CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLE

Conference Schedule

The Cuny Phonology Forum and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center cordially invite all participants in the Syllable Conference to attend a reception, which will be offered simultaneously with Poster Session 1, starting immediately after Paper Session 3, in the Linguistics and Speech and Hearing lounge on the 7th floor.

Thursday, January 17 9:30–11:00 am Paper Session 1, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, William Idsardi, University of Maryland

9:00	Registration

9:30	François Dell	EHESS-CNRS, Paris	Singing In Tashlhiyt Berber, A Language That Allows Vowel-Less Syllables

10:00	Catherine O. Ringen¹ and Robert Vago²	¹University of Iowa and ²Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY	Geminates And Syllable Structure

10:30	Patricia Shaw	University of British Columbia	Constraints On The Sequencing And Syllabification Of Obstruents

11:00–11:15 Coffee Break

11:15–12:00	Invited Speaker	Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Metrical Evidence for an Interlude Theory of Weight

12:00–1:30		Lunch

Thursday, January 17 1:30–3:00 pm Paper Session 2, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, Robert Vago, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

1:30	Andries W. Coetzee and Kevin B. McGowan	University of Michigan	Allophonic Cues To Syllabification

2:00	Clàudia Pons Moll	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	With Regard To Syllable Contact And The Sonority Scale

2:30	Ranjan Sen	University of Oxford	Diachronic Phonotactic Development In Latin: The Work Of Syllable Structure Or Linear Sequence?

3:00–3:15 Coffee Break

Thursday, January 17 3:15–4:15 pm Paper Session 3, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, Andrew Nevins, Harvard University

3:15	Monica Palmieri Wagner and Valerie L. Shafer	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	Phonotactic Influences In The Perception Of A Consonant Cluster By English And Polish Listeners

3:45	Michaël Gagnon and Charles Reiss	Concordia University	Rationalism And Empiricism In Syllabification

4:15–4:30 Coffee Break

4:30–5:15	Invited Speaker	Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut	Syllabic Structure and Licensing.
			Handout Here



Thursday, January 17 5:30–8:00 pm Reception and Poster Session 1, 7th Floor Lounge

Yael Neumann¹, Loraine K. Obler², Valerie Shafer², and Hilary Gomes³		¹Queens College, CUNY; ²Graduate Center, CUNY; ³City College, CUNY	Segmental And Syllabic Processing In Healthy Younger And Older Adults: An Electrophysiological Study

Toyomi Takahashi		Surugadai University	‘Minimal’ Template Satisfaction - A Prosodic Analysis Of ‘Initial Gemination’

Viktor Kharlamov and Marie-Hélène Côté		University of Ottawa	The Impact Of Experimental Task On Syllabification Judgments: A Case Study Of Russian

Vsevolod Kapatsinski		Indiana University	Implementing And Testing Theories Of Syllable Structure

Parth Bhatt, Juvenal Ndayirajige and Emmanuel Nikiema		University of Toronto	Are Branching Syllabic Constituents Really Necessary?

Rina Kreitman		Emory University	To Onset Or Not To Onset, That Is The Question

Friday, January 18 8:30–10:30 am Paper Session 4, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, Donca Steriade, Massachusetts of Technology

8:30	Registration

9:00	Iris Berent¹, Tracy Lennertz¹ and Paul Smolensky²	¹Florida Atlantic University, ²Johns Hopkins University	Sonority-Related Restrictions On Unattested Onset Clusters: Evidence From Nasals

9:30	Azra Ali, Michael Ingleby and David Peebles	University of Huddersfield	Anglophone Perceptions Of Arabic Syllable Structure

10:00	Marie-Hélène Côté	University of Ottawa	Syllabification, Variation And Perception

10:30–10:45		Coffee Break

10:45-11:30	Invited Speaker	Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Syllable in Speech Production Planning

Friday, January 18 11:30–1:30 Poster Session 2, a light lunch will be provided, 7th Floor Lounge

Inkie Chung		Central Connecticut State University	Syllable Structure In Korean Revisited
			Handout Here and full paper here.


