The Fourth Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI4)
Friday/Saturday September 17-18, 2010

University of Delaware Perkins Student Center [map]
Alumni Lounge (Talks), Gallery (Poster Session & Lunch)


Registration is free. If you are not a presenter but wish to attend the workshop, please register.

This Workshop is financed by National Science Foundation Grants #BCS-0650385 (University of Delaware: Satoshi Tomioka, PI) and #BCS-0650415 (Indiana University, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, PI). Please visit the grant's website.


Friday Sep. 17




11:45-12:45 Lunch at 46 E. Delaware Ave

1:00-1:15 Welcome and Overview of the Project
1:15-2:15 "On Cyclic Prominence"
Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Indiana University)
2:15-3:15 "Focus in Interrogatives"
Hubert Truckenbrodt (Zas-Berlin)

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-4:10 "Focus Intervention in Declaratives"
Aviad Eilam (University of Pennsylvania)
4:10-5:10 "Prosody, Topicalization and Verb-Second: How They Interact in the History of English and French"
Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
5:10-5:40 Panel Discussion

6:30-8:30Workshop Reception at Alibaba (Middle Eastern), 175 E. Main Street, Newark


Saturday, Sep. 18
9:00-10:00 ”Generalized Contiguity and the Prosody of Adjacency"
Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00-11:00 "A Quantitative Study of the Wh Prosody/Scope Correlation in Fukuoka Japanese"
Jennier Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
11:00-11:30 Panel Discussion

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-12:30 Poster Session (at Perkins Student Center, Gallery)

12:30-1:30 Lunch (at Perkins Student Center, Gallery)

1:30-2:10 "Mandarin ne as Contrastive Topic"
Noah Constant (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
2:10-3:10 Phonetic Evidence for a Distinction between Focus and Discourse-New in English and its Implications for Grammatical Theory
Elisabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

3:10-3:25 Coffee Break

3:25-4:05 "Scope and Prosody in the Japanese Contrastive Topic Construction"
Christopher Davis (Univeristy of Massachusetts at Amherst)
4:05-5:05 "The Communicative Significance of Primary and Secondary Accents"
David Beaver (University of Texas at Austin)
5:05-5:35 Panel Discussion

Accepted Posters (Saturday, Sep. 18, 11:45-12:30 at Perkins Student Center, Gallery)
" Interrogative licensing with intonation: The case of French wh-in-situ"
Viviane Déprez, Kristen Syrett, Shigeto Kawahara, Natalie Blanc, Kristen Lew, and Yevgen Mustafayev (Rutgers University)

" The Accentual Properties of Negation in Bulgarian"
Boris Harizanov (University of California, Santa Cruz)

" Focus-sensitive Operator or Focus Inducer: Always and Only in Korean"
Yong-cheol Lee and Satoshi Nambu (University of Pennsylvania)

" Modifying Conversational Moves: The Case of Rising Declaratives"
Sophia Malamud (Brandeis University) and Tamina Stephenson (Yale University)

" Second Occurrence Focus in Japanese"
Satoshi Nambu and Yong-cheol Lee (University of Pennsylvania)

" Contrastive Topics: an extra-syntactic account"
Jacopo Torregrossa (University of Verona, Italy)

" Prosody as Empirical Evidence for the Communication and Representation of Discourse Structure"
Joseph Tyler (University of Michigan)

" The Domain of Stress and Prominence in Kupang Malay"
Regine Lai, Emily Tynan, Yugyeong Park and Niran Khumbangly(University of Delaware)