LINGUIST List 14.131

Wed Jan 15 2003

Calls: Phonology/Semitic Ling

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

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1. honeybop, Manchester Phonology Meeting, Machester UK
2. ghatav, Semitic Linguistics within Contemporary Approaches, FL USA

11th Manchester Phonology Meeting

Short Title: 11mfm
Location: Manchester, UK
Date: 22-May-2003 - 24-May-2003 
Call Deadline: 23-Feb-2003

Web Site: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html
Contact Person: Patrick Honeybone
Meeting Email: honeybopedgehill.ac.uk

Linguistic Subfield(s): 
Phonology, Phonetics, Historical Linguistics

Meeting Description: 

BACKGROUND

The Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting (11mfm) is the latest in a
series of meetings which have become one of the key conferences for
phonologists from all corners of the world. In an informal atmosphere,
we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological
description of languages, phonological theory, phonological
acquisition, phonological change and the interface between phonology
and neighbouring disciplines (phonetics, sociolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, etc.)

SPECIAL SESSION

There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything,
but, following the success of such sessions in previous years, a
special themed session has been organised on 'Historical Phonology And
Phonological Theory'.

SPECIAL SESSION SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order): 
* Mark Hale (Concordia) 
* Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) 
* Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz) 
* April McMahon (Sheffield) 

ORGANISERS 

This is the mfm organising committee. The first named is the main
organiser - if you would like to attend or if you have any queries
please feel free to get in touch (honeybopedgehill.ac.uk, or phone
+44 (0)1695 584244).

* Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College of Higher Education) 
* Ricardo Berm�dez-Otero (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 
* Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (University of Manchester) 
* Philip Carr (Universit� de Montpellier - Paul Val�ry) 
* Jacques Durand (Universit� de Toulouse - Le Mirail) 
* Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) 

We invite abstracts for full papers or poster presentations from
phonologists, phoneticians, psychologists, sociolinguists,
computational linguists - in short, anyone interested in exploring
current models of phonological theory and the (cognitive, phonetic,
sociological, computational...) implications of such
work. Presentations on a variety of languages are welcome. Full papers
will last around 30 minutes with around 10 minutes for questions, and
the poster session is a key part of the mfm, lasting one and a half
hours, with a carefully limited number of posters.

Abstracts for the 11mfm should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email
(honeybopedgehill.ac.uk) by **23rd February 2003**. Abstracts should
be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or one inch margins,
single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12 and with normal
character spacing. All examples and references in the abstract should
be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring
to previous work, to cite ''Author (Date)'' without giving full
bibliographical details.

Please send two copies of your abstract - one of these should be
anonymous and one should include your name, affiliation and email. Use
one of these formats: Word, pdf, or plain text. If you need to use a
phonetic font in your abstract, use the SILdoulos93 font, which can be
downloaded for free from this site:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html.

Please indicate whether you would be happy to present your paper in
either format (as a full paper or as a poster), or whether you would
only be able to present it in one of these formats, bearing in mind
that this will not affect the organisers' decision on whether to
accept the paper or not, and that we reserve the right to accept an
abstract for a format other than that suggested by the
author(s). Submissions of more than one abstract by the same person
(whether joint or single-authored) will be rejected as we want to
allow as many people as possible to present their work at the
conference. An overhead projector will, of course, be available. If
you need other technical equipment, you must say so in the message
accompanying your abstract and we will do our best to provide it,
although this cannot be guaranteed.

*Further details* concerning abstract submission are available on the
conference website - please make sure that you consult these before
submitting an abstract:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html

Semitic Linguistics within Contemporary Approaches

Short Title: Semitic Linguistics
Location: Gainesville, FL USA
Date: 10-Oct-2003 - 12-Oct-2003 
Web Site: http://web.lin.ufl.edu
Contact Person: Galia Hatav
Meeting Email: ghatavlin.ufl.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax 
Language Family: Semitic

Meeting Description: 

The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida will hold a
conference on the syntax and semantics of Semitic Languages. The
Conference will take place from October 10, 2003 - October 12,
2003. 

Invited speakers: Hagit Borer, USC, Edit Doron, The Hebrew University,
Naama Friedman, Tel-Aviv University Mohammad Mohammad, UT at Austin,
Tal Siloni, Tel-Aviv University

Please send an abstract by March 15, 2003, preferably by E-mail (pdf
or word files are accepted)

Send submission to:
Galia Hatav, University of Florida, Dept of Linguistics, PO Box
115454, Gainesville, FL 32611
E-mail: ghatavlin.ufl.edu Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed
by the end of April.