Phonology Seminar Schedule

UCLA Department of Linguistics Winter 2007

The Phonology Seminar (Linguistics 261B) will meet Winter Quarter 2007 in Public Policy 2325. Meetings are on Tuesdays from 4 to 6. There are still some open slots; if you would like to give a talk, please contact the convener, Kie Zuraw.

Tuesday, January 9 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Sharon Peperkamp (University of Paris 8, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique)
Tuesday, January 16 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Andrew Nevins (Harvard University)
Tuesday, January 23 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Group discussion of “A faithfulness ranking projected from a perceptibility scale: the case of [+voice] in Japanese” by Shigeto Kawahara (2006, Language 82, pp. 536-574)
Tuesday, January 30 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Colin Wilson Learning rankings in the presence of noise
Tuesday, February 6 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Group discussion of “Low vowels and transparency in Kinande vowel harmony” by Bryan Gick, Douglas Pulleyblank, Fiona Campbell, and Ngessimo Mutaka (2006, Phonology 23, pp. 1-20)
Tuesday, February 13 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Colin Wilson New developments in the Luce-Choice Ranker
Tuesday, February 20 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	411—orientation to phonology for first-year grad. students
Wednesday, February 28 2:00-4:00 Public Policy 2319	Matthew Gordon (UCSB) Prosodic fusion and minimality in Kabardian Note special day, time, and room!!!!
Tuesday, March 6 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Bruce Hayes and Colin Wilson Learning phonotactics with Maximum Entropy
Tuesday, March 13 4:00-6:00 Public Policy 2325	Kie Zuraw Projecting new forms from old
Tuesday, March 20 4:00-6:00 Rolfe 3131	Ingvar Löfstedt Allomorphy as Optimization of Morpheme Salience Note special room!!