ITO AND MESTER IN CHINA AND JAPAN

In June, Junko Ito and Armin Mester traveled to China to deliver a paper (“Recursive Prosody and Match Theory”) at the 1st International Conference on Prosodic Studies (ICPS1), held at Tianjin Normal University in China. (Tianjin is the city where a huge explosion occurred later in the Summer.) Afterwards they traveled to Tokyo, where they were affiliated with NINJAL (National Institute of Japanese Linguistics) in Tachikawa. There they co-authored a paper on Japanese geminates with Haruo Kubozono (LRC visitor 1994-5), and did some work trying to determine what, if anything, the interaction of syntax-prosody Match constraints with various kinds of prosodic wellformedness constraints (such as anti-lapse or binarity) tells us about the precise form and content of the latter.