CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE FOOT

The Graduate Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY Phonology Forum cosponsored the CUNY Conference on the Foot January 15-17, 2009. This page lists the presentations in alphabetical order by first author, including abstracts and audio files for the papers, abstracts for the posters, handouts and/or power point files, and whatever other material is appropriate.

Please be sure to visit the main foot page for more results of this conference.

LISTEN TO THE TALKS, READ THE HANDOUTS AND ABSTRACTS!

Clicking on the name of the paper below will lead you to the abstract. For the sound files and other material, please follow the links as indicated.

• Anani, Mohammed, Petri University: The prosodic pattern of words in adult-child Jordanian Arabic and L2 learnability. Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (61.9MB).



• Maria de Fátima de Almeida Baia; University of Sao Paolo, Brazil: Naturalistic and experimental study on the initial prosodic template in Brazilian Portuguese. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here (57.8MB).



• Alber, Birgit, University of Verona: The foot in truncation. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here (68.3MB).



• Bye, Patrik, University of Tromsø, Non-isomorphic morphological and phonological feet in Inari Saami. Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (66.7MB).



• Davis, Stuart, Indiana University: On the foot-based analysis of aspiration in American English. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here (71.9MB).



• Duanmu, San, University of Michigan: Syllabification and the weight-stress principle. View his slides here. Listen to his talk here (67.0MB).



• Floquet, Oreste, University of Rome; Bernard Laks, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre; Atanas Tchobanov, CNRS Modyco: A connectionist-like account of the rhythmic counting out of rhymes. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Gerken, LouAnn, University of Arizona: Feet change with exposure to language. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here (143.0MB).



• Gerometta, Jennifer, Anthea Vivona & Valerie Shafer, City University of New York: Can prosodic feet help infants segment the speech signal? View their poster here.



• González, Carolina, Florida State University: Foot edges, constituents and exhaustive parsing in morphophonological alternations. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here (64.8MB).



• Hanson, Kristin, University of California, Berkeley: Metrical feet and dancing feet. Listen to her talk here (66.1MB).



• Hellmuth, Sam, University of York: Evidence from Egyptian Arabic for the role of the foot in intonational phonology.. Read her handout here. Listen to her talk here (67.7MB).



• Huang, Yu-Chi, University of Southern California: Syllable, foot and stress assignment in Auca. Read her handout here. Listen to her talk here (63.6MB).



• van der Hulst, Harry, University of Connecticut: Once you know where the primary accent is, ryhthm is simple (or is it). Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (71.2MB).



• Jaker, Alessandro, Stanford University: Opacity, level ordering, and tonal feet in Dogrib. Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (71.6MB).



• Katada, Fusa, Waseda University: Feet as neuropsychologically driven sense units. View her poster here.



• Kim, Hyuo-young, Kookmin University: Dual-counting foot. View his slides here. Listen to his talk here (56.3MB).



• Knaus, Johannes, Ulrike Domahs, & Richard Wiese, Phillipps Universität Marburg University: Event-related potentials as evidence for a constraint based analysis of foot structure and foot parsing. View their poster here.



• Krämer, Martin, University of Tromsø: When Romans lose their heads. Listen to his talk here (71.6MB).



• Liu, Patrick, Harvard University: Bottom-up stress assignment: Evidence from Arabic. View his poster here.



• Nasukawa, Kuniya, and Phillip Backley Tohoku Gakuin University: The foot: A unified entity for both metrical and segmental phenomena. View their poster here.



• Oda, Toshiro, Fukuoka University: On the prosodic approach to English syllabifications: Revising some allophonic phenomena, elaborating foot-based strengthening and weakening processes and the inapplicability to early Engliksh. Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (75.7MB).



• Reiss, Charles & Marc Simpson, Concordia University: Projection feet in reduplication. Read their handout here. Listen to their talk here (60.6MB).



• Santos, Raquel S, University of São Paulo: Foot headedness setting: Is there a default value?. Read her handout here. Listen to her talk here (63.4MB).



• Schneider-Zioga, Patricia, California State University at Fullerton & Jean-Roger Vergnaud, University of Southern California: Feet and their combination. Listen to their talk here (80.1MB).



• Sen, Ranjan, University of Oxford: Synchrony, diachrony and Early Latin feet. Read his handout here, and view his slides here. Listen to his talk here (64.9MB).



• Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie, and Alice Turk, University of Edinburgh: An experimental investigation of Abercombian feet in American English. Listen to their talk here (67.0MB).



• Shaw, Patricia, University of British Columbia: Quantity sensitivities. Read her handout here. Listen to her talk here (109.2MB).



• Strycharczuk, Patrycja, University of Tromsø: The interaction of Dorsey's law and stress: A non-foot based approach. Read her handout here and view her slides here. Listen to her talk here (66.7MB).



• Vaux, Bert, King's College, University of Cambridge: On the phonological representationn of timing and prosody. Read his handout here. Listen to his talk here (111.4MB).



• Richard Wiese, Ulrike Domahs & Knaus, Johannes, Phillipps Universität Marburg University: The role of the foot in the processing of stress in German. Read their handout here. Listen to their talk here (60.2MB).




Organizers:

Chuck Cairns, CUNY, and Eric Raimy University of Wisconsin

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