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Exploring the Interfaces 3

Prosody and Constituent Structure.

May 8-10, 2014
McGill University

About the Workshop.

Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3 is the last of three workshops organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group (McSIRG) as part of a multi-year grant to study linguistic interfaces. Following ETI 1 (Word structure) and ETI 2 (Implicatures, alternatives and the semantics/pragmatics interface), the topic of ETI 3 is 'Prosody and Constituent Structure'. In particular, ETI 3 will deal with issues surrounding prosodic and phonological evidence for syntactic constituent structure, with a focus on verb-initial languages.

 

Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3 est le dernier de trois ateliers organisés par le McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group (McSIRG) faisant parti d’une subvention sur plusieurs années pour étudier les interfaces linguistiques. Suite à ETI 1 (Word structure) et ETI 2 (Implicatures, alternatives and the semantics/pragmatics interface), le thème de ETI 3 est « Prosody and Constituent Structure ». En particulier, ETI 3 traitera des questions relatives à la preuve prosodique et phonologique de la structure du constituant syntaxique, avec un accent sur les langues verbe-initiales.

Goals of the Workshop

  • To bring together researchers working on issues at the syntax-phonology interface (e.g. syntactic constituency, prosodic effects on word order) from the perspectives of syntax, prosody, and phonology/phonetics

  • To bring together researchers working on a variety of different languages, with an emphasis on languages with default verb-initial word order

  • To encourage communication and discussion about methodologies that can be used for the empirical study of prosody and the syntax-phonology interface

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)

This conference is co-funded by the following grants:

  • Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) Team Grant 2012-SE-144646 on Syntactic Interfaces

  • Connection Grant 611-2013-0125 from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant 410-2011-1062 on Relative prosodic boundary strength and its role in encoding syntactic structure

Organizing Committee

  • Jessica Coon

  • Emily Elfner​

  • Lisa Travis

  • Michael Wagner

Student Organizers

  • Michael Hamilton

  • Henrison Hsieh

  • Yuliya Manyakina

  • Liz Smeets

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