Daniel Currie Hall

Onderzoeker, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
Associate member, Graduate Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

Ph.D. - University of Toronto, 2007

M.A. - University of Toronto, 1998
forum paper: "A Linguistic Approach to Metaphor and Other Tropes"
Supervisor: Jack Chambers

B.A. - University of Toronto, 1997 (Innis College)
major: linguistics
major: Czech & Slovak studies
minor: English

e-mail:daniel /dɒt/ hall /æt/ utoronto /dɒt/ ca
daniel /pʏnt/ hall /aːpəstaːrtjə/ meertens /pʏnt/ knaw /pʏnt/ nl

Courses taught in 2008-09 (UTM)

  • LIN 100: Introduction to General Linguistics
    (first half - Fall 2008)
  • LIN 228: Phonetics
    (Fall 2008)
  • LIN 232: Syntactic Patterns in Language
    (Fall 2008)
  • LIN 231: Morphological Patterns in Languages
    (Fall 2006)
  • LIN 331: Syntactic Theory
    (Winter 2009)
  • LIN 247: Semantics and Pragmatics
    (Winter 2009)

Other courses taught in recent years

Course-related software

Interactive Sagittal Section
  • Displays mid-sagittal sections and IPA transcriptions for user-specified articulations
  • Runs in a web browser using JavaScript
  • Tested in Safari 1.0, Netscape 4.x and 6.1, iCab 2.5.1, Internet Explorer 5.0, Opera 5.0; should work in any other comparable (or newer) browser

Publications and conference presentations

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Dresher, B. Elan, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2009. "Contrast in the twentieth century and beyond." Presented at the 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting (17mfm), University of Manchester, May 2009.
PDF file: Handout: DresherHall_17.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2009. "Laryngeal neutralization in Breton: Loss of voice and loss of contrast." Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2009. "Where—and what—is number?" Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2009. "Aspects of individuation." Presented at the Mass/Count Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2009.

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2008. "Tea, eels, furniture, and cattle." Presented at the 12th Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL), University of Ottawa, December 2008.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2008. "The voicing system of Île de Groix Breton." Presented at the Workshop on Phonological Variation in Voicing, Universiteit Leiden, September 2008.

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2008. "The Hungarian conditional: Non-deictic counterfactuality." Presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2008. In Jones, Susie, ed. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
PDF file: CLA2008_Cowper_Hall.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2008. "Old English high vowel deletion in stocking feet." Poster presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2008. In Jones, Susie, ed. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
PDF file: Poster (full colour, a0 paper): oehvd-poster.pdf
PDF file: Handout (black and white, a4 paper): oehvd-handout.pdf
PDF file: Paper (black and white, letter paper): CLA2008_Hall.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2008. "Socks for Germanic feet." Presented at the Montréal–Ottawa–Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop, McGill University, Montréal, March 2008.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2007. "Laryngeal underspecification and Richness of the Base." In Blaho, Sylvia, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer, eds. Freedom of Analysis? Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 11–34.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2007. "Contrastive specification in Optimality Theory: The revenge of the affricates." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. In Radišić, Milica, ed., Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 14 pages.
PDF file: Hall.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2007. "The morphosyntactic manifestations of modality." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. In Radišić, Milica, ed., Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 11 pages.
PDF file: Cowper_Hall.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2007. "Disperseness without Dispersion." Presented at the Workshop on the Structure of Segment Inventories at the 30th Annual Colloquium of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW XXX), Universitetet i Tromsø, April 2007.
PDF file: Abstract: Hall.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2007. "Inventorial econometrics." Presented at the Montréal–Ottawa–Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, March 3, 2007.
PDF file: Handout: econometrics-handout.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2006. "Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry." Presented at the Workshop on Determiners, Winnipeg, November 25, 2006.
PDF file: Handout: CowperHall.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, Mike Barrie, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2006. "Asymmetries in Cantonese glides: Where is the OCP evaluated?" Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2006.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2006. "Modelling the linguistics-poetics interface." In Dresher, B. Elan, and Nila Friedberg, eds. Formal Approaches to Poetry: Recent Developments in Metrics (vol. 11 in the series Phonology and Phonetics). Berlin: de Gruyter. 221–237.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2005. "Laryngeal underspecification and Richness of the Base." Presented at the Workshop on Freedom of Analysis, Universitetet i Tromsø, September 2005.
PDF file: Abstract: Currie_Halll.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2005. "You can't get there from now: Tense and counterfactuals." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Western Ontario, London, May 2005.
PDF file: Handout: Hall.CLA2005.handout.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2005. "Chugach Alutiiq in a separator theory of prosodic structure." Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, McGill University, February 2005.
PDF file: Handout: Hall.MOT.2005.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2004. "The pieces of π." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 2004. In M.-O. Junker, M. McGinnis, and Y. Roberge, eds. Proceedings of the 2004 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
PDF file: Cowper-Hall-CLA-2004.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2004. "Information theory and the wrong approach to phonological feature specification." Presented at NAPhC 3, Concordia University, Montréal, May 2004.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2004. "Pairwise, pound foolish: Adjacancy and contrast in inventories." Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, February 2004.

