Fridays, 11am – 12pm, Field Research Lab (AP&M 2452)

10/7 – Discussion of Maye, Weiss and Aslin (2008), “Statistical phonetic learning in infants: facilitation and feature generalization” (led by Bethany)
10/14 – Discussion of Albright & Hayes, “Learning and Learnability in Phonology” (led by Eric)
10/21 – Bozena’s presentation
10/28 – Rebecca’s presentation
11/4 – Ryan’s presentation
11/11 – VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY
11/18 – Mike’s presentation
11/25 – THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY¡
12/2 – Discussion of Heinz (2010), “Learning long-distance phonotactics” (led by Sharon)

The poll has spoken, and we will be meeting on Wednesdays at 1(-ish) this quarter. Our first meeting, where we will map out a plan for the quarter, is at 1pm in the ‘Fieldwork’ room in 1782 AP&M (a room in the annex building connected to ours on the north side). Sharon advises: “The room is cold, so dress warmly.”

April 6 – Sharon’s CLS practice talk
April 13 – Eric’s CLS practice talk
April 20 – Daniel and Cindy on glides
April 27 – Michal Temkins-Martinez on variation in Hebrew
May 4 – Lucien
May 11 – Bozena’s ASA practice poster and/or reading discussion
May 18 – Cindy’s ASA practice talk
May 25 – HOLIDAY
June 1 – open for discussion

We’ll be meeting on Mondays at 9am this quarter, in AP&M 2452. Schedule to be posted soon.

Here’s the schedule we came up with in our meeting yesterday.

January 19 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, no SaD-PhIG
January 26 — Cindy’s practice job talk
February 2 — Bożena’s practice BLS talk
February 9 — [ Something relevant to a job candidate? ]
February 16 — President’s Day Holiday, no SaD-PhIG
February 23 — [ Something relevant to a job candidate? ]
March 2 — Noah’s practice P&P workshop poster
March 9 — discussion of phonotactics: why restrictions?

Here’s my handout from yesterday’s discussion, with corrections made to the tableaux. Here’s Colin Wilson’s handout on “counterfeeding from the past”, and here’s a draft of a paper that he wrote up on it.

As I suggested in a message to the mailing list, I say we hit the ground running with a plan for our first week. To that end, I am offering to give an OT-CC tutorial, and in preparation we can read any one of McCarthy’s three most recent articles. Click here to vote for your choice before Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 9pm — I won’t vote myself, but I reserve the right to break any tie that may arise. The articles are:

1. Harmony in Harmonic Serialism (ROA-1009)
2. The gradual path to cluster simplification (Phonology 25.2)
3. The serial interaction of stress and syncope (NLLT 26.3)

As usual, we’ll begin our meeting with a short round of butt-kicking and suggestions for the remainder of the quarter. Keep in mind that the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday falls on what would have otherwise been our second meeting (Jan. 19), so I suggest that our plan for our actual second meeting on Jan. 26 take advantage of the 2-week hiatus. A longer paper? A couple book chapters? Think about it.

Winter quarter 2009 is almost upon us, and with that, a new round of SaD-PhIG meetings! We’ll be meeting at noon on Mondays in AP&M 4218. Our first meeting will take place on Monday, January 12, at which point we’ll set our schedule for the quarter. See you there/then.