Sponsored by the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York
January 14-15, 2016, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., New York City
Original Call and Conference Schedule
Please find below the Abstracts and Handouts for the talks in alphabetical order.
- Berent, Iris – On the basis of sonority restrictions Affiliation: Northeastern University Abstract Handout
- Blevins, Juliette & Ander Egurtzegi – The Nature of Obstruent Loss in Basque Borrowings with Initial OR Clusters Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY & Universidad Compultense de Madrid Abstract
- Bucci, Jonathan – Mid-vowel alternation in Coratino. An analysis based on Element Theory Affiliation: Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis Abstract
- Cavirani, Edoardo – An Element Theory approach to vowel reduction and epenthesis Affiliation: Meertens Institute, Amsterdam Abstract Handout
- Cépeda, Paola & Michael Becker – Sonority restricts laryngealized plosives in Southern Aymara Affiliation: Stony Brook University Abstract Handout
- Chitoran, Ioana – Sonority from an articulatory perspective Affiliation: Université Paris Diderot Abstract
- Davis, Stuart – Explaining the Role of Sonority in English Schwa Syncope Affiliation: Indiana University Abstract
- Faria, Geraldo – Deviation from Typological Sonority: Voiceless as Markedness in Bakairi Affiliation: Vrije University, Amsterdam Abstract Handout
- Gordon, Matthew – Invited Talk – Quantifying sonority on the fringes of stress Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara Abstract
- Haghverdi, Vartan – Misinterpretation of tone as stress: Eastern Armenian Affiliation: Rutger University Abstract
- Krämer, Martin & Draga Zec – Relativized Sonority: Nasal adaptivity in syllable phonetics Affiliation: UiT The Arctic University of Norway & Cornell University Abstract
- Lahrouchi, Mohamed – On the role of sonority in the verb morphology of Tashlhiyt Berber Affiliation: Université Paris 8 Abstract
- Macaulay, Benjamin – When phonetics is not enough: Syllable parsing and laryngeally-complex nuclei Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY Abstract Handout
- Parker, Stephen – Invited Talk – Reconsidering sonority dispersion and liquid vs. glide offsets: what do the typological facts indicate? Affiliation: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Abstract
- Pillion, Elizabeth – Morphologically Derived Environments and SSP Violations: The Case of Lezgi Affiliation: University of Chicago Abstract Handout
- Risdal, Megan et.al – The relationship between sonority and glottal vibration Megan Risdal, Ann Aly, Adam Chong, Patricia Keating, & Jesse Zymet Affiliation: University of California Los Angeles Abstract
- Schwartz, Geoffrey & Adam Mickiewicz – Sonority is epiphenomenal – phonotactics in the Onset Prominence Framework Affiliation: University, Poznań, Poland Abstract Handout
- Shih, Shu-Hao – Does Gujarati stress avoid the lowest sonority vowel [ə]? Affiliation: Rutgers University Abstract Handout
- Spradlin, Lauren – Reconsidering Higgledy Piggledy Constructions: Morpheme-level Sonority-based Constraints are a No Go, but Analogical Extension is Handy Dandy Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY Abstract
- Wilson, Colin & Lisa Davidson – Sonority projection effects: extra syllables without epenthetic vowels Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University & New York University Abstract
- Yun, Suyeon – The Sonority Sequencing Principle in Consonant Cluster Perception Revisited Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract
- Zhu, Hanzhi – The Syllable Contact Law in Kyrgyz Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract