Strength in Grammar

November 10-11, 2017
Leipzig University

[Welcome] [Call for Papers] [Program] [Practical Information] [Project: Featural Affixes]

A pdf version of the program can be downloaded here.


Thursday, November 09
19:00 Get-together at Shady
Friday, November 10
Room: H2 0.10, Beethovenstr. 15
8:45 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 10:00 Invited speaker: Paul Smolensky (Microsoft Research AI/Johns Hopkins University)
joint work with Matt Goldrick (Northwestern University)
Gradient Symbolic Representations in Grammar: The case of French Liaison
10:00 - 10:30 Noam Faust (Université Paris 8/CNRS SFL)
How much for that vowel ?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Vassilios Spyropoulos¹, Giorgos Markopoulos², and Anthi Revithiadou² (¹National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; ²Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Root strength as (under)specification: Evidence from root allomorphy in Greek
[SLIDES]
11:30 - 12:00 Hannah Sande (Georgetown University)
Encoding strength as a unified explanation of two Guébie (Kru) vowel alternations
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Xiaoliang Luo and Guillaume Enguehard (University of Orléans, LLL)
Representing Strength without Licensing
14:30 - 15:00 Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (UCL - London)
Not all Strength is Length: Positional-strength is Universal and BRANCHINGNESS-strength is phonotactic-specific
15:00 - 15:30 Jude Nformi and Sören Worbs (Leipzig University)
Gradient tones obviate floating features in Oku tone sandhi
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Invited speaker: Caitlin Smith (University of Southern California)
Deriving Apparent Exceptionality from Contrastive Gestural Strength
19:30 Conference dinner at the restaurant Chinas Welt
Saturday, November 11
Room: H2 0.10, Beethovenstr. 15
9:15 - 10:00 Invited speaker: Alexandre Vaxman (University of Connecticut)
Integrating accentual generalizations and morpheme-specific exceptions: the role of diacritic weight
10:00 - 10:30 Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig University)
Being (slightly) stronger: Lexical stress in Moses Columbian Salish
[SLIDES]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Yuriy Kushnir (Leipzig University)
Accent Strength in Lithuanian
11:30 - 12:00 Eric Rosen (University of British Columbia)
Predicting semi-regular Japanese accent through gradient feature strengths
[SLIDES]
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Florian Lionnet (Princeton University)
Subfeatural representations in phonology: Encoding coarticulatory strength
14:30 - 15:00 Renate Raffelsiefen (IDS Mannheim)
Positional faithfulness in stem-final position in German
15:00 - 15:30 Jochen Trommer (Leipzig University)
Scalar Cumulativity in German Umlaut
[SLIDES]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Invited speaker: Anthi Revithiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Sources of strength in lexical accent systems
Sunday, November 12
10:00-11:30
13:00-14:30
15:00-16:30		 Tutorial on gradient representations by Paul Smolensky
(organized by the graduate program IGRA)