LINGUIST List 21.3631 Tue Sep 14 2010 Calls: Phonology/Morocco Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Nabila Louriz, 8th Old World Conference in Phonology Message 1: 8th Old World Conference in Phonology Date: 12-Sep-2010 From: Nabila Louriz <nabilitagmail.com> Subject: 8th Old World Conference in Phonology E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 8th Old World Conference in Phonology Short Title: OCP 8 Date: 20-Jan-2011 - 22-Jan-2011 Location: Marrakech, Morocco Contact Person: Nabila Louriz Meeting Email: OCP8gmail.com Linguistic Field(s): Phonology Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: The University of Hassan II, Ain Chock, Casablanca is proud to announce that it will host the eighth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8). It will take place in Marrakech, and it will follow the line of previous OCP conferences which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh and Nice. There is no specific theme for the main conference, abstracts can be submitted on anything. However, there is a half-day thematic pre- conference workshop on 'The Contribution of Arabic and Amazigh in Phonological Theory' Call for Papers Keynote speakers: - Karim Bensoukas (Mohammed V University, Morocco) - Mohamed Guerssel (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University, USA) - Janet Watson (Salford University, UK) Main conference: we invite submission of abstracts -either for 20 min oral presentation, followed by 10 min of discussion -or for poster presentation Submissions will be anonymously refereed by at least two reviewers (see the advisory board). Workshop: we invite submission of abstracts For 20 min oral presentation, followed by 10 min of discussion Abstracts are submitted through the EasyAbstracts system of Linguist List. In order to submit, go to the OCP8 submission page before September 20th, midnight: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/OCP8-2011 You will be asked whether your submission concerns the main conference or the workshop. BUT in order to ensure an anonymous reviewing procedure, please double-check that the file which you upload is completely anonymous and does not contain any information that identifies the authors. Uploaded files must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Pdf files carry information about users in the Document Properties (CTRL-D or file/document properties). Please make sure that no traces regarding authors remain. Please note that once you upload your abstract, it will not be possible to clean up the author's identifying information. We will not touch it before the reviewers download it. Important: If you have problems while uploading your abstract, please DO NOT repeat the submission procedure several times: the submission software does not allow us to cancel submissions. Rather, contact us: if the wrong abstract was uploaded, we will be able to replace it with an updated version, you will just have to send us the latest version. Instructions for abstract submission -upload your file to the submission page: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/OCP8-2011 -abstracts are no longer than two pages, with an eventual third page containing examples and references -submissions are restricted to one single-authored and one co-authored abstract at most -the conference language is English: abstracts and talks will be in English -deadline for submission: September 20th, 2010 -page format: A4, 2,54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides, 12-point font, simple line spacing -file formal: .pdf -file name -submissions for the main conference: [title'-main.pdf'], e.g. 'Emphasis in Arabic -main.pdf' -submissions for the workshop: [title'-workshop.pdf'], e.g. 'Vowelless syllables in Amazigh-workshop.pdf' We aim to finalize the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by mid October 2010, and we will contact those who have sent abstracts as soon as the decisions have been made. Important dates: Submission deadline: 20th September, 2010 Notification of acceptance: 15th October, 2010 Early registration: before 15 December, 2010 Workshop/conference: 19/20-22 January 2011 Advisory board: Albright, Adam (MIT) Bendjaballah, Sabrina (CNRS, Paris 7) Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo (University of Manchester) Blaho, Sylvia (RIL HAS Budapest) Botma, Bert (Leiden) Brandao de Carvalho, Joaquim (Paris 8) Cyran, Gienek (Lublin) Ewen, Colin (Leiden) Hall, Tracy (Indiana) Hannahs, S.J. (Newcastle upon Tyne) Harris, John (UCL) Honeybone, Patrick (University of Edinburgh) Kula, Nancy (Essex) Lahiri, Aditi (Oxford) Laks, Bernard (Paris 10) Nevins, Andrew (Harvard) Nguyen, Noël (Aix en Provence) Oostendorp, Marc van (Meertens Instituut) Piggott, Glyne (McGill) Pöchtrager, Markus (Istambul) Rice, Curt (Tromso) Silverman, Daniel (San José State) Szigetvári, Péter (ELTE Budapest) Trommer, Jochen (Leipzig) Uffmann, Christian (Sussex) Vihman, Marilyn M. (York) Wauquier, Sophie (Paris 8) Local organizing committee Nabila Louriz (Hassan II University, Ain Chock, Casablanca) Karim Bensoukas (Mohammed V University, Rabat) Abdelaziz Boudlal (Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida) Contacts Nabila Louriz OCP8gmail.com nabilitagmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.