Programme

All talks will take place in Meeting Room 3,

On the third floor of Building No. 8,

Tsuchitoi Campus, Tohoku Gakuin University,

Tsuchitoi 1-3-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai

Thursday 1 September

12:45- Registration

13:20-13:30 Welcome

13:30-14:05 Toyomi Takahashi (Toyo University)

Recursion in non-nuclear positions

14:05-14:40 Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)

Recursive strong assignment from phonology to syntax

14:40-15:10 Break

15:10-15:45 Kuniya Nasukawa and Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University)

Recursion in element-based prosodic structure

15:45-16:20 Hitomi Onuma (Iwate Medical University)

Element suppression in recursive structure

16:20-16:40 Break

16:40-17:40 Guest Speaker: Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

There is recursion, but there are no heads

17:40-18:10 Discussion

Friday 2 September

10:00-11:10 Guest Speaker: Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Recursive mechanisms in Onset Prominence constituent formation

11:10-11:30 Break

11:30-12:05 Chihkai Lin (Soochow University, Taiwan)

Decomposition and recursive structure? A case study of glide formation of prevocalic glide /j/

12:05-12:40 Clemens Poppe (NINJAL/JSPS)

Constraining the number of intra-segmental positions with identical elements: a view from English and Japanese vowel structure

12:40-12:50 Closing Remarks