TREND: A Trilateral Weekend of Linguistics

May 9, 2009
Stanford University


TREND is an annual workshop encouraging collaboration between students and faculty in linguistics from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University.

Location: Terrace Room, on the 4th floor of Margaret Jacks Hall (building 460)
Campus Map (you can park for free in any spot marked 'A', 'C' or 'P' on the weekend)

Schedule (tentative)

9:30-10:00 Coffee, Welcome

Session 1 - Chair: Arto Anttila

10:00-10:30

Infrequency vs. ambiguity - which is more costly?

Meghan Sumner and Seung-Kyung Kim, Stanford

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10:30-11:00

Is speech talker-oriented or listener-oriented? - Evidence from phonological neighborhood effect in spontaneous speech production

Yao Yao, UC Berkeley

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11:00-11:30

Consonant-to-consonant gestural overlap and place assimilation in Korean

Paul Willis, UC Santa Cruz

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11:30-12:00

Vowel variation in Elliott County, Kentucky

Rebecca Greene, Stanford

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12:00-1:30

Lunch Break

Session 2 - Chair: TBA

1:30-2:00

Non-feature-driven movement and the sentential position of German weak pronouns

Judith Fiedler, UC Santa Cruz

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2:00-2:20

On what comes first in a verb-second language

Line Mikkelsen, UC Berkeley

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2:30-3:00

Mixed Gender Agreement and Word Order in Tigrinya

Laura Whitton, Stanford

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3:00-3:30

Break

Session 3 - Chair: TBA

3:30-4:00

Meaning Targets in Syntax and Morphology: A Study of Hupa Agreement

Amy Campbell, UC Berkeley

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4:00-4:30

Varieties of Distributivity: One by One vs. Each

Adrian Brasoveanu and Robert Henderson, UC Santa Cruz

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4:30- ?

Social!!