Conference Information

Full Title:	20th Manchester Phonology Meeting

Short Title:	20mfm
Location:	Manchester, United Kingdom
Start Date:	24-May-2012 - 26-May-2012
Contact:	Patrick Honeybone
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting URL:	http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html
Meeting Description:	We are pleased to announce the plans for our 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting (20mfm). The mfm is the UK’s annual phonology conference, with an international set of organisers. It is held in late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK, and with excellent international transport connections). The meeting has become a key conference for phonologists from all over the world, where anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological in any phonological framework. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a broad range of topics, including the phonological description of languages, issues in phonological theory, aspects of phonological acquisition and implications of phonological change. Special Session: ‘Unsolved Problems in Phonology’ The fact that the mfm is celebrating its twentieth anniversary has encouraged us to take stock of what phonology has achieved - and how much it has really progressed - in recent decades. We have therefore decided that the topic of the Special Session at the 20mfm will be ‘Unsolved Problems in Phonology’, and we have invited speakers to discuss a key puzzle for phonological theory. We have asked them to focus on problems for which there once was a solution that commanded widespread agreement within the phonological community, but where such consensus has since, for one reason or another, collapsed. In this sense, we are interested in how a ‘solved’ problem can become ‘unsolved’, with all that this implies for questions such as the causes of agreement and disagreement in the phonological community, and the extent of progress in phonological research. And, of course, we have chosen problems that we believe are all interesting in their own right. Invited Speakers: Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail), ‘Latent Consonants’ Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley), ‘Nonderived Environment Blocking’ Donca Steriade (MIT), ‘Segment Sequencing’ Nina Topintzi (Leipzig), ‘Compensatory Lengthening’
Linguistic Subfield:	Phonology
LL Issue:	23.1883


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