HUMDRUM 2001 Program
Saturday, May 5
1-2pm Lunch, 3505 N. Charles St.
2-2:30 Walk to Campus, Discuss next year's HUMDRUM
All sessions will take place in Ames Hall
234. There will be 20 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for
questions.
Session I: Syntax
Session Chair: Geraldine Legendre
- 2:30-3 Zsuzsa Nagy (Rutgers): Morphology Competes with Syntax:
Universal but Violable Order of Functional Projections
- 3-3:30 Ben Slade (JHU): Optimal Curves: An
Optimality-Theoretic Approach to the Evolution of do-Periphrasis in
English
Session II: Phonology A
Session Chair: Matt Goldrick
- 3:30-4 Amanda Seidl (JHU): Some Thoughts on Yoruba Vowel Elision and
Compounding
- 4-4:30 Nicole Nelson (Rutgers): TBA
4:30-5pm Break
Session III: Phonology B
Session Chair: Amanda Seidl
- 5-5:30 Angela Carpenter (UMass): Linearity and Adjacency in
Noncontiguous Metathesis
- 5:30-6 Ji-Yung Kim (UMass): Reduplication in Dakota: A Generalized
Template Theoretic Account
- 6-6:30 Nancy Hall (UMass): Recursive Syllabification and
Positional Maximalization
7:30pm-?? Dinner (and birthday party) at Paul and Geraldine's
house
Sunday, May 6
9:15-10am Breakfast in Ames 234
Session IV: Acquisition
Session Chair: Laura LaKusta
- 10-10:30 Lisa Davidson and Matt Goldrick (JHU):
Probabilistic Floating Constraint Ranges in Catalan
- 10:30-11 Karen Arnold and Elliott Moreton (JHU): Faithfulness and
Nasal Place Assimilation in 4.5-month-olds
11-11:30 Break
Session V: Phonology C
Session Chair: Elliott Moreton
- 11:30-12 Markus Hiller (Rutgers): Debuccalization and Chain Shifts
- 12-12:30 Maria Gouskova (UMass): Syllable Contact as a Relational
Hierarchy
- 12:30-1 Adam Werle (UMass): The Phonology of Erosion
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