November 30

Morning session, 9.00-12.30

9.00-10.30. Introductory word by Augustin de Benoit (ERC funding agency). Introduction to the ThoT project (Valentin Vydrin). Definition of toneme. Criteria for the tonemic status: marked and zero tones; status of contour tones; status of tonal melodies.

Chair: Rosenne Guérois

Keith Snider (Vancouver, British Columbia). Is toneme different from underlying tone?

Lev Michael (Berkeley). Zero tone.

Keith Snider (Vancouver, British Columbia). Active tones (tonemes) vs. zero tone

10.30-11.00 Coffee break (salon Borel)

11.00-12.30. Toneme in tonal systems of different types. (Non-automatic) downstep and its tonemic status.

Chair: Natalia Kuznetsova

Larry Hyman (Berkeley). On mid tones.

Lev Michael (Berkeley). The HLL toneme in Iquito

Florian Lionnet (Princeton). Tonemic status of non-automatic downstep

Keith Snider (Vancouver, British Columbia). Tone pattern analysis

12.30-14.00 Lunch (salon Borel)

Evening session, 14.00-17.30

14.00-15.30. Tonal domain (or tonal span?) and its limits.

Chair:Nicholas Rolle

Larry Hyman (Berkeley). Kukuya tonal melodies, domains and spans.

Jefferey Heath (Ann Arbor). The typology of word- and phrase-level tonal ablaut (Dogon, Bangime, Bozo).

15.30-16.00. Coffee break (salon Borel)

16.00-17.30. Toneless syllables.

Chair: Jefferey Heath

Larry Hyman (Berkeley). Notes on “toneless” syllables.

Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen). Limburgish tone grammars

Neige Rochant (LLACAN – Paris 3). Toneless syllables in Pukur.

19.00 Conference dinner. Restaurant Polidor, 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince (6th arrondissement).

December 1

Morning session, 9.00-12.30

9.00-10.30. Accent, stress, culminativity, obligatoriness. How to define “accent”? And do we need it at all?

Chair: Maria Konoshenko

Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen). Goldsmith’s accent – what it is good for?

Natalia Kuznetsova (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan). Is the notion of accent useful for the classification of tonal languages?

10.30-11.00 Coffee break (caféteria)

11.00-12.30. Tonal density. Functional load of tone. Grammatical tones. Syllables and morae.

Chair: Yvonne Treis

Natalia Kuznetsova (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan). Terminological complexities in the notion of mora.

Nicholas Rolle (Berlin). The functional load of tone (FLT): High vs. low FLT languages. Part 1, Part 2

Maria Konoshenko (Helsinki). On grammatical tone.

Keith Snider (Vancouver, British Columbia). Floating tone noun class concord marking in Made (Nigeria)

12.30-14.00 Lunch (salon Borel)

Evening session, 14.00-17.30

14.00-15.30. Classification of tonal systems (does it make sense?).

Chair: James Kirby

Maria Konoshenko (Helsinki). On tonal typology.

15.30-16.00. Coffee break (salon Borel)

16.00-17.30. The inventory of tonal languages of the world. Choice of the languages for the sample. Unified tonal notation: diacritic marks, letters, numeric indexes….

Chair: Mark van de Velde

Dmitry Gerasimov (Paris, ThoT). Choice of the languages for the sample

Keith Snider (Vancouver, British Columbia). Unified tonal notation

Ana Lívia Agostinho (Santa Catarina, Brasil). Tone in creole languages

Larry Hyman (Berkeley). More on mid tone and tone heights in general