SUNDAY
Nov. 3

8:30 - 9:00

Coffee / Registration

9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Session
Chair: Bruce Tesar

Eric BAKOVIĆ
University of California San Diego

Conflict and cooperation, or: how I learned to stop arguing and love interaction

Generative phonological analysis relies on interactions (ordering, ranking) between grammatical statements (rules, constraints). These interactions primarily serve to simplify rules or constraints by reducing redundancy across them, a result argued to lead to greater insight into the nature of phonology. Some simplifications are only achievable with rule ordering, while others require constraint ranking. Drawing on collaborative work with Lev Blumenfeld, this talk first maps out the formal typological landscape of process interactions with ordered rules. We then venture into new territory, beginning to explore the landscape of process interactions with ranked constraints. At the heart of both of these landscape explorations lies a fundamental question: how do different theoretical approaches illuminate distinct aspects of phonological patterns? By comparing the different simplification strategies available with rule ordering and constraint ranking, we gain insight into the unique analytical power of each framework. This talk thus advocates for a nuanced view of phonological theory — one that recognizes formal models not as absolute truths, but as sophisticated tools for uncovering the underlying principles of phonology.

10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:45

Poster Session 3 

ABE - 4th Floor

11:45 - 12:45

Lunch

12:45 - 14:15

Session 5
Chair: Sara Finley

• 12:45 - 13:15
  Jennifer KUO
  Cornell University
  The interaction of phonotactics and frequency-matching in alternation learning (abstract)
  
  

• 13:15 - 13:45
  Bingzi YU¹, Shuang ZHENG², Youngah DO²
  ¹ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ² The University of Hong Kong
  Learners’ generalization of alternation patterns from ambiguous data (abstract)
  
  

• 13:45 - 14:15
  Marisabel CABRERA
  University of California, Los Angeles
  One-shot vs. competitions phonotactics in modeling constraint cumulativity (abstract)

 14:15 - 14:30

Closing Remarks

 14:30 - 15:30

Business Meeting