The Ninth Old World Conference in Phonology

It will follow in the line of previous OCP conferences which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh, Nice and Marrakech.

The main conference will focus on the interfaces between phonology and other areas of linguistics (phonetics, morphology, semantics, pragmatics), but abstracts can be submitted on any topic in phonology.  There is also a one-day thematic pre-conference workshop on ‘The Phonology-Syntax Interface’ organized by the SynPhonI project.

Keynote speakers for the workshop and main conference:

• Caroline Féry (Uni Frankfurt)
• Edward Flemming (MIT)
• Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris)
• Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)

Programme

Wednesday, January 18
Workshop on the Phonology-Syntax Interface

9:00-9:30 Registration OCP9

9:30-10:30
Caroline Féry (U Frankfurt, invited)
Intonation at the phonology-syntax interface in 'phrase languages'

10:30-11:05
Roberta D'Alessandro & Tobias Scheer (U Leiden & U Nice)
Phase-based inhibition of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico: A case study

11:05-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:05
Sabine Zerbian & Frank Kügler (U Potsdam)
Sequences of high tones across word boundaries: downstep and phrasing in Tswana

12:05-12:40
Franziska Scholz & Yiya Chen (U Leiden)
Downstep of rising-falling sandhi tones in Wenzhou Chinese

12:40-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:05
Annie Rialland & Martial Embanga Aborobongui (LPP, Paris 3)
The intonational system and the prosodic hierarchy of Embosi (Bantu C25, Congo-Brazzaville)

15:05-15:40
Fabian Schubö (U Frankfurt)
German Intonation Phrases and the Phonology-Syntax Interface

15:40-16:15
Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, Caterina Petrone & Laura Downing (ZAS; Aix-en-Provence)
Interaction of Tone and Intonation in Bàsàa questions

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:20
Sara Myrberg (U Frankfurt)
Equal sisterhood in prosodic phrasing

17:20-17:55
Emily Elfner (McGill University)
Cumulative constraint interaction in syntax-prosody mapping: Evidence from Conamara Irish

Thursday, January 19
OCP9 Main Session

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:00
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (U Manchester, invited)
On the properties of phonological processes with small morphological domains

10:00-10:30
Eva Zimmermann (U Leipzig)
Templates as affixation of segment-sized units: the case of Southern Sierra Miwok

10:30-11:00
Alexander Podobryaev (MIT)
Rhyming in echo-reduplication

11:00-11:30 Coffee break/Registration

11:30-12:00
Marijn van ‘t Veer (Leiden University Center for Linguistics)
Conflicting evidence in acquisition: a case study on the acquisition of French R

12:00-12:30
Claire Moore-Cantwell (U Massachusetts Amherst)
Over- and Under- generalization in morphological learning

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30
Renate Raffelsiefen & Hristo Velkov (IDS, Mannheim)
The phonological status of voiced palatals and labiodentals in German

14:30-15:00
Zsuzsanna Bárkányi & Katalin Mády (HAS Research Institute for Linguistics)
The perception of voicing in fricatives

15:00-16:30
Poster Session 1 / Coffee break

16:30-17:00
Sławomir Zdziebko (John Paul II Catholic U, Lublin)
A unified approach to the phonotactics of word edges

17:00-17:30
Jonah Katz (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod)
Spanish consonant clusters and the phonology of timing

17:30-18:00
Patrick Honeybone (U Edinburgh)
The strangeness of ‘Verhauchung’: coda lenition-inhibition and the effect of phonological structure on the innovation of phonological change

Friday, January 20
OCP9 Main Session

9:00-10:00
Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS - EHESS - CNRS), invited))
Mechanisms of phonological learning in adults

10:00-10:30
Dinah Baer-Henney & Ruben van de Vijver (U Potsdam)
What makes a difference? Substance, Locality and Amount of Exposure in the Acquisition of Morphophonemic Alternations

10:30-11:00
Amy Lacross (U Potsdam)
Native language biases of Khalkha Mongolian speakers in the acquisition of non-adjacent phonological dependencies

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00
Yulia Lavitskaya & Bariş Kabak (U Konstanz & U Würzburg)
Seeking for the default in a lexical stress system

