Day 1: Thursday, September 17
Coffee and light breakfast 8:30-9:15
9:15 - 9:30
Hannah Sande and Florian Lionnet
Session 1 (Chair: Hannah Sande)
10:15 - 11:00
Some cases of grammatical tone that come close to being outward dominant, but don’t quite make it [abstract]
Nicholas Rolle
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:15
Session 2 (Chair: Peter Jenks)
11:15 - 12:00
How do speakers conceptualize their tone systems? Evidence from musical surrogate languages [abstract]
Laura McPherson
12:00-12:45
Downstep in two varieties of English (BrE and Nigerian English) [abstract]
Carlos Gussenhoven
Lunch break (lunch not provided) 12:45 - 2:15
Session 3 (Chair: Alice Lee-Kleinberg)
Break 3:45 - 4:00
Session 4 (Chair: Kai Schenck)
Day 2: Friday, September 18
Coffee and light breakfast 8:30-9:00
Session 5 (Chair: Florian Lionnet)
Coffee break 10:30-10:45
Session 6 (Chair: Katherine Russell)
11:30 - 12:15
Questions about the reconstruction of Niger-Congo syntax
Paul Kiparsky
Lunch (not provided): 12:15 - 2:00
Session 7 (Chair: Darya Kavitskaya)
Poster session + coffee 2:45-4:00
(Becky Everson, Alice Lee-Kleinberg, Katherine Russell, Kai Schenck)
Session 8 (Chair: Sharon Inkelas)
4:00 - 4:45
The joys of discovery in phonology and African languages
Larry Hyman