Kuniya Nasukawa		Tohoku Gakuin University	The Syllabification Of Syllabic Nasals

Clàudia Pons Moll		Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	The Sonority Scale: Categorical Or Gradient?

Eva Smolka, Joana Cholin and Manuel Carreiras		University of La Laguna	Syllable Production In Cued Speech

Friday, January 18 1:30–3:00 pm Paper Session 5, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, to be announced

1:30	Bridget Samuels	Harvard University	A String Theory Of Syllables

2:00	Stuart Davis¹ and Karen Baertsch²	¹Indiana University, ²Southern Illinois University at Carbondale	On The Relationship Between Codas And Onset Clusters

2:30	Shanti Úlfsbjörninn	University of Cambridge	(N′′′ = Domain) Syllables As A Type Of Possible Constituent

3:00–3:15		Coffee Break

Friday, January 18 3:15–4:15 pm Paper Session 6, Segal Theatre
	Session Chair, Gita Martohardjono, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

3:15	San Duanmu	The University of Michigan	The CVX Theory Of Syllable Structure

3:45	Minjung Son	Yale University and Haskins Laboratories	Place Assimilation as a Function of Phonological Contexts, not of Syllable Position

4:15–4:30		Coffee Break

4:30–5:15	Invited Speaker	Bert Vaux, Cambridge University	The Morass Of Moras: Formal And Empirical Considerations Bearing On The Phonological Representation Of Timing And Subsyllabic Constituency
Bert Vaux's paper is cancelled because he learned that his airline had gone out of business when he arrived at Heathrow!

Saturday, January 19 10:00–11:30 am Paper Session 7, Room 9204/5
	Session Chair, Eric Raimy, University of Wisconsin

9:00	Registration

10:00	Amalia E. Gnanadesikan	West Chester University	Syllables And Syllabaries: What Writing Systems Tell Us About Syllable Structure

10:30	Maria Babyonyshev and Darya Kavitskaya	Yale University	Syllable Structure And Sonority: The Case Of Russian-Speaking Children With SLI

11:00	Jason D. Haugen	Williams College	The Syllable As Delimitation Of The Base For Reduplication

11:30–11:45 Coffee Break

11:45–12:30	Invited Speaker	Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University	Weight and Length

Saturday, January 19 12:30–2:30 Poster Session 3, a light lunch will be provided, 7th Floor Lounge

Jason Shaw and Adamantios Gafos		New York University	C-Center And Syllabification In Moroccan Arabic

David Eddington¹, Rebecca Treiman², Dirk Elzinga¹ and Mark Davies¹		¹Brigham Young University, ²Washington University in St. Louis	A Large-Scale Experimental Study Of English Syllabification

Agustina Carando		CUNY	The Korean Syllable And Moraic Theory

Charles Cairns		CUNY	The Modular Syllable
			Handout Here

Eric Raimy		University of Wisconsin	Deriving Syllable Phenomena From Parallel Representations
			Handout Here


Saturday, January 19 2:30–4:00pm Paper Session 8, Room 9204/5
	Session Chair, Dianne Bradley, Graduate Center, CUNY

2:30	Keiko Kuriyama and Jeri Jaeger	Randolf College and SUNY/Buffalo	The Mora or the Segment? Investigating the basic unit of spoken language processing through SOT data in Japanese

3:00	Fusa Katada	Waseda University	Word Reversing By A Person With Williams Syndrome: More Evidence For The Mora As Structural Unit

3:30	Joana Cholin	University of La Laguna	Do Syllables Exist? Psycholinguistic Evidence For The Retrieval Of Syllabic Units In Speech Production

4:00–4:15 Coffee Break

Saturday, January 19 4:15-5:15pm Paper Session 9, Room 9204/5
	Session Chair, Charles Cairns, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

4:15	Anthony Lewis	Syracuse University	Reassessing Constraints On Complex Rhymes In English: The Phonetic And Phonological Status Of The Coronal Obstruents

4:45	Patricia Schneider-Zioga	CSU Fullerton	The Reconciliation Of Body And Rhyme: Bare Syllable Structure

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CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLE

Sponsored by the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York and the CUNY Phonology Forum

Conference Schedule