'Current aspects of Preference Theory. A symposium on the occasion of Theo Vennemann's 80th birthday'
Geburtstagssymposium
09.12.2017 10:00 Uhr – 18:00 Uhr
Current aspects of Preference Theory
A symposium on the occasion of Theo Vennemann's 80th birthday
Saturday, December 9th 2017
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Amalienstr. 52, Raum K 001
Program
| 10:00 | Welcome |
| 10:10 | Guido Seiler Is language change language improvement? |
| 10:45 | Dietmar Zaefferer Survival of the most preferred. A pilot study on the creation and selection of neologisms |
| 11:20 | coffee break |
| 11:50 | Stephen Laker & Robert Mailhammer Allgemeine Prinzipien des Lautwandels und die Präferenzgesetze |
| 12:25 | Phil Hoole Towards phonetic explanations for preferred sound patterns |
| 13:00 | lunch break |
| 15:00 | Manfred Krifka Vowel Fronting in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu) |
| 15:35 | Antoniy Dimitrov Präferenztheorie und Strategien zur Optimierung subpräferabler Laute und Lautverbindungen |
| 16:10 | coffee break |
| 16:40 | Laura Catharine Smith Moving from syllables to feet in the prosodic hierarchy: how foot-based templates reflect prosodic preferences |
| 17:15 | Patricia Noel Preference theory and syntactic order |
| 17:50 | Closing remarks |
| 18:00 | End |