{"id":3945,"date":"2012-04-02T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2012-03-31T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:02:31","slug":"mit-linguists-in-spain-and-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/04\/02\/mit-linguists-in-spain-and-england\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguists in Spain and England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/filcat.uab.cat\/clt\/cgg22\/index.html\">22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar<\/a> was held in Barcelona on March 21-23. <b>Donca Steriade<\/b> was an invited speaker (<i>The cycle without containment<\/i>), and talks were given by graduate student <b>Yusuke Imanishi<\/b> (<i>A Non-Uniform Merge of Argument WH: A Case Study in Kaqchikel<\/i>) and recent alum <b>Maria Giavazzi<\/b> (PhD 2010; &#8220;Assibilation in Standard Finnish: a case of stress-conditioned contrast neutralization&#8221;). The conference also included a poster by <b>Giorgio Magri<\/b> (PhD 2009; &#8220;No need for a theory of the distribution of readings of English bare plurals&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Next month, a sizable group of current and recent members of our department will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/mfm\/20mfm.html\">20th anniversary of the Manchester Phonology Meeting<\/a> (mfm20, May 24-26). As part of the anniversary, invited speakers will discuss unsolved problems in phonology. Among the speakers are faculty member <b>Donca Steriade<\/b>, on segment sequencing, and recent visitor <b>Nina Topintzi<\/b> (Universitaet Leipzig), on compensatory lengthening. Additionally, the following abstracts were accepted:<\/p>\n<p>Talks:<\/p>\n<p><b>Adam Albright<\/b>: &#8220;Shared neutralizations without shared representations&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Sam Alxatib<\/b>: &#8220;The stress-epenthesis opacity in Palestinian Arabic&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Tara McAllister Byun<\/b> (PhD 2009, Montclair State University), Sharon Inkelas, and Yvan Rose: &#8220;Transient phonology, CON and child phonological processes&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Laura McPherson<\/b> (Visiting student 2011, UCLA) and Bruce Hayes: &#8220;Relating application frequency to morphological structure: the case of Tommo So vowel harmony&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\nKevin Tang and <b>Andrew Nevins<\/b> (PhD 2005, UCL): &#8220;Learning from mistakes: computational modelling of slips of the ear&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posters:<\/p>\n<p><b>Gretchen Kern<\/b>: &#8220;Perceptual similarity in sonority contours: evidence from Early Irish rhyming patterns&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Giorgio Magri<\/b> (PhD 2009, University of Paris 7): &#8220;The stochastic error-driven ranking model of child variation&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Sam Steddy<\/b>: &#8220;How palatalisation in Italian verbs is a regular process&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Suyeon Yun<\/b>: &#8220;A typology of epenthesis positioning in loanword adaptation: A perceptual account&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar was held in Barcelona on March 21-23. Donca Steriade was an invited speaker (The cycle without containment), and talks were given by graduate student Yusuke Imanishi (A Non-Uniform Merge of Argument WH: A Case Study in Kaqchikel) and recent alum Maria Giavazzi (PhD 2010; &#8220;Assibilation in Standard Finnish: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}