Spring 2012 PhonLunch schedule

All meetings are on Monday at 1 p.m. in the Linguistics department reading room unless otherwise noted.

Monday, January 30
– Khalil Iskarous – A dynamic systems approach to prosody (review of work by Goldsmith, Prince, Larson & Smolensky)
Monday, February 6
– Matt Wolf (Yale) – Exceptions to cyclicity in Maltese: Deferral vs. detouring (abstract)
Tuesday, Feburary 14 (12:30 p.m.)
– Erika Varis – The syntax-phonology interface: segment adjacency and syntactic heads
Monday, February 20
– President's Day (no meeting)
Monday, February 27 (7:30 p.m.)
– USC-UCLA joint phonology seminar meeting – Robert Daland (UCLA) – directions (abstract)
Monday, March 19
– Assaf Israel – Emphatic segments and emphasis spread in Lebanese Arabic: a real-time MRI study
Monday, March 26
– Peter Guekguezian – Vowel lowering and prosodic size requirements in Chukchansi Yokuts
Monday, April 9 colloquium (3:30 p.m.)
– Edward Flemming (MIT) – The phonetic specification of contour tones: The rising tone in Mandarin (preceded by lunch in the reading room at 1 p.m.)
Tuesday, April 17 (12:30 p.m.)
– Erika Varis – The syntax-phonological interface: phonological sensitivity to syntactic heads
Monday, April 23 colloquium (3:30 p.m.)
– José Ignacio Hualde (UIUC) – Word-boundary effects in sound change (preceded by lunch in the reading room at 1 p.m.)