{"id":6203,"date":"2014-06-03T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:20:51","slug":"summer-conference-round-up-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/06\/03\/summer-conference-round-up-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Conference Round-Up, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/mfm\/22mfm.html\">The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting<\/a> (mfm22) was held May 29-31. Among the presentations were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Juliet Stanton and Donca Steriade<\/b>: <i>Stress windows and Base Faithfulness in English suffixal derivatives<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Yoonjung Kang<\/b> (PhD 2000), Tae-Jin Yoon and Sungwoo Han: <i>Lexical diffusion of vowel length merger in Seoul Korean: a corpus-based study<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Adam Albright<\/b>: <i>Epenthesis in rising sonority clusters in Lakhota<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Suyeon Yun<\/b>: <i>The role of acoustic disjuncture in loan epenthesis: experimental evidence<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Andrew Nevins<\/b> (PhD 2005) and Nina Topintzi: <i>Moraic onsets and cross-anchoring in Arrernte<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Giorgio Magri<\/b> (PhD 2009): <i>On the Prince-Tesar-Hayes&#8217; approach to OT restrictiveness<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Anthony Brohan<\/b>: <i>Licensing Catalan laryngeal neutralization by cue<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sam Zukoff<\/b>: <i>A correlation between stress and reduplication: Diyari and beyond<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li><b>Lilla Magyar<\/b>: <i>Gemination in Hungarian loanword adaptation<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li><b>Benjamin Storme<\/b>: <i>The Loi de Position and the acoustics of French mid vowels<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li>Katrin Skoruppa, <b>Andrew Nevins<\/b> and Stuart Rosen: <i>English listeners&#8217; use of vowel phonotactics for speech segmentation<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/projects\/salt2014\/SALT_2014\/Home.html\">The 24th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory<\/a> (SALT 24) was held at NYU on 5\/30-6\/1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the invited talks were <b>Valentine Hacquard<\/b> (PhD 2006), <i>Bootstrapping into attitudes<\/i>, and <b>Sarah Moss<\/b> (PhD MIT Philosophy 2009), <i>On the semantics of epistemic vocabulary<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Wataru Uegaki<\/b> gave a talk entitled <i>Japanese-type alternative questions in a cross-linguistic perspective<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Tue Trinh<\/b> (PhD 2011) presented a poster with Andreas Haida entitled <i>Building alternatives<\/i> as did <b>Luka Crni?<\/b> (PhD 2011), on <i>Scope fixing, scope economy, and focus movement<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marie-Christine Meyer <\/strong>(PhD 2013), gave a talk entitled\u00a0<em>Grammatical uncertainty implicatures and Hurford\u0092s constraint<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CNRS-IKER in the Basque Country will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/quantification2014\/home\">Workshop on Quantifier Scope: Syntactic, Semantic, and Experimental Approaches<\/a> on June 12-13. <b>Benjamin Bruening<\/b> (PhD 2001) will present an invited talk entitled <i>Giving and having: quantifier scope and secondary predicates<\/i>. <b>Susi Wurmbrand<\/b> (PhD 1998) is also giving an invited talk titled <i>Thoughts on the syntactic domain of QR.<\/i> <b>Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler<\/b> will present a talk entitled <i>Covered Box Task to investigate acquisition of scopally ambiguous sentences: evidence from scrambled sentences in Japanese<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>NINJAL and ICU are co-hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/iculinguistics.org\/fajl.html#program\">7th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics<\/a> (FAJL7) in Tokyo on June 27-29. The following are among the MIT-affiliated presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Miwako Hisagi<\/b>, Valerie Shafer, <b>Shigeru Miyagawa<\/b>, <b>Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara and Dimitrios Pantazis<\/b>: <i>Perception of Japanese vowel duration contrasts by L1 and L2 learners of Japanese: An EEG study<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Uli Sauerland<\/b> (PhD 1998) and Kazuko Yatsuhiro: <i>Japanese Reported Speech within the Emerging Typology of Speech Reports<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Shinichiro Ishihara<\/b> (PhD 2003): <i>On Match Constraints<\/i> (Invited Talk)<\/li>\n<li><b>Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler<\/b>: <i>Children do not accept unambiguous inverse-scope readings: experimental evidence from prosody and scrambling in Japanese<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Ryo Masuda<\/b>: <i>Phonological and lexical contexts and the phonetic realization of [voice] in Japanese<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li><b>Takashi Morita<\/b>: <i>Scalar implicature and restrictive focus particles<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, NINJAL will also host the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjal.ac.jp\/labphon14\/LabPhon_14\/03_program\/index.html\">14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology<\/a> (LabPhon 14), July 25-27. Presenting there are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yoonjung Kang<\/b> (PhD 2000), Tae-Jin Yoon and Sungwoo Han: <i>Lexical diffusion of vowel length merger in Seoul Korean: a corpus-based study<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Gillian Gallagher<\/b> (PhD 2010): <i>Determining the representation of phonotactic restrictions with nonce words <\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li><b>Suyeon Yun<\/b>: <i>Acoustic disjuncture in consonant clusters and vowel epenthesis<\/i> (Poster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm22) was held May 29-31. 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