Prosody Interest Group Spring 2009 Calendar:

Besides getting together to read and discuss relevant papers on prosody (construed very broadly to include work in general prosodic and metrical theory, prosodic morphology and in the syntax/semantics-prosody interface), the participants of the Prosody Interest Group (aka PRIG) present their ongoing research in some area of prosody.

Spring 2009 PRIG meetings will take place on Thursdays 4:00pm-5:30pm in the Linguistics Common Room. For updates, see the Linguistics Calendar of Events:  http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/calendar/index.php.

Spring 2009

Th

4/2

  No meeting scheduled

Th

4/9

  Armin Mester presenting on "Gemination and the prosody of loanwords in Japanese".

Th

4/16

  Discussion of  Dehé and Samek-Lodovici (2009): On the prosody and syntax of DPs

  • Discussion coordinator: Boris Harizanov

Th

4/30

  Dave Teeple dissertation defense: "Biconditional prominence correlation" (Humanities One, Rm. #202).

Th

5/7

  Discussion of  Hyde (2007): Issues in Banawá Prosody

  • Discussion coordinator: Ryan Bennett

Th

5/21

  Discussion of  Stavropoulou (2002): Predicting Prosodic Phrasing

  • Discussion coordinator: Andrew Dowd

  Background reading: Stavropoulou slides

Past meetings:

Winter 2009

Th

1/15

  Andrew Dowd presenting on the prosody of Irish synthetic agreement (handout available here ).

Th

1/22

  Tomas Riad (University of Stockholm and Research Fellow, Swedish Academy) presenting on "The lexical
  stress system of Swedish" (abstract available here ).

Th

1/29

  Discussion of  Chung (2003): Chamorro Weak Pronouns

  • Discussion coordinator: Robert Henderson

Th

2/12

  Discussion of  Ishihara (2008): Japanese Downstep Revisited

  • Discussion coordinator: Nick LaCara

Th

2/19

  Discussion of  Elfner (2008): Weak pronoun postposing in Irish and Scots Gaelic

  • Discussion coordinator: Ryan Bennett

Th

3/12

  Vera Gribanov presenting on "The Syntax and Phonology of SubWords".

Fall 2008

Th

10/02

  Discussion of  Ladd (2008), chapter 6, on sentence stress

  • Discussion coordinator: Matt Tucker

Th

10/09

  Discussion of Kiparsky (2003) on Ancient Greek accent

  • Discussion coordinator: Junko Ito

  Background reading: Hyman (2006) on word-prosodic typology

Th

10/16

  Discussion of Kahnemuyipour (2003) on Persian stress

  • Discussion coordinator: Jeremy O'Brien

Th

10/23

  Part I: Presentation of work in progress on Irish weak pronouns by Jim McCloskey and Ryan Bennett (handout available here ).

  Background Reading:
  Kratzer and Selkirk (2007) "Phase theory and prosodic spellout: The case of verbs", The Linguistic Review 24 (2007), 93–135.
  Dalton and Ní Chasaide (2003) "Modelling Intonation in Three Irish Dialects" 15th ICPhS Barcelona.

Th

10/30

  Part II: Presentation of work in progress on Irish weak pronouns by Jim McCloskey and Ryan Bennett:

Th

11/06

  Presentation of work in progress on K'ichee' intonational phrases by Robert Henderson (handout available here ).

  Background reading: Selkirk (2003) on Intonational phrasing

Th

11/20

  Presentation (Junko and Armin): invited talk for the JK 18 conference "Rhythmic Categories and Interface Categories" (handout available
  here ).