Program
All sessions met in the conference center at the Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California at Berkeley.
Get a copy of the program book - with all of the abstracts.
Wednesday, May 28
| 3:00 | Check in | |
| 5:00 | Reception | |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
Thursday, May 29
Morning session - Usage Factors
| 8:30 | Do grammatical factors impact sound change? | Joan Bybee |
| 9:10 | Explaining lexical frequency effects: a critique and an alternative account | Márton Sóskuthy |
| 9:30 | Lexical functional load predicts the direction of phoneme system change | Andrew Wedel & Scott Jackson |
| 9:50 | Break | |
| 10:10 | Typological and articulatory perspectives on context effects | Jeff Mielke |
| 10:50a | Hierarchical statistical inference and lexical diffusion of sound change. | Vsevolod Kapatsinski |
| 10:50b | Extreme high frequency, segment deletion and chunking: a study of emerging inflected pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese | Ricardo Napoleao de Souza |
| 11:10 | Informativity licenses word-final lention | Uriel Cohen Priva |
| 11:30 | General Discussion - led by Paul Kiparsky | |
| Noon | Lunch |
Afternoon session - Social Factors
| 1:30 | The social motivation of sound change: recent developments | William Labov |
| 2:10 | Changing Individuals, changing language? | Mary Kohn & Charlie Farrington |
| 2:30 | Quantifying age-related and phonetic change in a longitudinal study | Ulrich Reubold & Jonathan Harrington |
| 2:50 | Break | |
| 3:10 | 'Bring hither the fatted coo': Real-time change in Glaswegian over a century | Jane Stuart-Smith |
| 3:50 | Whose sound changes do we follow? | Molly Babel, Grant McGuire & Jamie Russell |
| 4:10 | Talk like a man: perceived masculinity | Meg Cychosz |
| 4:30 | General Discussion - led by Robin Dodsworth, special guest Rudy Mendoza-Denton | |
| 5:00 | Poster Session 1 | |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
Friday, May 30
Morning session - Phonetic Factors
| 8:30 | Sound change propagation: the relation between perception and production in individual language users. | Patrice Speeter Beddor and Andries W. Coetzee |
| 9:10 | Probabilistic Enhancement and Australian English /æ/ | Felicity Cox & Sallyanne Palethorpe |
| 9:30 | Non-nasal Nasals: Reinterpreting nasalisation in Shiwiar (Jivaroan) | Martin Kohlberger |
| 9:50 | Break | |
| 10:10 | Idiolectal phonology produces the pool of "phonetic" variation. | Alan Yu |
| 10:50 | Testing the listener-driven model of dissimilation | Mary Stevens & Jonathan Harrington |
| 11:10 | On the Coda Weakening of Rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese | Iiris Rennicke & Thaïs Cristófaro Silva |
| 11:30 | General Discussion - led by Aditi Lahiri, special guest John Houde | |
| Noon | Lunch |
Afternoon session - Typology
| 1:30 | Southeast Asian tonogenesis: how and why? | Jan-Olof Svantesson |
| 2:10 | The rise and fall of voiceless vowels across Finnic Varieties | Natalia Kuznetsova & Daria Sidorkevitch |
| 2:30 | Sound change in Australia: Current knowledge and research priorities | Luisa Micelli & Erich Round |
| 2:50 | Break | |
| 3:10 | Adoption, maintenance and loss of click contrasts | Bonny Sands |
| 3:50 | On a ‘crazy rule’ of Ancient Greek | Adèle Jatteau |
| 4:10 | Bantu Spirantization is a reflex of vowel spirantization | Matt Faytak & John Merrill |
| 4:30 | General Discussion - led by Larry Hyman | |
| 5:00 | Poster Session 2 | |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
Saturday, May 31
Morning session - Modeling
| 8:30 | Phonetic precursors and structural typology | Elliot Moreton |
| 9:10 | (Non-) Phonologization : Individual Variation in an Artificial Grammar Learning Task | Rebecca Morley |
| 9:30 | Learning biases in phonological typology | Klaas Seinhorst |
| 9:50 | Break | |
| 10:10 | Actuation without production bias | James Kirby & Morgan Sonderegger |
| 10:50 | Modelling sound change in relation to time-depth and geography: a case study on the Indo-European and Tupían language families. | Gerd Carling, Sandra Cronhamm, Niklas Johansson, Filip Larsson & Joost van de Weijer |
| 11:10 | A computer simulation of Franconian tonogenesis | Paul Boersma |
| 11:30 | General Discussion - led by Andrew Garrett | |
| Noon | Lunch |