Schedule of Talks for Fall 2015 Previous Meetings AUGUST 31 - Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley)
Why underlying representations? SEPTEMBER 7 - No Meeting (Labor Day) SEPTEMBER 14 - Phorum Phround Phrobin (Come Prepared!)

We invite you to come with a phonetic or phonological topic or some interesting data that you are prepared to discuss for 5-10 minutes. If you do not have a topic to present, come prepared to ask questions and discuss the data that others bring!

SEPTEMBER 21 - Article Discussion (Ph Journal Club)

Finley, Sara. 2015. Learning nonadjacent dependencies in phonology:...

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Phorum 2016

Fall 2016 AUGUST 29 - You! (Phorum Round Robin)

Come to our first Phorum of the year with a 5 minute (or less) Ph-related musing, question, or update on what you did this summer.

SEPTEMBER 5 - No Phorum (Labor Day) SEPTEMBER 12 - Brian W. Smith (UC Santa Cruz)
French schwa and cumulative constraint interaction

Grammars with weighted constraints predict the existence of ganging effects: cases where two constraints combine to overcome the effect of one competing constraint. This talk presents a case study of one such ganging effect in French, using it to argue for an analysis in...

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Phonetic Attention and Predictability: How Context Shapes Exemplars and Guides Sound Change

Jonathan T. Manker

2017

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Distributing morphologically conditioned phonology: Three case studies from Guébie

Hannah L. Sande

2017

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Linguistic constraints on compensation for altered auditory feedback

Shira Eden Katseff

2010

Advisor: Keith Johnson

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Causes and Consequences of Convergence

Jevon S. Heath

2017

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Mobile object markers in Moro: The role of tone

Peter Jenks

Sharon Rose

2015

Object markers alternate between a prefix and a suffix position in the Thetogovela dialect of Moro, an underdocumented Kordofanian language of Sudan. Although the alternation appears to depend on the morphosyntactic category of verb forms, we show that it actually follows from the tonal properties of these verb forms. Verb stems that are usually marked with a default, phonologically predictable leftmost high tone select prefix object markers. The high-toned prefix object marker appears inside the stem, and its high tone serves as the default tone of the stem, obviating the need for...