'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 |