Eva Zimmermann (linguistics, phonology)
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Eva Zimmermann
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Below is a list of all my past talk and poster presentations with links to the slides/handouts/posters.
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2022
  • Getting weaker across layers: The tonal phonology of Shona without stratal re-ranking, with Jochen Trommer, invited (online) talk at the University of Warsaw, linguistics colloquium, June 17th, 2020. (slides)
  • ​​(Un)Accentedness is not enough: The typology of lexical accent competition, with Ekaterina Medvedeva, Prithivi Pattanayak, and Razieh Shojaei, (online) talk at the Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 26th, 2022. (slides)

2021
  • Local cooperation between phonological elements instead of non-local grammar adjustment: An argument against Cophonology by Phase theory, (online) talk at the Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 28th, 2021. (slides)
  • Getting stronger or weaker at every stratum: a new approach to tonal morphophonology, with Jochen Trommer, (online) poster at the Manchester Phonology Meeting on May 26th, 2021. (video of the poster presentation, poster/mini slide set)

2020
  • Gradient Symbolic Representations and the typology of phonological exceptions, invited (online) talk, phonology colloquium, Goethe University Frankfurt, December 2nd, 2020 (slides).
  • Phonological exceptions result from gradient constraint violations: An argument for Gradient Symbolic Representations, invited (online) talk at the Atelier de Phonologie, Paris, October 7, 2020. (slides)
  • Gradient activity results in gradient markedness: A representational account of phonological exceptions, poster/alternate talk at virtual GLOW 43, Berlin, April 01-03, 2020 (long slides/short slides).
  • Gradient Symbolic Representations and the Typology of Phonological Exceptions, invited  talk at the MIT linguistics colloquium, MIT, February 28, 2020. (slides)
  • Stronger and thus more beautiful: The phonological strength of templates, OCP 17, Warsaw, February 5-7, 2020. (slides)
  • Reduplication as Weakening: Explaining the Overapplication of Reduction, special session on `Reduplication-Phonology Interactions' at the LSA 2019, New Orleans, January 3, 2020. (slides)

2019
  • Non-iterative Iterative Reduplication, workshop `Iterativity in Grammar', Leipzig, December 3, 2019. (slides)
  • Stronger and thus more beautiful: The phonological strength of templates (poster), AMP 2019,  Stony Brook, NY, October 12, 2019. (poster, appendix)
  • Feet can be different: Gradient activity and morphologically distinct templates, Phonetik&Phonologie, Düsseldorf, September 27, 2019. (slides)
  • Unexpected length: Prosodic vs. morphological structure, invited talk at the workshop `Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure', Tromsoe, September 19, 2019. (slides)
  • What is after all a geminate?, with Nina Topintzi, ICGL 14, Patras, September 06, 2019.
  • First come – first served: the serial interaction of feet and tone, mfm 27, Manchester, May 23-25, 2019. (slides)
  • Faded Copies: Reduplication as Sharing of Activity, GLOW 42, Oslo, May 08, 2019. (colorful slides, printer-friendly slides)
  • Gradience in Phonology: The Argument from Exceptions, invited talk at the Princeton Phonology Forum (PΩF 2019), April 06, 2019. (slides)
  • ​Copying as Weakening: Accounting for the Typology of Reduplication with Phonological Strength, invited talk at the 27th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, February 22, 2019. (colorful slides, printer-friendly slides)
  • Optimal feet vs. optimal tone placement, Micro-Workshop on Accent, Leipzig, January 29, 2019. (Slides)
  • Faded Copies: Reduplication as Sharing of Activity, OCP 16, Verona, January 17, 2019. (Slides)
  • Segmental Strength: A Typology of Unstable Segments, special session on `Subsegmental Representations' at the LSA 2019 Annual Meeting, New York City, January 06, 2019. (Slides)

2018
  • ​The Typology of Multiple Reduplication: An Argument for a Phonological Account of Reduplication (Slides), invited talk at the linguistics colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, November 09, 2018.
  • Tones in Zacatepec Chatino: The default vs. the underspecified (Slides), invited talk at the phonology lab, University of Washington, Seattle, November 09, 2018.
  • Gradient Symbolic Representations and the Typology of Ghost Segments: An Argument from Gradient Markedness (Slides), AMP 2018, San Diego, October 06, 2018.
  • First come, first serve: Serial Optimization of Tone and Foot Structure in Mayo (Slides), Workshop on the occasion of Jeroen Breteler's PhD defense, Amsterdam, May 31, 2018.
  • The gradience of ghosts: An account of unstable segments (Slides), mfm 26, Manchester, May 26, 2018.
  • Too much is too much... in the phonology! (Slides), mfm fringe meeting `Phonological solutions to morphological problems', Manchester, May 23, 2018.
  • Serial Computation of Accent in Mayo (Slides), Workshop on Cyclic Optimization, Leipzig, May 18, 2018.
  • The typology of multiple reduplication – an argument for a prosodic affixation account (Slides), invited talk at the Linguistics Colloquium, University of Victoria, April 12, 2018.
  • Reduplication without a base: An argument from the typology of multiple reduplication (Slides), talk at the Vancouver Phonology Group, SFU Vancouver, April 7, 2018.
  • The strength and weakness of tone: A new account to tonal exceptions and tone representations (Slides), with Jochen Trommer, invited talk at the Phorum, UC Berkeley, March 19, 2018. 
  • Exceptional non-triggers are weak: The case of Molinos Mixtec (Slides), OCP 15, London, January 13, 2018.

