Several members of the SPOT team visited Tokyo to attend the 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology, which was jointly hosted by SPOT and NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics). The first session of the conference was dedicated to the SPOT project. Junko Ito and Armin Mester opened the session with their talk “Introduction: Why SPOT?” Jenny Bellik followed this up with a tutorial and demonstration of the SPOT webapp. The remainder of the session consisted of three case-studies demonstrating SPOT’s utility for analyses of prosody and for theory-building in different languages:
- lexical accent and phrasing in Japanese + Basque (Jenny Bellik)
- Match visibility settings in Italian phrasing (Nick Van Handel)
- clitic placement in Chamorro (Richard Bibbs)
Three SPOT posters were also presented that same day:
- “A Binarity binarity: Branch-counting vs. leaf-counting” by Jenny Bellik, Nick Kalivoda, and Nick Van Handel
- “Recursivity and the Definition of MATCH in Italian Syntax-Prosody” by Nick Van Handel
- “Prosodic Alignment of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro” by Richard Bibbs
Thank you to NINJAL for a very interesting and smoothly-run conference!
Slides and some posters can be viewed and downloaded here.
