass) Edge restrictions in prosodic domains

5.10

James Gruber (Georgetown) The Prosodic Domain of Roots: Output Oriented Faithfulness

5.40

Michael O’Keefe (Rutgers) Non-local assimilation via Heads, Edges, Association, and Domains

6.10

a little down time . . .

7.00

DINNER at Gaja Jarosz's

Sunday, April 30th

8.45

BREAKFAST

9.30

Sarah Murray (Rutgers) Selective Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation

10.00

Sara Finley (Hopkins) A correspondence approach to vowel harmony in Lena Spanish

10.30

Shigeto Kawahara (UMass) and Kaori Akashi (University of Tokyo)The markedness hierarchy of geminates and mimetic gemination in Japanese

11.00

BREAK

11.30

Michael Becker (UMass) Tone licensing and categorical alignment in Serbo-Croatian

12.00

Heeshin Koak (Rutgers) Allomorph selection of Korean conjunctive and vocative case marker

12.30

Tim Beechey (UMass) Constraints on bases in Ngandi reduplication

1.00

LUNCH