Thirteenth North American Phonology Conference

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(Tentative) Program for NAPhCxiii

Thirteenth North American Phonology Conference

https://sites.google.com/view/naphcxiii

Concordia University, Montréal Room MB-5.255 (1450 Guy St.)

May 9-10, 2025

Thursday, May 8

⋆ 19:00 Informal meet and greet at Brass Door Pub 2171 Crescent St

Friday, May 9 in MB 5.265

⋆ 8:30 Coffee and carbs

⋆ 8:58 Opening Ceremony

1. 9:00 Marjorie Leduc (Rutgers): A Unified Approach to Use It or Lose It and Sour Grapes in ATR Harmony

2. 9:30 Bert Vaux and Ben LaFond, (Cambridge): Modelling Optional Opacity
   ⋆ 10:00 Break

3. 10:20 Björn Köhnlein (OSU): How quality-sensitive metrical domains influence phonological processes in German

4. 10:50 Fae Hicks (Edinburgh): ‘Phonetic erosion’: metalanguage and causality

5. 11:20 Scott Nelson, (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction

6. 11:50 Lunch and Tutorial 1—Rim Dabbous, Kyle Gorman, Charles Reiss: Logical Phonology

7. 1:20 Invited Speaker: Sammy Andersson (Yale): Using Phonetics to Do Substance-Free Phonology: Case studies from Võro South Estonian
   ⋆ 2:10 Break

8. 2:30 William Idsardi (Maryland): SMPLish concepts for phonology

9. 3:00 Daniar Kasenov (NYU): Polish /v/: underspecified word-internally, specified word-externally  (on zoom at  https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/my/concordiacogsci )
   ⋆ 3:30 Break

10. 3:50 Invited Speaker: Magdalena Markowska (Stony Brook): Learning from small data: features, locality, and directionality (on zoom at  https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/my/concordiacogsci )

⋆ 6:30 Dinner at Aunt Dai (1448 St-Mathieu)

Saturday, May 10 in MB 5.265

⋆ 9:30 Coffee and carbs

1. 10:00 Invited Speaker: Anja Arnhold (Calgary): Why is investigating intonational meaning so difficult?

2. 10:50 Kyle Gorman (CUNY): A Logical Phonology of some “minor rules” of Polish
   ⋆ 11:20 Break

3. 11:40 Lee Bickmore (Albany): Ch-Insertion and Other Vowel Hiatus Resolution Strategies in Kiwoso Chaga

4. 12:10 Rim Dabbous (Concordia): Long distance phonology via transitive inference

5. 12:40 Lunch and Tutorial 2—Dakotah Lambert (Haverford): Tutorial on Multifaceted interactive analysis of languages and processes

6. 2:10 Jacob Burger (Delaware), Arild Hestvik (University of Delaware), Chao Han (Toronto), Tarleton Hill (Delaware), William Isardi (Maryland), Azia Knox (Delaware), Abdulaziz Alromihi (Delaware): Neural Investigation of Under- specification with Rotated Speech

7. 2:40 David Odden (Washington): A Phonological Solution to a Phonological Problem

8. 3:10 POSTER SESSION and Coffee (JUST 5-6 posters)

9. 3:50 Jeff Heinz (Stony Brook): Types of Order Preservation and their Implications for Phonology and Morphology

10. 4:20 Invited Speaker: Oriana Kilbourn Cerón (Concordia): Reasoning about phonological variability: problems and prospects
    ⋆ 5:10 Closing Ceremony
    
    Posters

    • Malek Azadegan (Concordia): Efficient Search and Transduction: A Finite State Approach to the SEARCH and CHANGE Model

    • ONLINE: Latifa Charaa and Nabila Louriz (Hassan II University of Casablanca): Positional Effects in L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese

    • ONLINE: Ranya Erramh and Nabila Louriz (Hassan II University of Casablanca): Anchoring of velars in early-onset L1 Moroccan Arabic dysphasic production: An Optimality-theoretic account of positional asymmetry

    • Maria Elizabeth Garza (Stony Brook): Long distance metathesis in Dominican Spanish: synchronic, unbounded, and regular

    • Sajib Ghosh (UVictoria): Quantificational Logic in Phonological Rules: Evidence from Extended Gemination in Bangla

    • Nicholas Hardie Lawrence and Samwel Labarre (Concordia) Quebec French High Vowels are Like Turkish Stops in Logical Phonology

    • Andrei Munteanu (McGill): Detecting Feeding and Bleeding in Rule Notation

Session Chairs: Heather Newell and Charles Reiss

Here is the call for papers. There will be more information later.

Call for papers

Thirteenth North American Phonology Conference—NAPhCxiii—[næ᷈ɸˈkxi̤̤ʔi̤̤ʔi̤̤]

The Concordia Center for Cognitive Science is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 25th year anniversary of the North American Phonology Conference: NAPhCxiii. The conference will be held from May 9 to May 10, 2025 at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Invited speakers:

• Sammy Andersson (Yale): Using Phonetics to Do Substance-Free Phonology: Case studies from Võro South Estonian

• Anja Arnhold (University of Alberta, Edmonton): Why is investigating intonational meaning so difficult?

• Oriana Kilbourn-Cerón (Concordia): Reasoning about phonological variability: problems and prospects

• Magdalena Markowska (Stony Brook): Learning from small data: features, locality, and directionality

Tutorials:

• Multifaceted interactive analysis of languages and processes: Dakotah Lambert (Haverford)

• Tutorial on Logical Phonology: Rim Dabbous (Concordia), Kyle Gorman (CUNY) & Charles Reiss (Concordia)

For accommodations, try https://www.chateauversaillesmontreal.com/ or https://www.senshotel.com/   (reserve for both at  1 888 933-8111)--they should give a corporate rate if you say it is for Concordia. You can try  https://saintlo.ca/auberges/montreal/ for cheap youth hostel dorms (but their private rooms are not cheap). Both are 3 minutes from the conference site. 

The conference will be held on Concordia's downtown SGW campus. There are a lot of food and beverage options nearby.

Optional Theme: Phono–Logical Reasoning

NAPhC seeks submissions that contribute to the understanding of the phonological component of the human language faculty. We particularly welcome papers on the relationship of formal reasoning to I-language phonology in (at least one of) the three following interrelated senses:

1. The logic1 of phonological computation and representation: Do rules/constraints make explicit use of quantificational logic and set theoretic notions? What is the logical structure of segments and other representational units?

2. The logic2 of phonological acquisition: What logical apparatus must be used by the Phonological Language Acquisition Device to discover the rules and representations that end up in long term memory? 

3. The logic3 of phonology-the-discipline: What kinds of reasoning do phonologists use to figure out the contents of logic1 and logic2

For example, one might argue that logic2 and logic3 make reference to meaning contrasts in the lexicon, say, by comparing minimal pairs, but this does not entail that logic1 makes reference to contrast, for example, by avoiding derivations that result in homophony, or treating non-contrastive features as inert. Of course, some scholars  have argued that logic1 does make reference to contrast, and such questions are open to discussion.

Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion.

There will be a poster session.

• Deadline for abstracts: Sunday, February 23 Wednesday, February 26 at 23:59  wherever you are located. Evaluation of abstracts should be complete by March 2. 

• Abstracts should be pdf documents of 2-5 pages;  they should be sent directly to cognitivescience@concordia.ca attached to an email containing the following information:

  • Subject line: NAPhC submission

  • Authors' names and affiliations

  • Authors' ranks (student, faculty, etc):

  • Only for poster consideration? YES or NO

This website is https://sites.google.com/view/naphcxiii/