2017
  • Being (slightly) stronger: Lexical stress in Moses Columbian Salish (Slides), Workshop: Strength in Grammar, Leipzig, November 11, 2017. 
  • Gradient Symbolic Representations in the Output: A typology of lexical exceptions (Slides), NELS 48, Reykjavik, October 29, 2017.
  • Tutorial: Emptiness in Phonological Theory, with Sabrina Bendjaballah (Slides), invited talk at the meeting of the Phonological Theory Agora, Paris, October 6, 2017. 
  • Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec (Poster), AMP 2017, New York, September 16, 2017.
  • Strength as an alternative to cycles (Slides), Workshop on strata, Leipzig, July 20, 2017. 
  • One is ok but two is too much: Avoidance of multiple reduplication (Slides), invited talk at the workshop `Markedness: Perspectives in Morphology and Phonology', Frankfurt, July 14, 2017. 
  • Gradient symbols and gradient markedness: A case study from Mixtec tones (Slides), mfm 25, Manchester, May 17, 2017. 
  • Avoiding an intruder: Tone association in Zacatepec Chatino (Slides), WSCLA 22, Vancouver, April 22, 2017. 
  • Tones in Zacatepec Chatino: The default vs. the underspecified (Poster), GLOW 40, Leiden, March 16, 2017. 
  • The default vs. the underspecified: Floating tones in Zacatepec Chatino (Slides), OCP 14, Düsseldorf, February 22, 2017.

2016
  • Reduplication as fission: the argument from multiple reduplication (Poster, printer-friendly version with Appendix), NELS 47, UMass, Amherst, October 15, 2016. 
  • The Typology of Opacity and Containment Theory, with Jochen Trommer (Slides, Appendix, printer-friendly version), LAGB Annual Meeting, York, September 9, 2016. 
  • Multiple reduplication as non-segmental affixation: a case study from Lushootseed (Slides, printer-friendly version), Workshop Replicative processes in language, Leipzig, July 8, 2016. 
  • Exceptional and derived environments in Assamese vowel harmony, with Sören Worbs (Slides, printer-friendly version), mfm 24, Manchester, May 28, 2016. 
  • Tone features and underspecification: Morphological H-tones in Macuiltianguis Zapotec (Slides, printer-friendly version), CLS 52, Chicago, April 21, 2016. 
  • (Im)possible opacity patterns in containment theory, with Jochen Trommer, (slightly different versions of the same talk) 
    • PhonoLAM, Leiden, March 23, 2016. (Slides) 
    • Thomas Müntzer lecture at the IGRA Klausurtagung, Mühlhausen, April 3, 2016. (Slides, printer-friendly version) 
  • H-tone is not always H-tone A register tone account of Macuiltianguis Zapotec (Slides, printer-friendly version), OCP 13, Budapest, January 14, 2016.

​2015
  • Anticyclic Mutation (Poster, printer-friendly version with Appendix), with Jochen Trommer, NELS 46, Concordia University, Montréal, 17th October, 2015. 
  • Tonal suppletion as multi-modal featural affixation (Poster, printer-friendly version with Appendix), AMP 2015, Vancouver, 11th October, 2015. 
  • Copy affixes in Kiranti (Slides, printer-friendly version), Workshop on Replicative processes in grammar, Leipzig, 1st October 2015. 
  • Containment as the key to the 'heavy-vs-long' geminate debate: typology and implications, with Nina Topintzi (Slides, printer-friendly version), mfm 23, Manchester, 28th May 2015. 
  • Exocentric mutation as argument for Generalized Nonlinear Affixation, with Jochen Trommer (Slides, printer-friendly version), OCP 12, Barcelona, 28th January 2015. 

