13:30 - 18:00
Panel Format
Presenters give a case study in 10 minutes and then prepare to debate all of it at the end.
1:30 Welcome
Session 1
1:35 Samuel Andersson: X-Slots vs. Moras: A case study of stress assignment in Abkhaz
1:45 Ellen Broselow: Moraic Structure and Segment Duration
1:55 Chris Golston & Wolfgang Kehrein: Prosody, Not Segments
2:05 Bert Vaux & Romany Whittall: Lengthening by Encliticization in Khdrbeg favors a distributed prosodic model
2:15 Roland Noske: Processes of ‘compensatory lengthening’ in Early Middle English, disproving the moraic model of the syllable.
2:25 Clarification Questions
2:40 Break
Session 2
2:55 Gloria Mellesmoen: The Mora is Key to Unified Analysis of Microvariation in Reduplication: The Distribution and Form of Plural Reduplication Across Dialects of Straits (Salish)
3:05 Stuart Davis & Mamdouh Alhuwakim: Geminate patterning as evidence for moraic syllabification: Evidence from Arabic Dialects
3:15 Francesc (Xico) Torres-Tamarit: Contrastive vowel length in Romance: how layered feet and uneven trochees interact
3:25 Noam Faust: Vowel shortening in Palestinian Arabic
3:35 Yuko Yoshida: Skeletal Positions as the Timing Unit
3:45 Clarification Questions
4:00 Break
Session 3
4:15 Diana Passino: Bimoraic or templatic minimality in the evolution of Romance vowels?
4:25 Natália Brambatti Guzzo: Consonant syllabification may vary: Plural alternations in Brazilian Veneto
4:35 Markéta Ziková: The epenthetic puzzle in Czech and Croatian: a unified Strict CV account
4:45 Jeff Lamontagne: Incorporating CV Phonology: Unifying domains in Laurentian French prominence
4:55 Clarification Questions
5:10 PANEL DEBATE (inc. your humble hosts)
+ Audience Participation +
6:00 End & Projected Unanimous Agreement