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CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLE

Sponsored by the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York and the CUNY Phonology Forum

January 17th-19th, 2008 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Conference Schedule

The Cuny Phonology Forum and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center cordially invite all participants in the Syllable Conference to attend a reception, which will be offered simultaneously with Poster Session 1, starting immediately after Paper Session 3, in the Linguistics and Speech and Hearing lounge on the 7th floor.
      
Thursday, January 17 9:30?11:00 am Paper Session 1, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, William Idsardi, University of Maryland
      
9:00Registration
      
9:30François DellEHESS-CNRS, ParisSinging In Tashlhiyt Berber, A Language That Allows Vowel-Less Syllables
      
10:00Catherine O. Ringen¹ and Robert Vago²¹University of Iowa and ²Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNYGeminates And Syllable Structure
      
10:30Patricia ShawUniversity of British ColumbiaConstraints On The Sequencing And Syllabification Of Obstruents
      
11:00?11:15     Coffee Break
      
11:15?12:00Invited SpeakerDonca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMetrical Evidence for an Interlude Theory of Weight
      
12:00?1:30Lunch
      
Thursday, January 17 1:30?3:00 pm Paper Session 2, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, Robert Vago, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
      
1:30Andries W. Coetzee and Kevin B. McGowanUniversity of MichiganAllophonic Cues To Syllabification
      
2:00Clàudia Pons MollUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaWith Regard To Syllable Contact And The Sonority Scale
      
2:30Ranjan SenUniversity of OxfordDiachronic Phonotactic Development In Latin: The Work Of Syllable Structure Or Linear Sequence?
      
3:00?3:15     Coffee Break
      
Thursday, January 17 3:15?4:15 pm Paper Session 3, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, Andrew Nevins, Harvard University
      
3:15Monica Palmieri Wagner and Valerie L. ShaferThe Graduate Center, City University of New YorkPhonotactic Influences In The Perception Of A Consonant Cluster By English And Polish Listeners
      
3:45Michaël Gagnon and Charles ReissConcordia UniversityRationalism And Empiricism In Syllabification
      
4:15?4:30     Coffee Break
      
4:30?5:15Invited SpeakerHarry van der Hulst, University of ConnecticutSyllabic Structure and Licensing.
Handout Here
      
      
      
Thursday, January 17 5:30?8:00 pm Reception and Poster Session 1, 7th Floor Lounge
      
Yael Neumann¹, Loraine K. Obler², Valerie Shafer², and Hilary Gomes³¹Queens College, CUNY; ²Graduate Center, CUNY; ³City College, CUNYSegmental And Syllabic Processing In Healthy Younger And Older Adults: An Electrophysiological Study
      
Toyomi TakahashiSurugadai University?Minimal? Template Satisfaction - A Prosodic Analysis Of ?Initial Gemination?
      
Viktor Kharlamov and Marie-Hélène CôtéUniversity of OttawaThe Impact Of Experimental Task On Syllabification Judgments: A Case Study Of Russian
      
Vsevolod KapatsinskiIndiana UniversityImplementing And Testing Theories Of Syllable Structure
      
Parth Bhatt, Juvenal Ndayirajige and Emmanuel NikiemaUniversity of TorontoAre Branching Syllabic Constituents Really Necessary?
      
Rina KreitmanEmory UniversityTo Onset Or Not To Onset, That Is The Question
      
      
      
Friday, January 18 8:30?10:30 am Paper Session 4, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, Donca Steriade, Massachusetts of Technology
      
8:30Registration
      
9:00Iris Berent¹, Tracy Lennertz¹ and Paul Smolensky²¹Florida Atlantic University, ²Johns Hopkins UniversitySonority-Related Restrictions On Unattested Onset Clusters: Evidence From Nasals
      
9:30Azra Ali, Michael Ingleby and David PeeblesUniversity of HuddersfieldAnglophone Perceptions Of Arabic Syllable Structure
      
10:00Marie-Hélène CôtéUniversity of OttawaSyllabification, Variation And Perception
      
10:30?10:45Coffee Break
      
10:45-11:30Invited SpeakerStefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Syllable in Speech Production Planning
      
Friday, January 18 11:30?1:30 Poster Session 2, a light lunch will be provided, 7th Floor Lounge
      
Inkie ChungCentral Connecticut State UniversitySyllable Structure In Korean Revisited
Handout Here and full paper here.
      