2014
  • Allomorphy between tone and segments: an autosegmental account (Poster, printer-friendly version), NELS 45, MIT, 1th November 2014. 
  • Allomorphy between tone and segments in Yucunany Mixtepec (Slides, printer-friendly version), 10. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Konstanz, 10th October 2014. 
  • The power of a single representation: Morphological tone and allomorphy(Handout), invited talk, Conference on Allomorphy: its Logic and Limitations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 8th July 2014. 
  • Deletion required, but not allowed: Piro consonant clusters, revisited (Handout), mfm 22, Manchester, 31th May 2014. 
  • The egoism of vowels: long epenthesis and mora projection (Slides) (slightly different version of the talk given at the CUNY conference on weight), OCP 11, Leiden, 23th January 2014. 
  • Long epenthetic vowels: another instance of opaque mora projection (Slides), CUNY phonology forum conference on weight in phonetics and phonology, New York, 17th January 2014. 

2013
  • The egoism of vowels: long epenthesis and opaque mora projection (Slides), invited talk, Phonologiekolloquium Universität Frankfurt, 25th November 2013. 
  • The egoism of vowels: Long epenthesis and mora projection (Poster), Workshop on Opacity in Grammar, Leipzig University, 3th October 2013. 
  • A phonological account of Length-Manipulation in the Morphology: The case of Aymara (Slides), mfm 21, Manchester, 25th April 2013. 
  • Moraic prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, with Jochen Trommer (Slides), Linguistics Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 22th April 2013. 
  • The linearization of morphological weight, with Jochen Trommer (Slides), Linguistics Colloquium, UC San Diego, 01th April 2013. 
  • How to linearize weight?, with Jochen Trommer (slightly different versions of the same talk) 
    • Phorum, UC Berkeley, 18th March 2013. (Slides)
    • Phlunch, UC Santa Cruz, 22th February 2013. (Slides)

2012
  • Templates as affixation of segment-sized units: the case of Southern Sierra Miwok (slightly different versions of the same talk) 
    • BLS 38, UC Berkeley, 12th February 2012. (Slides)
    • OCP 9, Berlin, 18th January 2012. (Slides)
    • CUNY conference on the segment, New York, 11th January 2012. (Slides)

2011
  • Cyclic Feature Deletion, with Daniela Henze (Slides), CECIL 1, Budapest, 30th August 2011. 
  • Tone in Arapaho (Slides), mfm 19, Manchester, 19th May 2011. 
  • Special Treatment for Stems and Affixes: Tone in Arapaho (Slides), WSCLA 16, UMass Amherst, 11th February 2011. 
  • First-come, First-serve: Marker-sensitive blocking, with Daniela Henze (Slides), WSCLA 16, UMass Amherst, 12th February 2011. 
  • Mora Maraudage in Piro (Slides), OCP 8, Marrakech, 21th January 2011. 
  • First-come, First-serve: Marker-sensitive Blocking and Ordering in Potawatomi, with Daniela Henze (Slides), 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order, University of Vienna, 15th January 2011. 
  • Neighbourhood Dispute: Affix Order Reversal in Kiranti (Handout), 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order, University of Vienna, 16th January 2011. 
  • Affix Copying in Kiranti (Handout), ConSOLE XIX, University of Groningen, 06th January 2011. 
  • Collateral Feature Discharge, with Daniela Henze (Slides), ConSOLE XIX, University of Groningen, 06th January 2011. 

2010
  • Generalized mora affixation, with Jochen Trommer (slightly different versions of the same talk):
    • 5th Workshop on Theoretical Morphology (WOTM 5), Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, 25th June 2010. ( Slides, Handout)
    • mfm 18, Manchester, 22th May 2010. (Slides)
    • WCCFL 28, USC Los Angeles, 21th February 2010. (Slides)
  • Portmanteaus as Generalized Templates, with Jochen Trommer (slightly modified versions of the same talk):
    • IMM 14, Budapest, 16th May 2010. (Handout) 
    • Cuny Conference on the Word in Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center New York, 15th January 2010. (Handout)

2009
  • Foot affixation in Upriver Halkomelem (Handout), ConSOLE XVIII, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 18th December 2009. 
  • Pertsova's (2007) model of learning inflection:
    • meeting of the Forschergruppe, Leipzig, 8th June 2009. ( Handout)
    • Forschergruppenworkshop, Leucorea Wittenberg, 01th September 2009. (Slides)
  • Non-concatenative allomorphy as an argument against paradigmatic Realize Morpheme (Slides, Handout), mfm 17, Manchester, 28th May 2009. 
  • Metathese und nicht-konkatenative Allomorphie (Slides), phonologische Generative Grammatik des Südens (pGGS), Leipzig, 23th May 2009. 

2008
  • A Correspondence-theoretic Account of Fixed Segmentism Reduplication (Slides, Handout), OCP 5, University of Toulouse-le Mirail, 25th January 2008. 
  • A Correspondence-theoretic Account of Fixed Segmentism Reduplication (Slides, Handout), ConSOLE XVI, Université Paris 7, 10th January 2008.
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