Fall 2009

December 2nd: Michael Becker gave a practice LSA talk on joint work with Anne-Michelle Tessier, “Trajectories of faithfulness in child-specific phonology”. [abstract]

November 3rd: Presley gave a presentation on her work on sonority in word-final clusters.

October 28th: Joe gave a presentation on learning and stress/epenthesis interactions in HS.

October 14th: John and Kathryn continued their discussion of Richness of the Base and iterative structure building.

October 7th: John and Kathryn reported on some efforts to reconcile Richness of the Base with restrictions to GEN and iterative structure building.

September 30th: John gave an introduction to Harmonic Serialism, and Joe presented some work on learning derivations as hidden structure.

September 23rd: We read Andries Coetzee’s paper An integrated grammatical/non-grammatical model of phonological variation in anticipation of his upcoming colloqium.