Past RORG meetings have included:
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 2008-03-27 | Jonathan Wright (Rutgers): "Tone in Seoul Korean" |
| 2007-11-30 | Paul de Lacy (Rutgers): Introduction to the phonetics lab |
| 2007-11-02 | Jeremy Perkins (Rutgers): "Vowel Harmony in Yoruba" |
| 2007-10-26 | Bruce Tesar (Rutgers): "Linguistic Optimization" |
| 2007-09-28 | Brett Hyde (Washington University): "Onset-sensitive Stress" |
| 2006-03-03 | Jason Riggle (Chicago): "Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning of OT grammars" |
| 2006-02-24 | Paul de Lacy (Rutgers): "What is markedness?" |
| 2006-02-17 | Discussion: Selkirk (2005) "Bengali intonation revisited" |
| 2006-02-10 | Discussion: "Iambic Feet in Paumari and the Theory of Foot Structure", Daniel L. Everett |
| 2006-01-27 | Discussion: "Optimal paradigms", John McCarthys |
| 2005-12-09 | Naz Merchant (Rutgers) |
| 2005-11-18 | Alan Prince (Rutgers): "ERCs, FRed, RCD, HB, RM3": the Ranking Problem in OT |
| 2005-10-21 | Bruce Tesar (Rutgers): "Learning from paradigmatic information" |
| 2005-10-07 | Discussion: "Phonetically driven phonology", Bruce Hayes |
| 2005-09-23 | Discussion: "The phonetics-phonology interface", John Kingston |
| 2004-12-03 | José (Beto) Alberto Élias (Rutgers): "Relations between Weight Categorizations and Quantity: The Case of Lhasa Tibetan" |
| 2004-11-12 | Discussion of Bresnan, Joan and Tatiana Nikitina (2003), "On the Gradience of the Dative Alternation" |
| 2004-10-29 | Discussion of Goad, Heather and Yvan Rose (2004), "Input Elaboration, Head Faithfulness and Evidence for Representation in the Acquisition of Left-edge Clusters in West Germanic" |
| 2004-10-15 | Continuing discussion of McCarthy, John J. (2004), "Taking a Free Ride in Morphophonemic Learning". Discussion of Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo "The acquisition of phonological opacity" (ROA-593) and Hyman, Larry (1970) "How concrete is phonology", Language 46, pp.58-76 |
| 2004-10-01 | Discussion of McCarthy, John J. (2004), "Taking a Free Ride in Morphophonemic Learning" (ROA-683) |
| 2004-04-23 | Alan Prince and Adrian Brasoveanu (Rutgers): Discussion of "Fusion" |
| 2004-04-16 | Alan Prince and Adrian Brasoveanu (Rutgers): "Fusional ERC Theory", "Fusion Normal Form" |
| 2004-04-16 | Dissertation defense: Lian-Hee Wee (Rutgers), "Inter-tier Correspondence Theory" |
| 2004-03-12 | Máire Ní Chiosáin (UC Dublin): "Representing morphologically conditioned lenition in Irish" |
| 2004-02-13 | José (Beto) Alberto Élias (Rutgers): "Metrical Structure and Variable Closed Syllable Weight in Capanahua" |
| 2004-01-30 | Naz Merchant (Rutgers): "Using phonotactics to determine underlying form" |
| 2003-12-12 | Andre Nündel (Rutgers): "Feature Geometry as Optimality Theory" |
| 2003-11-21 | Markus Hiller (Rutgers): Assimilation is Minimization of Representations: How autosegments behave in OT" |
| 2003-10-24 | Discussion of McCarthy, John J. (2003), "Richness of the Base and the Determination of Underlying Representation" (ROA-616) |
| 2003-10-10 | Akinbiyi Akinlabi (Rutgers): "Tonal Metathesis in Lokaa" |
| 2003-09-26 | Maria Gouskova (Rutgers): "Minimal Reduplication as OO-Faithfulness" |
| 2002-03-08 | Discussion of Wilson, Colin (2002), "Consonant Cluster Neutralisation and Targeted Constraints" |
| 2002-02-22 | Discussion of McCarthy, John J. (2002), "Comparative Markedness" (ROA-489) |
| 2002-02-08 | Graham Horwood (Rutgers): "Relational Faithfulness and Conflicting Directionality" |
| 2002-01-25 | John Alderete (Rutgers): "Lexical Category faithfulness in Navajo" |
| 2001-10-26 | John Alderete (Rutgers): "Morpheme Phonotactics and Constraint Satisfaction in OT" |
| 2001-10-12 | Discussion of Colin Wilson, "Targeted Constraints" |
| 2001-09-28 | Bruce Tesar (Rutgers): "Distributional Learning in Constraint Interaction" |
| 2001-04-27 | Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College at London): "An OT-based Prosody-Syntax Interface and its Consequences on the Expression of Focus" |
| 2001-04-20 | Frida Morelli (Rutgers): "Beyond obstruent clusters: Asymmetries among syllable positions" |
| 2001-04-06 | Discussion of Myers, James (2001), "Lexical Phonology and the Lexicon" (ROA-330) |
| 2001-03-23 | Bruce Tesar (Rutgers): "Learning Phonotactic Distributions" |
| 2001-03-09 | Zsuzsa Nagy (Rutgers): "Tonal Depression in Nupe" |
| 2001-03-02 | Nicole Nelson (Rutgers): "Left Anchoring: Asymmetry and typology" |
| 2001-02-09 | Andre Nuendel (Rutgers): "Secondary articulation in consonantal inventories" |
| 2001-01-26 | Discussion of Ussishkin, Adam (1999), "The inadequacy of consonantal root: Modern Hebrew denominal verbs and output-output correspondence" |