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8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Stefano Coretta (The University of Edinburgh)
Today's coarticulation is tomorrow's sound change: Insights from dynamic articulatory data – on-line
10:00 - 10:30 Joachim Kokkelmans (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
The origin and motivation(s) of Alpine preconsonantal s-retraction – on-site. Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 Natalia Kuznetsova (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano / Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, St. Petersburg)
Role of laryngeal features in the development of prosodically-induced ternary quantity – on-line. Abstract
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Karolina Bros (University of Warsaw)
Is duration a causal factor of lenition? Evidence from Spanish – on-site. Abstract
12:00 - 12:30 Benjamin Macaulay (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Why do tones shift? – on-site. Abstract
12:30 - 13:00 Man-Ni Chu, Carlos Gussenhoven and Roeland van Hout (Fu Jen Univesity & Radboud Nijmegen University)
Perception-induced sound change and the identification of plosives in the coda: a cross-linguistic study – on-line. Abstract
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Stefon Flego (Indiana University Bloomington)
The Role of Information theoretic factors in the emergence of stem vowel mutation – on-line. Abstract
15:00 - 15:30 Nancy Hall (California State University, Long Beach)
Testing the hypercorrection theory of dissimilation – on-line. Abstract
15:30 - 16:00 Darya Kavitskaya and Adam Mccollum (University of California, Berkeley & Rutgers University)
More than phonologization: The emergence and decay of vowel harmony in Turkic – on-line. Abstract
16:00 - 16:30 Sean Panick and Nancy Hall (California State University, Long Beach)
The evolution of nasal spreading in Hoocak – on-line. Abstract
16:30 - 18:00 Poster session (2 min. video presentations + on-site posters)
Ryan Chon and Kate Lindsey (Boston University) — Coronal stops in Kawam: sound change and phonetic variation – on-line. Abstract
Andrea Harrison (The Arctic University of Norway) — A Historical Exploration of Velar Consonants in isiXhosa – on-site. Abstract
Zoltán G. Kiss and Zsuzsanna Bárkányi (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & The Open University) — Trading relations between the phonetic cues of laryngeal contrast and the effect of lexical factors in contrast preservation: Production and perception evidence from an ongoing sound change in Hungarian – on-line. Abstract
Martin Kohlberger (University of Saskatchewan) — Catching sound change in progress: semi-phonemic palatalisation in Shiwiar – on-line. Abstract
Elena Markus and Natalia Kuznetsova (University of Tartu & Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore/Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS) — “Frozen” sound change in a vanishing language: challenges for description, codification, and typology – on-line. Abstract
Connor McCabe (Trinity College Dublin) — Shifting the blame: an instrumental re-evaluation of stress-shift in Munster Irish – on-line. Abstract
Madeleine Rees, Brechtje Post and Matt Davis (University of Cambridge) — Research Plan: Auditory feedback perturbation as a window into bilingual interactions between speech perception and production – on-site. Abstract
Cesko Voeten (Fryske Akademy/Utrecht University) — From compensation to adoption: the medium-term dynamics of sound change — on-line. Abstract
Andre Zampaulo (California State University, Fullerton) — The role of probability, entropy, and surprisal in the historical emergence of Portuguese nasal diphthong -ão – on-line. Abstract
Fabian Zuk (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III) — When Vowel Reduction is Fortition: Constraints on weakness in early Romance — on-line. Abstract
18:00 - 19:00 Keynote: Juliette Blevins (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Linguistically Motivated Sound Change – on-line. Abstract
19:00 - 19:15 Closing remarks
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