HUMDRUM*

This year's OT-centric meeting of the graduate linguistics communities of Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University will be held April 8-9 in and around New Brunswick, NJ.

The talk schedule is as follows.

Saturday (Van Dyck Hall, rm. 211)

Time	Presenter	Session
10:30	Nagy, Rutgers "Depressor consonants in OT"	Phonology I
11	Kim, Rutgers "Murmur transfer and Extension of the morphological boundary"
11:30	Lunch (18 Seminary Place, rm. 108)
1	Hiller, Rutgers "Feature Appropriateness and Transcategorical Place Assimilation: Division of labor between ranking and feature geometry"
1:30	Struijke, UMD "Feature movement as splitting"
2	Nelson, Rutgers
2:30	Coetzee, UMASS "Nasal deletion in Tswana - interactions of faithfulness and markedness"
3	Break
3:30	Goldrick, JHU "The Emergence of the Unmarked in Gender Agreement Systems"	Syntax
4	Gouskova, UMASS "The Interaction of Topic and Constituency in Russian"
4:30	Davidson, JHU "Hidden strata and graded performance in Optimality Theory"	Acquisition
5	Werle, UMASS "Variation in Child Consonant Harmony"
7	Party (Grimshaw/Prince residence)

Sunday (18 Seminary Place, rm. 108)

9	Breakfast
9:30	Nuendel, Rutgers	Phonology II
10	Lubowicz, UMASS "Faithfulness as Contrast Preservation"
10:30	Robinson, Rutgers "A Prominence account of the trill - tap contrast in Spanish"
11	Break
11:30	Horwood, Rutgers "A Different Approach to Optional Optima"	General
12	Smith, UMASS "Constructing Constraints"

Questions or comments? Please address them to the HUMDRUM organizer in your area:

New Jersey: Graham Horwood <gvh@rci.rutgers.edu>
Maryland: Matt Goldrick <goldrick@jhu.edu>
Massachusetts: Paul de Lacy <delacy@linguist.umass.edu>

 

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