April 5th, 2006

Prosodic Phrasing

Programme

 

Organisers: Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UAB, Barcelona) and Sónia Frota (University of Lisbon)

Invited speaker: ELISABETH SELKIRK (UMASS, Amherst)

ROOMS 08-018, GROUND FLOOR

 

8:30-9:00 Registration

 

9:00-10:00 Invited speaker:

‘Minimalist spellout of prosodic major phrases’

Elisabet Selkirk

 

10:00-10:40

‘Major Phrase as Spell-Out Domain: Evidence from Japanese Scrambling and NPI’

Shinichiro Ishihara, University of Potsdam

 

10:40-11:20

‘Competing syntactic and prosodic constraints in Hebrew prosodic phrasing’

Amit Shaked, Graduate Center, CUNY

 

11:20-11:50 Coffee Break

 

11:50-12:30

‘Prosodic phrasing and logical scope in English’

Scott Jackson, University of Arizona, and the University of Maryland – College

 

12:30-13:10

‘Binarity at the Left Edge of Intonational Phrases’

Gorka Elordieta, University of the Basque Country/HiTT

 

13:10-13:50

‘Pitch accent distribution and prosodic phrasing in Egyptian Arabic’

Sam Hellmuth, SOAS 

 

13:50-15:00 Lunch

 

15:00-15:40

‘The effect of segmental constraints on prosodic phrasing’

Marie-Hélène Côté, Université d'Ottawa

 

15:40-16:20 ‘Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status:evidence from synthetic speech and human speech’

Aoju Chen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

 

16:20-17:00 ‘The Influence of Prosodic Phrasing on Speech Rhythm’

Andries W. Coetzee and Daan Wissing, University of Michigan and North-West University, South Africa

 

17:00-17:30 Coffee Break

 

17:30-18:30 Invited speaker of the  Workshop on adjuncts/modifiers (Juan Uriagereka - University of Maryland) & General discussion of the Workshop on phonological opacity

 

Alternates: 

‘Issues in Phrasing in Northern Sotho (Bantu)’

Sabine Zerbian, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft 

 

‘Effects of phonological phrasing on syntactic structure’

Nancy C. Kula, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) / SOAS

 

Write to cg.phrasing@uab.es if you have any queries about the workshop.