WCCFL 26 at Berkeley
The program for WCCFL 26 (at Berkeley, April 27-29) was announced on LINGUIST List the other day. There are three phonology sessions this year, one each day.
Phonology 1 (Friday 10-12)
- Bidirectional stress systems
Brett Hyde (Washington University) - Explaining nonfinality: Evidence from Finnish
Daniel Karvonen (University of Minnesota) - Vowel sonority and coda weight
Matthew Gordon, Carmen Jany, Carlos Nash, and Nobutaka Takara (University of California, Santa Barbara) - More velar than /g/: Consonant coarticulation as a cause of diphthongization
Adam Baker (University of Arizona), Jeff Mielke (University of Ottawa), and Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona)
Phonology 2 (Saturday 2-4)
- Second occurrence focus and the acoustics of prominence
Jonathan Howell (Cornell University) - Phonological constraints on constituent ordering
Arto Antilla (Stanford University) - Prosody can outrank syntax
David Teeple (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Speakers’ sensitivity to the markedness of unattested onsets
Iris Berent (Florida Atlantic University), Donca Steriade (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Tracy Lennertz (Florida Atlantic University)
Phonology 3 (Sunday 10-12)
- On selective harmony systems in Bantu and the Kikongo solution
Fidele Mpiranya (University of Chicago) - When exceptions are encoded at the segmental level
Michal Martinez (University of Southern California) - Learning bias as a factor in phonological typology
Elliot Moreton (University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill) - Gestural alignment constraints and vowel devoicing in Andean Spanish
Ann Delforge (University of California, Davis)
