The fourth Rutgers-UMass Joint Class Meeting will take place at the Linguistics Department at Rutgers,
18 Seminary Place, College Ave Campus, on Saturday and Sunday, March 27-28.

The following is the program of the meeting (subject to last-minute changes). Everyone is welcome to attend.

-Ron Artstein.

Saturday, March 27
 
 1:00- 1.30 Paul de Lacy (UMass): Life, the Universe and Everything
 1:30- 2:00 Brett Hyde (Rutgers): Unboundedness
 2:00- 2:30 Ania Lubowicz (UMass): Partial Attraction & Chain Shifts: A Suicide Pact Between Constraints

 2:30- 3.45 Lunch

 3.45- 4.15 Caroline Jones (UMass): Restrictions on rhotics in Ngarinyman
 4.15- 4.45 Luba Butska (Rutgers): Double Trouble: High Tones in  Makonde Dialects.
 4.45- 5.15 Zsuzsa Nagy (Rutgers): Null Case and Null Agreement

 5.15- 5.30 Break

 5:30- 6:00 Ron Artstein (Rutgers): Case Constraints and Empty Categories in Optimality Theory Parsing
 6:00- 6:30 Madeline Holler (Rutgers): TBA
 6.30- 7.00 Bozena Cetnarowska (UMass): Interaction of Prosodic and Syntactic Constraints in Polish Nominals

 7:00       Party

Sunday, March 28
 
10:00-10:30 Markus Hiller (Rutgers): Opacity, Dominant Values,  Autosegments, and OT
10:30-11:00 Steve Parker (UMass): Bora Vowels and Distinctive Feature Theory
11:00-11:30 Samira Rguibi (UMass): Vowel Mutations in Tazi Moroccan  Arabic

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-12:15 Jen Smith (UMass): TBA
12:15-12:45 Nicole Nelson (Rutgers): Explaining Away ANCHOR-RIGHT: Nancowry Reduplication Revisited

12:45- 2.00 Lunch

2:00- 2:30 Graham Horwood (Rutgers): When Less is More: Anti-faithfulness in Subtractive Morphology
 2:30- 3:00 Heli Harrikari (UMass): Inalterability of Long Vowels in  Finnish
 3:00- 3:30 Ahmadu Kawu (Rutgers): Faithfulness and Markedness in Loan Vocabulary