SEPTEMBER 11
Discussion of John J. McCarthy (2006), "Candidates and Derivations in Optimality Theory", led by Marc Ettlinger.
SEPTEMBER 18
Discussion of "Phase Transitions in a Repetitive Speech Task as Gestural Recomposition" by Kenneth de Jong, Byung-jin Lim & Kyoko Nagao (2006) and "Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian" by Ioana Chitoran, Louis Goldstein & Dani Byrd (to appear). Sam Tilsen will lead discussion.
SEPTEMBER 25
Discussion of "Turbid output representations and the unity of opacity" by Matt Goldrick (2000) and "Derived Environment Effects and Consistency of Exponence by Marc van Oostendorp (2006). Teresa McFarland will lead discussion.
OCTOBER 2
Discussion of "Encoding of pitch in the human brainstem is sensitive to language experience" by Ananthanarayan Krishnan, Yisheng Xu, Jackson Gandour & Peter Cariani (2005). Keith Johnson will lead discussion.