Day 1: Thursday, September 17
Coffee and light breakfast 8:30-9:15
9:15 - 9:30
Hannah Sande and Florian Lionnet
9:30 - 10:15
What we have learned about tone
Will Leben
10:15 - 11:00
Some cases of grammatical tone that come close to being outward dominant, but don’t quite make it
Nicholas Rolle
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:00
How do speakers conceptualize their tone systems? Evidence from musical surrogate languages
Laura McPherson
12:45-1:30
Downstep in two varieties of English (BrE and Nigerian English)
Carlos Gussenhoven
Lunch break (lunch not provided) 1:30 - 2:15
2:15 - 3:00
Synchronic scalar vowel shifts: From Esimbi to Lobi
Hannah Sande
3:00 - 3:45
Whither Tira vowel harmony?
Sharon Rose
Break 3:45 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:45
Templatic effects and the emergence of polar tone in Kulaale derived adjectives
Florian Lionnet
4:45 - 5:30
Morphological doubling in Ndebele reduplication
Galen Sibanda
Day 2: Friday, September 18
Coffee and light breakfast 8:30-9:00
9:00 - 9:45
How theoretical concepts may lead us astray
Dmitry Idiatov
9:45 - 10:30
Diachronic scenarios as theory
Mark van de Velde
Coffee break 10:30-10:45
10:45 - 11:30
The fricative vowel /i̧/ in Kinyarwanda
Jack Merrill
11:30 - 12:15
Questions about the reconstruction of Niger-Congo syntax
Paul Kiparsky
Lunch (not provided): 12:15 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:45
Focus encoding and morphological cycles in Benue-Congo
Jeff Good
2:45 - 3:30
TBD
Peter Jenks
Student poster session 3:30-4:30
4:30 - 5:15
The joys of discovery in phonology and African languages
Larry Hyman