Friday 13 June

Session 1: Dialect descriptions

Chair: Michiel de Vaan

9:30     Jan Goossens (Leuven, Belgium): Mein Akzentsystem (ein Genker Dialekt) hinterfragt

10:00   Peter Gilles (Freiburg, Germany): The Franconian Tone Accents in Luxembourgish

10:30   Anna Peetz (Karlsruhe, Germany): Die beiden Tonakzente in der Mundart von Beuren/Hochwald

11:00   Coffee break

Chair: Jan Goossens

11:30   José Cajot (Hasselt, Belgium): Phonologisch bedingter Polytonieverlust. Eine tonlose Enklave südlich von Maastricht

12:00   Ronny Keulen (Leuven, Belgium): Eine vergleichende diachronische Untersuchung zum Tonverlust südwestlich der Stadt Maastricht.

12:30   Lunch break

Session 2: The phonetic and phonological analysis  

Chair: Vincent van Heuven

14:00   Georg Heike (Cologne, Germany): Experiments in modeling Franconian Tone Accents and some implications to speech to music conversion

14:30   Ben Hermans (Tilburg, Netherlands): An Interpretation of Rule A within the Limits of the Visibility Hypothesis

15:00   Coffee break

Chair: Carlos Gussenhoven

15:30   Jörg Peters (Nijmegen, Netherlands): Tone and Intonation in Cologne and Düren  
+ informant : Paul Meyer

16:15   Jürgen Erich Schmidt and Hermann J. Künzel (Marburg, Germany): Die
           Regelumkehrung. Phonetischer Vergleich der Tonakzente im Regel B–Gebiet mit
           dem mittelfränkischen Kerngebiet

Saturday 14 June

Session 3: Comparison with Scandinavian and Baltic tone accents

Chair: Anatoly Liberman

9:00     Gjert Kristoffersen (Bergen, Norway): Is 1 always less than 2 in Scandinavian tonal accents?

9:30     Tomas Riad (Stockholm, Sweden): Distribution of tonal accent in Scandinavian morphology

10:00   Harry Perridon (Amsterdam, Netherlands): Some remarks on the origin of the Scandinavian word accents

10:30   Coffee break

Chair: Frederik Kortlandt

11:00   Inger Ejskjaer (Copenhagen, Denmark): Stød parasitic plosive and distinctive tonal accents in the Danish dialects

11:30   Rick Derksen (Leiden, Netherlands): Metatony and the rise of the East Baltic tones

12:00   Lunch break.

Session 4: The genesis of tone accents

Chair: Alexander Lubotsky

14:00   Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen, Netherlands): On tonogenesis and change in Central Franconian tonal systems

14:30   Anatoly Liberman (Minneapolis, USA): Epenthetic consonants and the accentuation of words with old closed vowels in Low German and Dutch dialects

15:00   Coffee break

15:30   Elmar Ternes (Hamburg, Germany): Tone reversal in Franconian

16:00   Concluding remarks by the organizers

17:00   Canal boat tour . Boarding: Arsenaalplein

19:00   Farewell Dinner .