March 14, 2013

MOT Workshop March 15-17

The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) phonology workshop is taking place at the University of Ottawa this weekend (March 15-17).

Speakers from U of T include:

Radu Craioveanu & Ross Godfrey: On the status of intervening and target         segments in Harari long distance palatalization
Alexei Kochetov, Tomohiro Yokoyama & Myles Leitch (Tyndale U): Kirundi       palatal glide strengthening: An acoustic study
Elan Dresher: Contrastive vowel features in West Germanic and Old English
Yu-Leng Lin: An implicational universal in artificial grammar
Marisa Brook: Effects of sonority and homorganicity on perception of               biconsonantal onset clusters by speakers of English and Japanese
Christopher Spahr: The role of the Contrastive Hierarchy in positional             neutralization
Radu Craioveanu: A contrastive typology of aspirated fricatives
Ross Krekoski: Features and the synchronic and diachronic behaviour of tonal   systems



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