CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLE

The Graduate Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY Phonology Forum cosponsored the CUNY Conference on the Syllable January 17, 18, 19, 2008. This page lists all the papers in alphabetical order by first author. This includes abstracts and audio files for the papers, abstracts for the posters, and, in some cases, handouts, power point files, and full papers.

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

LISTEN TO THE TALKS, READ THE HANDOUTS AND ABSTRACTS! (Full papers in some cases.)

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.

• Ali, Azra, Michael Ingleby and David Peebles, University of Huddersfield: Anglophone Perceptions Of Arabic Syllable Structure. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Babyonyshev, Maria; Yale University and Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University: Syllable Structure And Sonority: The Case Of Russian-Speaking Children With SLI. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here. (XMB)



• Berent, Iris; Florida Atlantic University, Tracy Lennertz, Florida Atlantic University, and Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University: Sonority-Related Restrictions On Unattested Onset Clusters: Evidence From Nasals Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here. (XMB)
  
  
• Bhatt, Parth; University of Toronto, Juvenal Ndayiragije, University of Toronto, and Emmanuel Nikiema, University of Toronto: Are Branching Syllabic Constituents Really Necessary?. Their poster is here.



• Cairns, Charles; CUNY: The Modular Syllable. Handout Here.



• Carando, Augustino, CUNY: The Korean Syllable And Moraic Theory. Her poster is here.



• Cholin, Joana, University of La Laguna: Do Syllables Exist? Psycholinguistic Evidence For The Retrieval Of Syllabic Units In Speech Production. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Chung, Inkie; Central Connecticut State University: Syllable Structure In Korean Revisited. His poster is here and his handout is here.



• Coetzee, Andries W., University of Michigan and Kevin B.McGowan, University of Michigan:Allophonic Cues To Syllabification. Their powerpoint presentation is here in pdf format, and here in ppt format. Listen to their talk here.



• Côté, Marie-Hélène, University of Ottawa: Syllabification, Variation And Perception. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Davis, Stuart; Indiana University and Karen Baertsch, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: On The Relationship Between Codas And Onset Clusters. Their handout is here in Word format, and here in PDF format. Listen to their talk here.



• Dell, François, EHESS-CNRS, Paris: Singing In Tashlhiyt Berber, A Language That Allows Vowel-Less Syllables. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Duanmu, San; The University of Michigan: The CVX Theory Of Syllable Structure. His powerpoint presentation is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Eddington, David; Brigham Young University, Rebecca Treiman, Washington University in St. Louis, Dirk Elzinga, Brigham Young University and Mark Davies,Brigham Young University: A Large-Scale Experimental Study Of English Syllabification. Their poster is here.



• Gagnon, Michaël, Concordia University and Charles Reiss, Concordia University: Rationalism and Empiriicism in Syllabification. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Gnanadesikan, Amalia E., West Chester University: Syllables And Syllabaries: What Writing Systems Tell Us About Syllable Structure. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Haugen, Jason D., Williams College: The Syllable As Delimitation Of The Base For Reduplication. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut: Syllabic Structure and Licensing. His handout is here. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, there is no recording of Harry van der Hulst's talk.



• Kapatsinski, Vsevolod, Indiana University: Implementing And Testing Theories Of Syllable Structure. His poster is here.



• Katada, Fusa; Waseda University: Word Reversing By A Person With Williams Syndrome: More Evidence For The Mora As Structural Unit. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Kharlamov, Viktor, University of Ottawa and Marie-Hélène; Côté, University of Ottawa: The Impact Of Experimental Task On Syllabification Judgments: A Case Study Of Russian. Their poster is here.



• Kiparsky, Paul, Stanford University: Weight and Length. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Kreitman, Rina, Emory University: To Onset Or Not To Onset, That Is The Question. Her poster is here.



• Kuriyama, Keiko, Randolf College and Jeri Jaeger, SUNY/Buffalo: The Mora or the Segment? Investigating the basic unit of spoken language processing through SOT data in Japanese. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Lewis, Anthony; Syracuse University: Reassessing Constraints On Complex Rhymes In English: The Phonetic And Phonological Status Of The Coronal Obstruents. His handout is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Tohoku Gakuin University: The Syllabification Of Syllabic Nasals. His poster is here.



• Neumann, Yael, Queens College, Loraine K. Obler, CUNY Graduate Center, Valerie Shafer, CUNY Graduate Center, and Hilary Gomes, City College of New York: Segmental And Syllabic Processing In Healthy Younger And Older Adults: An Electrophysiological Study. Their poster is here.



• Pons Moll, Clàudia; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: With Regard To Syllable Contact And The Sonority Scale. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Pons Moll, Clàudia; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: The Sonority Scale: Categorical Or Gradient?. Her poster is here.



• Raimy, Eric; University of Wisconsin: Deriving Syllable Phenomena From Parallel Representations.



• Ringen, Catherine O; University of Iowa and Robert Vago, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY: Geminates And Syllable Structure. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.



• Samuels, Bridget, Harvard University: A String Theory of Syllables. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Schneider-Zioga, Patricia, CSU Fullerton: The Reconciliation Of Body And Rhyme: Bare Syllable Structure. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Sen, Ranjan, University of Oxford: Diachronic Phonotactic Development In Latin: The Work Of Syllable Structure Or Linear Sequence? The PowerPoint presentation of his talk is here (does not contain references). The pdf version is here (contains references). Listen to his talk here.



• Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie, MIT: The Syllable in Speech Production Planning. Her handout is forthcoming. Listen to her talk here.



• Shaw, Jason; New York University and Adamantios Gafos, New York University: C-Center And Syllabification In Moroccan Arabic. Their poster is here.



• Shaw, Patricia; University of British Columbia: Constraints On The Sequencing And Syllabification Of Obstruents. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Smolka, Eva; University of La Laguna, Joana Cholin and Manuel Carreiras, University of La Laguna: Syllable Production In Cued Speech.



• Minjung Son, Yale University and Haskins Laboratories: Place Assimilation as a Function of Phonological Contexts, not of Syllable Position. Her handout is forthcoming. Listen to her talk here.



• Donca Steriade, MIT: Metrical Evidence for an Interlude Theory of Weight. Her handout is here. Listen to her talk here.



• Takahashi, Toyomi, Surugadai University: ?Minimal? Template Satisfaction - A Prosodic Analysis Of ?Initial Gemination?. His poster is here.



• Úlfsbjörninn, Shanti, University of Cambridge: (N′′′ = Domain) Syllables As A Type Of Possible Constituent. The Word version of his talk is here. The PDF version is here. Listen to his talk here.



• Wagner, Monica Palmieri, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Valerie Shafer, The Graduate Center, CUNY: Phonotactic Influences In The Perception Of A Consonant Cluster By English And Polish Listeners. Their handout is here. Listen to their talk here.

Organizers:

Chuck Cairns, CUNY, and Eric Raimy University of Wisconsin

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