Frigeni, Chiara, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2003. "Heads, dependents, and complexity in Shona vowel height harmony." Presented at Phonologie 2003: Des représentations aux contraintes, Université de Toulouse – Le Mirail, July 2003.

Frigeni, Chiara, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2003. "Heads, dependents, and complexity in Shona vowel height harmony." Presented [by Peter Avery] at the World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 2003.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2003. "Prophylaxis and asymmetry in Yokuts." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 2003. In S. Burelle and S. Somesfalean, eds. Proceedings of the 2003 annual conference of the Candian Linguistic Association, 97–108.
PDF file: Hall.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2003. "The role of register in the syntax-morphology interface." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 2003. In S. Burelle and S. Somesfalean, eds. Proceedings of the 2003 annual conference of the Candian Linguistic Association, 40–49.
PDF file: Cowper-Hall.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2003. "A formal approach to /v/: Evidence from Czech and Slovak." Presented at the 12th conference on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 12), University of Ottawa, May 2003.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2003. "Laryngeal feature specifications in West Slavic languages." Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 20: 93-114.
This paper argues for laryngeal feature specifications based on Avery (1996) to account for voicing assimilation phenomena in Czech, Slovak, and Polish within a theory of contrastive specification based on the Successive Division Algorithm of Dresher (1998). The proposed specifications allow for an elegant synchronic and diachronic account of the anomalous voicing behaviour of the segments v and ř.
PDF file: TWPL20_Hall.pdf

Frigeni, Chiara, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2003. "A head-dependent account of Shona vowel height harmony." Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2003.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2002. "A Subject Must Scope." Snippets 6: 8-9.
PDF file: snippets6002.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2002. "The syntactic manifestation of nominal feature geometry." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Toronto, May 2002. In S. Burelle and S. Somesfalean, eds. Proceedings of the 2002 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 55–66.
PDF file: Cowper_Hall_2002.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2002. "Prophylactic Features and Implicit Contrast." Presented at the Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology. University of Toronto, May 2002.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2001. "A Source-Filter Model for Generative Metrics." Presented at NELS 32. City University of New York Graduate Center and New York University, October 2001.
PDF file: Hall.NELS32.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2001. Review of Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal, by Norbert Hornstein. Linguist List 12.2152, 3 September 2001.
PDF file: Hornstein.review.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2001. "Overriding the phase." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association. Université Laval, Québec, May 2001.
PDF file: cowper.and.hall.2001.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2001. "The scope of conjunction." Invited talk, UNC Spring Linguistics Colloquium. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2001.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2000. "Diffusion of dialect words from New Orleans." Journal of English Linguistics 28.3: 265-279.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2000. "Prosodic representations and lexical stress." In Jensen and Van Herk, eds. Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, pp. 49-60. Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa.
PDF file: hall.2000.cla.pdf

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 2000. "Intransitive and: Locality, Movement, and Interpretation." In Jensen and Van Herk, eds. Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, pp. 25-36. Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa.
PDF file: cowper.and.hall.2000.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2000. "Infinity limited." Presented at the first North American Phonology Conference. Concordia University, Montréal, April 2000.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 2000. "Redundant features in Pulaar... and why they aren't." Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. York University, Toronto, February 2000.
PDF file: hall.2000.mot.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1999. "On the geometry of auditory space." Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 17: 134-157.
This paper deals with spatial models of the auditory properties of speech sounds, in particular vowel space as conceived by Liljencrants and Lindblom (1972) and consonant space as discussed in Laver (1994). Computer models are used to explore the mathematical consequences of these spaces, which pose difficulties for phonetically based approaches to phonology. In each case, the problems with the spatial model point out the need to constrain and define the phonetic space with a phonological structure.
PDF file: hall.1999.twpl.pdf

Béjar, Susana, and Daniel Currie Hall. 1999. "Marking markedness: The underlying order of diagonal syncretisms." Presented at the Eastern States Conference on Lnguistics. University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1999.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1999. "Optimality without comparison." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association. Université de Sherbrooke, June 1999.

Cowper, Elizabeth, and Daniel Currie Hall. 1999. "Semantic composition and syntactic structure: English inflection." Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association. Université de Sherbrooke, June 1999.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1999. "Constraining a constraint-based theory." Presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona, Tucson, April 1999.

Balcaen, M. Jean, and Daniel Currie Hall. 1999. "Tiberian Hebrew: Opaque, or simply abstract?" Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. McGill University, Montréal, February 1999.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1998. "Making Gen finite." Presented at the Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1998.

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1998. "Economy and gradable grammaticality." Presented to the Niagara Linguistic Society. University of Toronto, September 1998.
PDF file: Handout: hall.1998.nls.pdf

Hall, Daniel Currie. 1998. "Contrastive specification for West Slavic voicing assimilation." Presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Ottawa, February 1998.



I served as a student aide on the Nelson Canadian Dictionary (Toronto: ITP Nelson, 1997).


Research groups

Markedness and the Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology
Principal investigators: B. Elan Dresher, Keren Rice

Syntax Project
Principal investigators: Diane Massam, Elizabeth Cowper, Alana Johns

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