<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="-1">***Apologies for cross-posting*** </font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">(Update on previous email, w</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">e had to delay the submission dates. New information is below)</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,129,129)">Phonology </span></i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,129,129)">Thematic Issue:</span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,129,129)">‘Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone’</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">DEADLINE EXTENSION: Friday, May 21^st, 2021</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:yellow"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Projected to appear as one of the first issues of Phonology 39 (2022)</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">NB: Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the editors have decided to extend the deadline for submission to the <i>Phonology</i> thematic issue on “theoretical approaches to grammatical tone” to <u>Friday, May 21^st, 2021</u>.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tone is distinct from other phonological phenomena both qualitatively and quantitatively, and has been instrumental in shaping phonological theory in many ways. However, the contributions to current linguistic theory of ‘grammatical tone’ – a type of nonconcatenative morphology where a morpheme is expressed in part by tonal changes and operations (e.g. tone addition, deletion, replacement, spreading, shifting, assimilation, dissimilation, etc.) – have been less apparent. The goal of this thematic issue is to contribute to filling this gap, and to facilitate advances in our understanding of grammatical tone and (morpho)phonological theory in tandem.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Grammatical tone demonstrates a unique configuration of properties above and beyond special features of tone more generally, including postlexical cyclicity effects, non-local relations on the tonal tier, counting effects in floating tone assignment, tone-based templatic effects in great regularity across Africa (surpassing segmental templates à la Semitic and Yokuts), among many others. Given that half the world’s languages are tonal – with a huge number in some of the least documented areas – we suspect phonological theory still has a huge amount to gain by specifically engaging with grammatical tone.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions are invited which directly focus on grammatical tone and phonological theory. We seek to include several tone-system types (e.g. from ‘canonical’ tone systems like Vietnamese to ‘pitch-accent systems’ like Serbian or Japanese). Issues include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the representation of grammatical tone, and the question of grammatical tone allomorphy;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">interactions between grammatical tone and the phonological grammar, e.g. the role of phonological markedness, blocking effects, segmental epenthesis;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">interactions between grammatical tone and other prosodic units, e.g. lexical tone, intonation/boundary tones, other grammatical tones, stress/prominence marking;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the derivation of grammatical tone, e.g. non-categorical application of grammatical tone, input–output vs. output–output relations, cyclic effects, derived environment effects;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">types of (non-)locality effects with grammatical tone, defined either linearly or hierarchically;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">interface with phonetics, e.g. incomplete neutralisation effects, exemplar models;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">interface with morphosyntax, e.g. phonology-free syntax, issues of modularity in grammar;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">prosodic constituency, e.g. (mis)alignment between the domains of grammatical tone and other prosodic constituents in the prosodic hierarchy, kinds of attested nonisomorphy;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the computational properties of grammatical tone.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This thematic issue, which will be edited by Nicholas Rolle (Princeton University), Florian Lionnet (Princeton University) and Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College), is open to all potential contributors, and is projected to appear as one of the first issues of Phonology 39 (2022).</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 21^st, 2021.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General information on the submission of manuscripts can be found in previous issues of the journal, or on the Phonology website (<a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/pho" target="_blank">http://journals.cambridge.org/pho</a>).</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For this issue, submissions should be sent in PDF format to <a href="mailto:nrolle@princeton.edu" target="_blank">nrolle@princeton.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:flionnet@princeton.edu" target="_blank">flionnet@princeton.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:laura.e.mcpherson@dartmouth.edu" target="_blank">laura.e.mcpherson@dartmouth.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl" target="_blank">c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl</a>. An abstract (no longer than 150 words) should be included. Please begin the heading with ‘Phonology thematic issue’.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preference will be given to papers which will occupy no more than 20 printed pages in the journal (around 8000 words). Submissions will be read by at least two reviewers and by the editors of the thematic issue.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">---</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laura McPherson</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Associate Professor of Linguistics</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dartmouth College</span></p></span></div></div></div>