CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SEGMENT

CUNY MA/PhD Program in Linguistics, in collaboration with the CUNY Phonology Forum, cosponsored the CUNY Conference on the Segment January 11—13, 2012. This page lists all the papers in alphabetical order by first author. This includes abstracts, slides and audio files for all the papers (except some slides are still outstanding as of 25 January, 2012).

If you are interested in the original conference schedule, click here (in PDF format).

The original call for papers is here (also in PDF format).

Acknowledgments.

This conference, as well as the preceding ones, would not have been possible without the effective and enthusiastic assistance provided by students in the CUNY Graduate Center's Graduate Program in Linguistics. We thank these volunteers: Ylana Beller, Eric Chambers, Kate Dawson, Wendy Dorsett, Laurie Gluck, Stephanie Kakadelis, Emily Long, Christen Madsen (Student Wrangler par excellence), Ignacio Montoya, Tsion Yi, and Namseok Yong.

The unfailingly professional and efficient support provided by the CUNY Graduate Center's Facilities and Security departments has also been invaluable. Chuck Cairns (CUNY) and Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin) are primarily responsible for managing this website and organizing the public events. The CUNY collaborators are Professors Juliette Blevins, Dianne Bradley, Ann Delilkan, Kathleen Currie Hall, and Robert Vago.

LISTEN TO THE TALKS, READ THE ABSTRACTS AND VIEW THE SLIDES.

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. Papers are listed by the first author's last name. Note that all slides are in PDF format.

Clicking on the name of an author will lead to his or her website (if available). Email contact for first lead author and/or presenter (and some co-aouthors, as the information becomes available) is also provided below.

• Árnason, Kristján; University of Iceland and Michael Schäfer: A stress test for segmenthood. On the segmental status of preaspiration in Icelandic and Faroese.



• Babatsouli, Elena; University of Crete (Mail): Spring-like effect near a child’s phonological acquisition of target segments. Listen to her talk here.



• Baia, Maria de Fátima de Almeida (Mail); Universidade de São Paulo, & University of York: Reduplication in early Brazilian Portuguese acquisition: a whole-word and templatic phonology approach. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Basbøll, Hans; University of Southern Denmark (Mail): The notion of segment as a challenge for a sonority syllable model. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.
  
  
• Ben Si Said, Samir; Université de Nice (Mail): Segment sequences in diatopic variation of Kabyle Berber. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Bennett, Ryan (Mail), Grant McGuire, Jaye Padgett (mail); University of California at Santa Cruz and Máire Ní Chiosáin; University College, Dublin: (In)variance in Irish palatalization and velarization: An ultrasound study. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Bjorndahl, Christina; Cornell University (Mail): The phonology and phonetics of ambiguity: A case study of /v/. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Blevins, Juliette; Graduate Center, CUNY. (Mail): The life cycle of voiceless sonorants. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Bucci, Jonathan; Université de Nice (Mail): Unity and difference of velars and labials: The case of Coratino. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Casserly, Elizabeth (Mail), David Pisoni, and Kate Sherwood; Indiana University: Consonants versus vowels: Phonetic changes under acoustic feedback transformation. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Chang, Charles; University of Maryland, College Park (Mail): On the disparity between within- and cross-language segmental similarity. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Chang, Zhuting (Mail) and Dianne Bradley (Mail); Graduate Center, CUNY: : Drivers of tonal assignment for English loans into Mandarin: An experimental investigation. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Duanmu, San; The University of Michigan (Mail): Segments and features. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Fowler, Carol; University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories (Mail): Segments in articulatory phonology. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Fulop, Sean (Mail) and Chris Golston; California State University, Fresno (Mail): If segments are real, what are they?. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Golston, Chris (Mail) and Wolfgang Kehrein, University of Amsterdam (Mail): The prosodic licensing of vocalic features. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Gósy, Mária; Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Mail) and Robert Vago, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY (Mail): A Case of Grounded Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Hall, Kathleen Currie; College of Staten Island & Graduate Center, CUNY (Mail): Categorical segments, probabilistic models. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut (Mail): On the nature of phonological primes. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Idsardi, William; University of Maryland (Mail): The neural representation of segments and features. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Keane, Jonathan (Mail), Diane Brentari and Jason Riggle; University of Chicago: Segments in ASL fingerspelling. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Kim, Jong-mi; Kangwon National University (Mail): Segments predict non-native accents: Prosody lends little. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Loukina, Anastassia; (formerly at) University of Oxford (Mail), Chilin Shih; University of Illinois and Greg Kochanski; Google Inc. (formerly at University of Oxford): How universal is the boundary between vowels and consonants?. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Morley, Rebecca; Ohio State University (Mail): A gradient treatment of contrast: repercussions for implicational universals. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Tohoku Gakuin University (Mail): The segment in monostratal phonology. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Nimz, Katharina; Humboldt University of Berlin (Mail): The perception of manipulated German vowels by Turkish GFL learners. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Onuma, Hitomi, Tohoku Gakuin University (Mail): Silent segments and prosodic dependency. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.



• Pöchtrager, Markus; Boğaziçi University (Mail): Beyond the segment. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Riera, María (Mail) and Joaquín Romero (Mail); Universitat Rovira i Virgili: American English V+/l/ and V+/r/ sequences: Segments and gestures. Their slides are here. Listen to their talk here.



• Shimizu, Katsumasa; Nagoya Gakuin University (Mail): A study on phonetic features in the acquisition of English stop consonants by Korean, Thai and Chinese speakers. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Trommer, Jochen; University of Leipzig (Mail): Floating-mora and defective-segment affixation in Anywa. His slides are here. Listen to his talk here.



• Vaxman, Alex; University of Connecticut (Mail): Head accessibility and complex segments. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Whalen, D. H.; Graduate Center, CUNY (Mail), Patricia Shaw; University of British Columbia, Aude Noiray; Haskins Laboratories and Reethee Antony; Graduate Center, CUNY: Segments Calling Each to Each: Consonant harmony in Tahltan. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Zimmermann, Eva; University of Leipzig (Mail): Templates as affixation of segment-sized units: The case of Southern Sierra Miwok. Her slides are here. Listen to her talk here.

Organizers:

Chuck Cairns, CUNY, and Eric Raimy University of Wisconsin

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