The third Rutgers UMass Joint Class Meeting will take place at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on February 28 and March 1, 1998. The theme of this workshop is Optimality Theory.
PROGRAM
Saturday, February 28
12:00-12:30 Steve Parker
Disjoint Metrical Tiers in Huariapano
12:30-1:00 Eric Bakovic
Unbounded Stress and Factorial Typology
1:00-1:15 Coffee Break
1:15-1:45 Bruce Tesar
Complaint Interaction
1:45-2:15 Paul de Lacy
Prominent Positions in Niuafo'ou
2:15-4:00 Lunch
4:00-4:30 Nicole Nelson
Mixed Alignment Effects in French Hypocoristic Formation
4:30-5:00 Jennifer Smith
Copying Without Reduplication
5:00-5:15 Coffee Break
5:15-5:45 Ania Lubowicz
Infixation as Morpheme Absorption
5:45-6:15 Ed Keer
Deriving a Lexical OCP
7:00-?:?? PARTY
Sunday, March 1
10:00-10:30 John Alderete
Topics in Morphologically Governed Accent
10:30-11:00 Patrik Bye
Quantitative Truncation in Northern Saami
11:00-11:30 Brett Hyde
Descent Domains
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Mariko Sugahara
Japanese Compound Noun Accent
1:30-2:00 Ron Artstein
Animacy, Clitics and Markedness in Sesotho
2:00-2:30 Caroline Jones
Markedness and Opacity Effects in Umpila Reduplication

Updated February 25, 1998; send comments and corrections to Ron Artstein (artstein@eden.rutgers.edu)