Program
Conference Location
Ground floor
Undergraduate Science Building
University of Michigan
204 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The conference will be held on the ground floor of the Undergraduate Science Building (USB). The official address of the USB is: 204 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. You can also find the USB in the area shaded in pink in this campus map The USB is not always easy to find. So, make sure that you allow yourself enough time to get lost for 10 or 15 minutes while looking for the building. Once you have found the USB, there will be signs posted directing you to the specific room where ExpOT will meet.
Reception
The conference reception will be held at the Campus Inn, which is just a block or two away from the conference site. Directions to the Campus Inn will be included in the conference pack that you will receive when you register. Your $20 registration fee includes your attendance of the reception. The reception will start at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 18, and will take on the form of a buffet dinner. A cash bar will be available.
Miscellany
The abstracts for all talks can be downloaded here.
LCD Projectors will be available. Please let us know
if you need any additional equipment.
Friday, May 18
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Opening remarks Andries W. Coetzee (University of Michigan) |
| 9:30 - 10:10 |
Cross-modal methodologies
and OT phonological learning Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of Alberta) |
| 10:10 - 10:50 |
Learning phonotactic
constraints from continuous speech Frans Adriaans (Utrecht University) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Phonological Constraints in Speech Processing René Kager (Utrecht University) |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:40 |
Linking grammatical principles with experimental speech
production data: insights from harmonic grammar networks Matthew Goldrick and Robert Daland (Northwestern University) |
| 2:40 - 3:20 |
Acoustic
evidence for synchronically borrowed contrast and implications for a
correspondence theory of loanword phonology Jason Shaw (New York University) |
| 3:20 - 3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50 - 4:30 |
Gradient
gender assignment in Spanish: an OT-GLA account Mary Ann Walter (MIT) |
| 4:30 - 5:10 |
What
is behind NonFinality? Anya Lunden (College of William and Mary) |
Saturday, May 19
| 9:30 - 10:10 |
What we know about what we have never heard before:
evidence from perceptual illusions Iris Berent and Tracy Lennertz (Florida Atlantic University) |
| 10:10 - 10:50 |
Hidden knowledge of syllable gap wellformedness James Kirby and Alan Yu (University of Chicago) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Cumulative ill-formedness in typological and experimental
data Joe Pater (University of Massachusetts) |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Competition in perceptual grammar Elliott Moreton (University of North Carolina) |
| 2:40 - 3:20 |
The
emergence of ranking by cue Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) |
| 3:20 - 3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50 - 4:30 |
Asymmetries
in perception and production Jiwon Hwang, Ellen Broselow, Nancy Squires and Susana de Leon (Stony Brook University) |
| 4:30 - 5:10 |
*ND#, Not *ND: Evidence from
English Abby Kaplan |
Sunday, May 20
| 9:30 - 10:10 |
An experimental evaluation of comparative markedness Daniel A. Dinnsen, Judith A. Gierut & Ashley W. Farris (Indiana University) |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Learning lexical exceptions Andries W. Coetzee (University of Michigan) |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
Beat-sharing
in poetry: An experimental study Xinting Zhang (University of Michigan), San Duanmu (University of Michigan), Yuchau E. Hsiao (National Chengchi University), and Kay Sung (National Chengchi University) |