12:00-12:30
Paula Orzechowska, Ulrike Domahs, Johannes Knaus & Richard Wiese
(U Marburg)
Processing (un-)predictable word stress in Polish: an ERP study

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30
Rachel Walker & Michael Proctor (U of Southern California)
The structure of English syllables with postvocalic /ɹ /: An articulatory view

14:30-15:00
Bálint Feyér, Péter Rácz, Márton Sóskuthy & Daniel Szeredi (Eötvös Loránd U,
U Freiburg, U Edinburgh, New York U)
A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian

15:00-16:30
Poster Session 2 / Coffee break

16:30-17:00
Kathrin Linke (Leiden U)
(Bi)Directionality in Substitution Patterns in Aphasic Language

17:00-17:30
Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut / Leiden U)
Being frequent as a way of growing old

from 19:00 Conference dinner

Saturday, January 21
OCP9 Main Session

10:00-10:30
Maria Giavazzi (Ecole Normale Superieure (DEC-NPI))
Assibilation in Standard Finnish: a case of stress-conditioned contrast neutralization

10:30-11:00
Marzena Zygis & Jana Brunner (ZAS, U Potsdam)
Why do glottal stops and low vowels like each other?

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00
Jesús Jiménez & Ricardo Herrero (U València, U Catòlica de València)
Valencian Vowel Harmony at the Interface

12:00-12:30
Peter Jurgec (Meertens Institute)
Two types of parasitic assimilation

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30
Björn Köhnlein (Meertens Institute / Leiden U)
Against predictable exceptions: name morphology in Dutch

14:30-15:00
Tal Linzen, Sofya Kasyanenko & Maria Gouskova (New York U)
Lexical and phonological variation in Russian prepositions

15:00-15:30
Christopher Spahr (U Toronto)
Phonetics-phonology interplay in moraic theory: evidence from Finnish dialectal gemination

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00
Edward Flemming (MIT, invited))
Violations are ranked, not constraints: A revised model of constraint interaction in phonetics and phonology

Poster session 1, Thursday, 19 January 2012

• Catharine Carfoot
  Using dispersion theory to model and explain the short front vowel shift in New Zealand English 
• Clàudia Pons-Moll & Francesc Torres-Tamarit
  How loanword phonology can provide evidence of the transition from positional faithfulness to contextual markedness
• Daniel Szeredi
  Phonetically unnatural alternation as a result of regular sound change the case of rounding harmony in Hungarian 
• Kalomoira Nikolou, Anthi Revithiadou & Despina Papadopoulou
  Stress in morphology-dependent systems when morphology is absent: A case study from L2 Greek 
• Grzegorz Michalski
  Some like it twice: cycles, yers, velars, and the Polish –ek 
• Hidetoshi Shiraishi & Bert Botma
  Vocalic asymmetries in Nivkh roots 
• Jan-Willem Van Leussen, Klara Weiand & Paola Escudero
  Serial versus parallel modelling of L2 perceptual and lexical development 
• Johannes Knaus, Richard Wiese & Ulrike Domahs
  Secondary word stress in German – Experimental evidence from EEG studies and its theoretical implications 
• Jonathan Anderson
  Rhythmic Patterns of Prominence in Akan

Poster session 2, Friday, 20 January 2012

• Francesc Torres-Tamarit
  Compensatory Lengthening and Opaque Gemination in Harmonic Serialism
• Man-Ni Chu
  Vowel quality affects the identification of TSM codas 
• Maria Giavazzi and Hyesun Cho
  The role of durational cues in the perception of voicing in strident fricatives 
• Markus Alexander Pöchtrager
  What’s in a cluster?
• Mohamed Lahrouchi
  Glide - high vowel alternations at the interface of syntax and phonology 
• Sylvia Blaho
  Neutral vowels in Standard vs. Slovakian Hungarian: acoustics and morphophonology 
• Titia Benders
  Infants acquire single-feature representations by holistic learning: Evidence from Dutch infants' vowel perception 
• Vassiliki Apostolouda, Despina Papadopoulou and Anthi Revithiadou
  Phonological factors outrank frequency effects: Evidence from Greek stress