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Jonathan Howell (Cornell University) Session 18Second occurrence focus & the acoustics of prominencePartee 1991 challenged the significance of the observation that certain adverbs (e.g. only) reliably ‘associate’ with phonologicallyprominent words to truth-conditional effect. She noted second occurrence focus appears to lack a phonological realization, e.g. (1).Several recent studies have suggested that the focus is realized by other cues including duration and intensity.(1) a. Johnson only PEDDLES pedals lately.b. Even THOMPSON only peddles pedals lately.I report on a small production study showing that, contra many assumptions, a simple duration difference is not a straightforwardindication of semantic focus. I address spectral cues and perception.Yuchau E. Hsiao (National Chengchi University) Session 31The rhythmic structure of Taiwan folk verseA topic that has recently attracted much attention is the grammar of metrics. I discuss the rhythm of Taiwan folk verse, based on acorpus of 2,648 lines. Unlike the classical verses, where every syllable receives a beat, the folk verses allow two syllables to share abeat and allow grammatical words to contrast rhythmically. Some of the folk verse lines may have alternative readings--one derivedby one-to-one mapping, while the other by beat sharing. I posit a set of constraints to govern the beat assignments under OT andexplore a general theory of meter.Sarah Hulsey (Masachusetts Institute of Technology) Session 56Distributed modal readings in gapping sentencesThere is a conjunction/disjunction asymmetry in gapping sentences containing a modal. Conjunction always takes narrow scoperelative to the modal; disjunction may take either narrow- or wide-scope. I adopt a Hamblin semantics for disjunction: or is not aBoolean operator, but introduces a set of alternatives; the modal can distribute pointwise over the Alt-set, giving the distributed modalreading. In contrast, I analyze conjunction as a traditional Boolean operation (defined for sets). This analysis makes predictions forthe distribution of various modals in negated gapping sentences.Hyekyung Hwang (University of Hawaii, Manoa) Session 54Amy J. Schafer (University of Hawaii, Manoa)Length effects in the resolution of the dative NP ambiguity in KoreanPrevious reports on whether implicit prosody influences syntactic disambiguation in silent reading have been mixed. While Hirose2003 found phrase length effects in Japanese, Jun and Kim 2004 did not find an effect of relative clause length on prosodic phrasing inproduction in Korean, although RC length did affect off-line perception. We examine whether and how the length of the matrixsubject affects a following dative NP's on-line attachment preferences in Korean sentences. Our results indicate effects of thepreceding phrase length on dative NP attachment during silent reading, supporting the implicit prosody hypothesis (Fodor 1998,2002).Jiwon Hwang (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York) Session 55Ellen Broselow (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)Susana de Leon (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)Nancy Squires (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)Minimizing the distance between perception & productionWe report on results of behavioral and ERP studies of perception in which Korean listeners were presented with pairs of stimuli alonga continuum that ranged from no vowel (e.g. tegnal) to a full vowel (e.g. tegnal) at intervals of 20msec. This experiment revealed thatthe boundary for categorical perception of the /stop-nasal/ vs /stopV-nasal/ varies by place. We propose that Korean speakers'tendency to insert a vowel more often in /gN/ sequences than in /bN/ sequences is due to this perceptual asymmetry.Larry M. Hyman (University of California, Berkeley) Session 31There is no pitch-accent prototypeMany scholars use the term ‘pitch-accent’ to refer to a defective tone system whose mark is obligatory, culminative, privative,131