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SCHEDULE.

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Thursday, May 8
Friday, May 9
Saturday, May 10

8:30-9:00am

Registration, Coffee, Tea, and Bagels

9:00am-12:00pm

TUTORIAL 1: LingSync: Creating and maintaining a shared database for communities, linguists and language learners

Joel Dunham (UBC), Elise McClay (McGill) & Hisako Noguchi (Concordia)

12:00-1:30pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

SESSION 1

Chair: Jessica Coon

1:30-2:10pm

Prosodic Noun Incorporation

Lauren Clemens (Harvard)

2:10-2:50pm

Issues in constituency in Niuean

Diane Massam (University of Toronto)

2:50-3:30pm

Tagalog phrase structure and preliminary prosodic results

Henrison Hsieh & Lisa Travis (McGill)

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

SESSION 2

Chair: Lisa Travis

4:00-4:40pm

Syntax-prosody mismatches in Irish and English verb-initial structures

Emily Elfner (McGill)

4:40-5:20pm

Prosody, focus, and ellipsis in Irish

James McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)

5:20-6:00pm

Prosody as a test for constituency?

Michael Wagner (McGill)

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9:30-10:00am

Coffee, Tea, Bagels

SESSION 3

Chair: Henrison Hsieh

10:00-10:40am

Another look at Tagalog prosody

Norvin Richards (MIT)

10:40-11:20am

Intonation, adjunction, and verb-initial word order in Tagalog

Joseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington)

11:20am-12:00pm

Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate-initial sentences in Serbian

Molly Diesing & Draga Zec (Cornell)

12:00-2:00pm

Poster Session with Lunch (Provided)

SESSION 4

Chair: Liz Smeets

2:00-2:40pm

Structural restrictions on H tone spread in Xitsonga

Seunghun Lee (CCSU) & Elisabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

2:40-3:20pm

Flexible approach to the syntax-phonology mapping of Intonational Phrases

Fatima Hamlaoui (ZAS) & Kriszta Szendroi (UCL)

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

SESSION 5

Chair: Yuliya Manyakina

4:00-4:40pm

The H- phrase tone in Samoan: a prosodic or syntactic marker?

Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)

4:40-5:20pm

Prosodic evidence for the syntactic constituency of demonstratives: Evidence from Blackfoot

Joseph W. Windsor (University of Calgary)

5:20-6:00pm

The prosody and syntax of focus in Mi’gmaq

Michael David Hamilton (McGill)

6:00-7:00pm

Pre-Dinner Drinks

7:00pm

Workshop Dinner

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9:30-10:00am

Coffee, Tea, Bagels

SESSION 6

Chair: Michael Hamilton

10:00-10:40am

Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan

Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

10:40-11:20am

Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language — clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!

Candide Simard (SOAS) & Claudia Wegener (Bielefeld University)

11:20am-12:00pm

Syntax-prosody mismatches in Mayan

Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)

12:00-2:00pm

Lunch Break (Provided)

2:00-5:00pm

TUTORIAL 2: Automatic Acoustic Alignment (Prosodylab-Aligner)

Kyle Gorman (OHSU) & Erin Olson (MIT)

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Invited Speakers

  • Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)

  • Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)

  • Lauren Clemens (Harvard)

  • Emily Elfner (McGill)

  • Diane Massam (University of Toronto)

  • Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)

  • Norvin Richards (MIT)

  • Joey Sabbagh (UT Arlington)

  • Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Location

Thomson House

3650 McTavish Street

Montréal, Québec, H3A 1Y2

 

  • Talks will be held in the Thomson House Ballroom (3rd Floor).

  • Talks are 30 minutes with a 10-minute question period. (Total of 40 minutes)
     

  • The Poster Session will be held in Room 404 on Friday, May 9, 12:00-2:00pm.

  • Poster boards will be 45.5" (long) by 46" (wide) and will fit a standard A0 size poster in either orientation. Pins will be provided.

  • Poster presenters are requested to bring their posters with them on Friday morning.

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