      
Kuniya NasukawaTohoku Gakuin UniversityThe Syllabification Of Syllabic Nasals
      
Clàudia Pons MollUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaThe Sonority Scale: Categorical Or Gradient?
      
Eva Smolka, Joana Cholin and Manuel CarreirasUniversity of La LagunaSyllable Production In Cued Speech
      
Friday, January 18 1:30?3:00 pm Paper Session 5, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, to be announced
      
1:30Bridget SamuelsHarvard UniversityA String Theory Of Syllables
      
2:00Stuart Davis¹ and Karen Baertsch²¹Indiana University, ²Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleOn The Relationship Between Codas And Onset Clusters
      
2:30Shanti ÚlfsbjörninnUniversity of Cambridge(N′′′ = Domain) Syllables As A Type Of Possible Constituent
      
3:00?3:15Coffee Break
      
Friday, January 18 3:15?4:15 pm Paper Session 6, Segal Theatre
      Session Chair, Gita Martohardjono, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
      
3:15San DuanmuThe University of MichiganThe CVX Theory Of Syllable Structure
      
3:45Minjung SonYale University and Haskins LaboratoriesPlace Assimilation as a Function of Phonological Contexts, not of Syllable Position
      
4:15?4:30Coffee Break
      
4:30?5:15Invited SpeakerBert Vaux, Cambridge UniversityThe Morass Of Moras: Formal And Empirical Considerations Bearing On The Phonological Representation Of Timing And Subsyllabic Constituency
Bert Vaux's paper is cancelled because he learned that his airline had gone out of business when he arrived at Heathrow!
      
      
Saturday, January 19 10:00?11:30 am Paper Session 7, Room 9204/5
      Session Chair, Eric Raimy, University of Wisconsin
      
9:00Registration
      
10:00Amalia E. GnanadesikanWest Chester UniversitySyllables And Syllabaries: What Writing Systems Tell Us About Syllable Structure
      
10:30Maria Babyonyshev and Darya KavitskayaYale UniversitySyllable Structure And Sonority: The Case Of Russian-Speaking Children With SLI
      
11:00Jason D. HaugenWilliams CollegeThe Syllable As Delimitation Of The Base For Reduplication
      
11:30?11:45     Coffee Break
      
11:45?12:30Invited SpeakerPaul Kiparsky, Stanford UniversityWeight and Length
      
Saturday, January 19 12:30?2:30 Poster Session 3, a light lunch will be provided, 7th Floor Lounge
      
Jason Shaw and Adamantios GafosNew York UniversityC-Center And Syllabification In Moroccan Arabic
      
David Eddington¹, Rebecca Treiman², Dirk Elzinga¹ and Mark Davies¹¹Brigham Young University, ²Washington University in St. LouisA Large-Scale Experimental Study Of English Syllabification
      
Agustina CarandoCUNYThe Korean Syllable And Moraic Theory
      
Charles CairnsCUNYThe Modular Syllable
Handout Here
      
Eric RaimyUniversity of WisconsinDeriving Syllable Phenomena From Parallel Representations
Handout Here
      
      
Saturday, January 19 2:30?4:00pm Paper Session 8, Room 9204/5
      Session Chair, Dianne Bradley, Graduate Center, CUNY
      
2:30Keiko Kuriyama and Jeri JaegerRandolf College and SUNY/BuffaloThe Mora or the Segment? Investigating the basic unit of spoken language processing through SOT data in Japanese
      
3:00Fusa KatadaWaseda UniversityWord Reversing By A Person With Williams Syndrome: More Evidence For The Mora As Structural Unit
      
3:30Joana CholinUniversity of La LagunaDo Syllables Exist? Psycholinguistic Evidence For The Retrieval Of Syllabic Units In Speech Production
      
4:00?4:15     Coffee Break
      
Saturday, January 19 4:15-5:15pm Paper Session 9, Room 9204/5
      Session Chair, Charles Cairns, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
      
4:15Anthony LewisSyracuse UniversityReassessing Constraints On Complex Rhymes In English: The Phonetic And Phonological Status Of The Coronal Obstruents
      
4:45Patricia Schneider-ZiogaCSU FullertonThe Reconciliation Of Body And Rhyme: Bare Syllable Structure

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