RUMMIT II at Rutgers

RUMMIT II, the meeting of phonologists from Rutgers, UMass, and MIT will be held at Rutgers on May 16, 2011, from 11:30am - 6pm(-ish).

Location

RUMMIT will meet in the Pane Room on the first floor of the Alexander Library on Rutgers' College Avenue campus. The final session will take place in Murray 144.

Directions to the Alexander Library can be found here.

Parking

We have reserved parking for RUMMIT. You can park here, which is right next to the library. Please contact Shigeto if you are planning to drive and still haven't received a special parking permit.

Schedule

Time	Event
11:30--11:40	Opening remarks
11:40--12:10	Aaron Braver (Rutgers): (Im)perceptible incomplete neutralization: Two experiments on flapping in American English
12:10--12:40	Suyeon Yun (MIT): String-based domains of duration preservation
12:40--01:50	Lunch (Head to the Rutgers Student Center)
01:50--02:20	Claire Moore-Cantwell (UMass): Epenthesis typology in Harmonic Serialism
02:20--02:50	Vandana Bajaj (Rutgers): Hindi bilingual joke wellformedness: A study of laryngeal contrast perceptibility
02:50--03:10	Break
03:10--03:40	Brian Smith (UMass): Paradigm gaps and Spell-Out in OT and HG
03:40--04:10	Coppe van Urk (MIT): On the distribution of clashes
04:10--04:40	==Break: we will move to Murray 144==
04:40--05:10	Kevin Mullin (UMass): The Necessity of Diacritics for Descriptive Adequacy
05:10--05:40	Peter Staroverov (Rutgers): Sonority and the acoustics of Russian word-final consonant clusters