LINGUIST List 14.376

Thu Feb 6 2003

Calls: Phonology/GLOW 4

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  • honeybop, Manchester Phonology Meeting, UK
  • kimsy, Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Korea

    Message 1: Manchester Phonology Meeting, UK

     Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:02:25 +0000
    From: honeybop <honeybopedgehill.ac.uk>
    Subject: Manchester Phonology Meeting, UK


    11th Manchester Phonology Meeting

    Short Title: 11mfm Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Date: 22-MAY-03 - 24-MAY-03

    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): Historical Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology

    Meeting Description:

    SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

    Deadline for abstracts: Sunday 23 February 2003

    Special session: 'Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory'

    Held at the University of Manchester, UK; organised in collaboration with Edge Hill College, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Universite Toulouse-Le Mirail and the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery

    Conference website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html

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    BACKGROUND

    We are pleased to announce our Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting (11mfm). For the past ten years, this meeting has been 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.) We therefore 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.

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    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 for Friday afternoon by Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Newcastle), Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) and Nigel Vincent (Manchester). This will feature invited speakers and will conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome.

    SESSION TITLE: 'Historical Phonology And Phonological Theory'

    Historical perspectives have long helped to shape phonological theory, and historical phonologists have long sought to test the validity of theoretical models using data from phonological change. There is, for example, a long tradition of enquiry that uses evidence from historical change (e.g. processes of lenition) to probe the nature and structure of phonological representations. The importance that theoretical phonologists have placed on historical data has varied over the years, but it is currently proving to be uniquely relevant to theoretical debates in several phonological fields. Diachronic evidence has a direct bearing on the nature and status of markedness constraints, which take on a central role in the phonological grammar in the model of Optimality Theory; however, several critics of OT have argued that markedness generalizations are in fact mere epiphenomena of recurrent processes of diachronic change, and, as these are driven by performance factors, they should be excluded from 'phonology' proper. For other authors, these performance factors are the direct base of phonology. It is also the case that the rise of strictly parallel approaches to the morphology-phonology interface, such as OT, has posed a challenge to long-accepted views of the life cycle of phonological patterns, according to which rules tend to rise from lower to higher phonological strata in the course of their historical evolution. These are some of the issues that will be addressed in the session, along with the discussion of our speakers' diachronic data.

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

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    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

    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.

    Submission of your abstract will be acknowledged by email. Please feel free to get in touch if you are worried that it has not been received.

    *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

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    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 Bermudez-Otero (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) * Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (University of Manchester) * Philip Carr (Universite de Montpellier - Paul Valery) * Jacques Durand (Universite de Toulouse - Le Mirail) * Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)

    Message 2: Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Korea

     Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:38:50 +0000
    From: kimsy <kimsysejong.ac.kr>
    Subject: Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Korea


    4th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia 2003

    Short Title: Glow in Asia Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of Date: 21-Aug-2003 - 24-Aug-2003 Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2003

    Contact Person: Keun-Won Sohn Meeting Email: Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    THE 4th GLOW IN ASIA 2003, an international conference on theoretical linguistics, will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on August 21-23, 2003. Two additional workshops focusing on scrambling and wh-movement will be held on August 24, 2003.

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    Local Organizers The Korean Generative Grammar Circle Language Research Institute at Seoul National University

    Abstracts for the main session are invited from all areas of theoretical linguistics. The main session will consist of approximately 20 talks. Each speaker will be allotted 45 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion. Abstracts for the two workshops on scrambling and wh-movement are also invited. Each presentation for the workshops will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Please specify whether your abstract is for the main session or for one of the workshops. An author may submit at most one individual and one joint abstract. Abstract submission by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

    Invited Speakers: Main Session: Anders Holmberg (University of Durham) Workshops: Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University), Norvin Richards (MIT)

    Abstract Submission (both for the main session and for the workshops)

    Please send (a) 10 copies of an anonymous two-page abstract, 1-inch margins on all four sides,12pt font, (b) a camera-ready original of the abstract with the author's name and affiliation, and (c) a separate sheet indicating - whether it is for the main session or for the workshops - the title of the paper - the author's name - affiliation - mailing address - e-mail address - telephone number - status (student or non-student)

    to: THE 4th GLOW IN ASIA Selection Committee c/o Prof. Keun-Won Sohn Hannam Univeristy Dept. of English Education 133 Ojung-dong Daeduk-gu Daejeon, Korea (zip code: 306-791)

    Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2003