Phon-stuff at the LSA
Lots of interesting stuff going on at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the LSA in Anaheim in January, as can be appreciated from the 11-page preliminary program. There are lots of regular sessions dedicated to aspects of phonetics or phonology; these are quickly listed below the fold in case you’re interested in scanning them before tackling the whole program. (There are of course also many relevant talks tucked into various other sessions, most of them psycholinguistically-oriented from what I can tell.)
What I want to do here is draw attention to the following special organized sessions of particular interest to phoneticians/phonologists, etc.
- Plenary Panel — Phonology: An Appraisal of the Field in 2007
- Organizers: Larry Hyman and Ellen Kaisse
- Discussants: Abigail Cohn, Bruce Hayes, Larry Hyman, Paul Kiparsky, and Donca Steriade
- Thursday 7:30pm-8:30pm, Friday 9:00am-12:00pm.
- Approaches to Language Complexity
- Organizers: David Harrison and Ryan Shosted
- Panelists: Ian Maddieson, Johanna Nichols, Francois Pellegrino, Sheri Wells-Jensen, Doug Whalen
- Friday 9:00am-12:00pm.
- Endangered Languages and Linguistic Theory
- Organizer: Alice Harris on behalf of CELP
- Speakers: Sally McConnell-Ginet, Juliette Blevins, Heidi Harley, Stephen R. Anderson, Mark Baker and Maria Polinsky
- Friday 2:00pm-5:00pm
- Towards an artificial grammar learning paradigm in phonology
- Organizers: Anne Pycha, Eurie Shin and Ryan Shosted
- Chair: John Ohala
- Speakers: Jennifer Cole, Hahn Koo, Sharon Peperkamp, Katrin Skoruppa, Anne Pycha, Eurie Shin, Ryan Shosted, Amanda Seidl, Eugene Buckley, Alejandrina Cristia, and Colin Wilson
- Saturday 9:00am-12:00pm
- Paradigms in Morphological Change
- Organizers: Claire Bowern, Andrew Garrett, and Alice Harris
- Speakers: Adam Albright, Claire Bowern, Andrew Garrett, Alice Harris, Brian Joseph, Harold Koch
- Saturday 2:00pm-5:00pm
- Symposium on Vowel Phonology and Ethnicity
- Organizers: Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Erik R. Thomas
- Cosponsored by CEDL and ADS
- Participants: Bridget Anderson, Claire Andres, John Baugh, Angus Bowers, Jeannine Carpenter, Becky Childs, Robin Dodsworth, Sylvie Dubois, David Durian, Christine Mallinson, Jennifer Nguyen, Thea Strand, Erik R. Thomas, Ben Torbert, Rachel Votta, Michael Wroblewski, Malcah Yaeger-Dror
- Sunday 9:00am-12:00pm
Quick list of regular sessions dedicated to aspects of phonetics or phonology:
Thursday, January 4
Contrasts (4:00pm-5:30pm), Sociophonetics (5:30pm-7:00pm), Modelling Phonological Learning (4:00pm-7:00pm)
Friday, January 5
Prosody (9:00am-12:00pm), Phonetics and Phonology posters (13:00pm-14:30pm), Articulation (2:00pm-5:00pm), Stress, Accent and Tone (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Saturday, January 6
Sound Change (9:00am-12:00pm), Laryngeal Features (2:00pm-3:30pm), Complex Vowels (3:30pm-5:00pm)
Sunday, January 7
Approaches to Optimality (9:00am-12:00pm), Language Acquisition: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology (9:00am-11:00am), Perceptual Cues (9:00am-1:00pm)
