LINGUIST List 28.182
Tue Jan 10 2017
Calls: English, Phonology/Spain
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 04-Jan-2017
From: Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez <rosalia
uvigo.es>
Subject: The Sound Pattern of English (SPE) turns 50
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Date: 28-Sep-2017 - 30-Sep-2017
Location: Vigo, Spain
Contact Person: Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://biclce2017.wordpress.com/
Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
Subject Language(s): English
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017
Meeting Description:
Convenors:
Heinz Giegerich (University of Edinburgh) and Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez (University of Vigo).
The 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, BICLCE 2017 (
https://biclce2017.wordpress.com/), which will be held at the University of Vigo on 28-30 September 2017, will be hosting a Phonology Workshop entitled 'SPE turns 50'.
2018 will see the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sound Pattern of English (Harper & Row, 1968), Chomsky and Halle’s foundational work on the phonology of English.
In its day, SPE helped revolutionise linguistic theory far beyond phonology itself and it changed phonological thinking beyond recognition. Fifty years on, the theory presented there is still judged as valid by some phonologists and as at a hugely important milestone towards current theorising by most. Most subsequent work in phonology has referred directly or indirectly to SPE, which remains inescapable reading for any serious phonologist.
It is the aim of this workshop to assess the contribution SPE has made to, and the impact it has had on, current thinking in phonology and neighbouring sub-disciplines of linguistics.
2nd Call for Papers:
The workshop will consist of full papers and work-in progress reports, which will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation (plus 10 minutes for discussion). The deadline for submissions of abstracts (ca. 500 words excluding title, references and keywords) is 31 January 2017.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of March 2017. Abstracts should be sent to biclce.phonology.workshop
gmail.com
We are planning to publish the papers after peer-review process in a special issue of a reputable journal.
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