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Thu Feb 15 2007
Calls: Phonology/France; General Linguistic/ Indonesia
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1. Te-hsin
Liu,
Problems with surface-based generalizations
2. David
Gil,
Workshop on the Languages of Papua
Message 1: Problems with surface-based generalizations
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Date: 14-Feb-2007
From: Te-hsin Liu <liu.tehsingmail.com>
Subject: Problems with surface-based generalizations
Full Title: Problems with surface-based generalizations
Date: 08-Oct-2007 - 09-Oct-2007
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Te-hsin Liu
Meeting Email: phonoparis8yahoo.fr
Web Site: http://home.kimo.com.tw/tehsinl/
Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2007
Meeting Description:
Date: 8-9 October 2007
Location: Paris, France
Contact mail: phonoparis8yahoo.fr
Site: http://home.kimo.com.tw/tehsinl/
Submission deadline: 7 April 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2007
Since the advent of Optimality Theory (OT) advocating the replacement of rules
by violable constraints, this model faces a number of challenges that appear to
be related to its initial commitment to evaluating a set of surface
'candidates'. One problem is that we have no satisfactory criterion as to which
and how many candidates should be evaluated for a given input. As is shown by
Steriade's (2001) work on the typology of repairs for the constraint against
voiced stops, the only repair attested for violations of such a constraint is
final devoicing. Other potential strategies, such as nasalization, syncope,
metathesis and epenthesis, are not attested. While syncope and epenthesis are
frequent processes among languages, they are never chosen as repair strategies
for final obstruent voicing. However, standard OT has no way to rule out these
possibilities elegantly, and this is far from being the only problem for the
theory. In order to account for problematic opacity facts, several attempts have
been proposed. Thus, Calabrese (2005) proposes to re-establish serialism, the
principle at the heart of classical generative phonology. On the contrary,
Carvalho & Klein (2006) suggest developing a theory of the input, arguing that
phonological representations should explain the reasons of the variable
behaviour of speakers vis-à-vis opacity.
We organize a two-day workshop, addressing any topic related with the above
issues, couched in any theoretical framework. The empirical domains can include
loanwords, word games, sociolinguistic variation, etc.
Speakers will have the opportunity to present a 20-minute talk, followed by 10
minutes of discussion.
Depuis l'avènement de la théorie de l'optimalité (OT) qui prône le remplacement
des règles par des contraintes violables, la phonologie se trouve face à des
défis qui résultent de son engagement initial, fondé sur l'évaluation d'un
ensemble de ''candidats'' de surface. Comme le démontre le travail de Steriade
(2001) portant sur la typologie des stratégies de réparation de la contrainte
interdisant les codas voisées, la seule réparation attestée est le dévoisement
final. D'autres stratégies potentielles, telles la nasalisation, la syncope, la
métathèse ou l'épenthèse, ne sont pas attestées. Alors que l'épenthèse et la
syncope sont des processus fréquents dans les langues, ils ne sont jamais
choisis comme stratégie de réparation pour éviter une coda voisée. Or OT
standard est incapable d'exclure ces possibilités d'une façon élégante. Et ceci
est loin d'être la seule difficulté rencontrée par la théorie. Plusieurs
tentatives ont eu lieu qui essaient d'apporter une solution au problème posé à
OT par l'opacité. Ainsi Calabrese (2005) propose de rétablir le sérialisme, le
principe central de la phonologie générative classique. De leur côté, Carvalho &
Klein (2006) suggèrent de développer une théorie de l'input, seul à même
d'expliquer les raisons du comportement variable des locuteurs.
Nous organisons un colloque de deux jours, portant essentiellement, mais non
obligatoirement, sur des sujets en rapport avec les problématiques ci-dessus, et
sans exclusive de cadre théorique. Les domaines empiriques possibles iraient
jusqu'à inclure les jeux de mots, les emprunts, la variation socio-linguistique,
etc.
Nous sollicitons la soumission de résumés pour une présentation de 20 minutes,
suivie de 10 minutes de discussion.
Invited speakers/Conférenciers invités:
Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley)
Haike Jacobs (University Nijmegen)
Sharon Peperkamp (Université de Paris 8)
Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice)
Format of abstracts:
- an anonymous text no longer than two pages in either French or English;
- page format: A4, 2,5 cm margins on all four sides, 12-point font, simple line
spacing;
- the body of the message contains the title of the presentation proposed as
well as the name, the affiliation, and the electronic address of all authors;
- the abstract, in PDF format, is attached to the message.
La procédure de soumission se présente de la manière suivante:
- résumé anonyme de 2 pages maximum rédigé en français ou en anglais;
- format: A4, marges d'au moins 2,5 cm de chaque côté, police taille 12,
interligne simple;
- le corps du message contiendra le titre de la communication proposée, ainsi
que le nom, l'affiliation, et l'adresse électronique de chacun des auteurs;
- le résumé sera transmis sous la forme d'un fichier PDF attaché à ce message.
Advisory board/Comité scientifique:
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
Marc Klein
Michela Russo
Sophie Wauquier
Organizing Committee/Comité d'organisation:
Kadija Aboufarah
Te-hsin Liu
Marcela San Giacomo
Message 2: Workshop on the Languages of Papua
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Date: 14-Feb-2007
From: David Gil <gileva.mpg.de>
Subject: Workshop on the Languages of Papua
Full Title: Workshop on the Languages of Papua
Date: 08-Aug-2007 - 10-Aug-2007
Location: Manokwari, Indonesia
Contact Person: David Gil
Meeting Email: gileva.mpg.de
Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/wlp
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2007
Meeting Description:
The Workshop on the Languages of Papua will consist primarily of papers
concerned with languages, either non-Austronesian or Austronesian, spoken
in the western half of the island of New Guinea. However, we also encourage
contributions dealing with non-Austronesian languages spoken in other parts
of eastern Indonesia and in Papua New Guinea. Papers may be in any of the
subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse
theoretical persuasions. Presentations at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua
are to be delivered in English.
Final Call for Abstracts
Workshop on the Languages of Papua
8-10 August 2007
Manokwari, Indonesia
Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited to submit a
one-page abstract in electronic form (preferably pdf, but MsWord also
acceptable) to David Gil at the following address:
gil AT eva.mpg.de
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2007
Co-sponsors:
Universitas Negeri Papua
Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Association for Linguistic Typology
Co-organizers:
Yusuf Sawaki, Universitas Negeri Papua
Peter Cole, University of Delaware
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Further information: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/wlp
Inquiries: gil AT eva.mpg.de
The Workshop on the Languages of Papua
will be immediately preceded by the
11th International Symposium on Malay//Indonesian Linguistics
6-8 August 2007, Manokwari, Indonesia
Further information: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil
Also, the Workshop on the Languages of Papua will be followed by the
International Symposium on the Languages of Java
15-16 August 2007, Semarang, Indonesia
Further information: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj.php
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