<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 1"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>(apologies for cross-posting)</span><span style="font-weight:700"><br></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>CALL FOR PAPERS <br></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>***Submission of abstracts (500 words excluding references): </span><span style="font-weight:700">1 November 2021***</span><span style="font-weight:700"></span><span><br></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>
<b>*** All inquiries and abstracts to:</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><<a href="mailto:phonological.diversity@gmail.com">phonological.diversity@gmail.com</a>> ***</span>
</span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>For the volume</span><span style="font-weight:700"> Rarities in phonetics and phonology: evolutionary, structural, typological and social
dimensions
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>To be published in the open-</span><span>access Language Science Press series </span><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>Topics in Phonological Diversity</span></span></i><span>, co-edited by Cormac Anderson (MPI-SHH Jena), Natalia Kuznetsova (<span style="line-height:106%" lang="EN-US">Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - ILS RAS</span>), Shelece Easterday (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)<br></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>The patterns of sounds of the world's languages are many and varied. Although the human articulatory,
auditory, and perceptual apparatus limits and shapes the ways in which languages harness sound to convey
meaning, considerable diversity can be observed in phonological systems cross-linguistically.
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Rare phenomena play a key role in forming and challenging linguistic theory. In formal approaches,
the identification of rare phenomena has been one of the primary means of expanding and modifying
the theoretical acquis. While linguistic typology has often worked rather with larger cross linguistic
samples, a focus on rare phenomena has emerged since the beginning of this millennium (Plank 2000;
Simon & Wiese 2011; Wohlgemuth & Cysouw 2010a, 2010b; Golovko et al. 2015).
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Rarities can be ignored by linguistic theory, be reanalysed as regular, or be incorporated by changing
the theory (Simon & Wiese 2011). Within phonology, a number of thematic studies taking the third
approach have recently appeared (Anderson 2016, Blevins 2018, Blevins et al. 2020, Kuznetsova 2018,
Easterday 2019, Edwards 2019). This work can be seen in the context of an expansion of research on
the evolutionary aspects of both universals and rarities, with attempts to explain typical pathways of
emergence or disappearance (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2015; Round 2019).
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>For various reasons, rarities are often concentrated in lesser-studied languages (Whalen & McDonough
2019; Tucker & Wright 2020), which with greater investigation may challenge our understanding of what
is rare or typical, possible or impossible. Suggested reasons include a sociolinguistic distance observed
between those varieties and big languages (Mansfield & Stanford 2017), or an especially strong
motivation for their speakers to be different (Bird & Kell 2017). Statistically, fewer contexts for language
use might also increase the probability for preserving the quirks of random drift (Jäger, forthcoming).
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>After a successful workshop (</span><a href="http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/PLM2021_Programme"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/PLM2021_Programme</span></span></a><span>) on the topic,
we are happy to announce a call for submissions to an edited volume, to be published in the open-access
</span><span>series </span><i><span>Topics in Phonological Diversity</span></i><span> at Language Science Press. We </span><span>invite submissions for papers
investigating synchronic and diachronic rarities in phonetics and phonology. These might include
individual studies or thematic surveys of specific sounds, features, systems, structures, or phenomena.
Proposals focusing on synchronic rarities in a single language will be considered, but a broad
typological or evolutionary perspective is preferred. We particularly encourage submissions dealing
with lesser-studied languages.
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>The topics include, but are not limited to, the study of: </span><span><br></span></span></font></p><ul><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>phonological rarities;</span><span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">phonetic<span> rarities;</span><span><br></span></span></font></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>rarities and phonological typology;</span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>possible reasons for rarities (structural, acoustic, articulatory, perceptual, cognitive, statistical,
sociolinguistic, etc);
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</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span><span>evolution (rise and fall) of rarities; </span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>sociolinguistic aspects of rarities.
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</span></font><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>The diversity of phonological patterns has been matched by the multitude of different ways linguists
have attempted to account for them. Some of these ways may also be rare and interesting. For this
reason, we aim to see a variety of theoretical frameworks represented at the volume and also welcome
submissions that focus on rare types of phonological analysis. <br></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><b>Timeline:</b><br></span></span></font></p><ul><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Submission of abstracts (500 words excluding references): </span><span style="font-weight:700">1 November 2021</span><span style="font-weight:700"></span><span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Submission of full papers: </span><span style="font-weight:700">1 May 2022</span><span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Provisional time of publication: </span><span style="font-weight:700">late 2022 </span><span style="font-weight:700">– </span><span style="font-weight:700">early 2023 </span></span></font></li></ul><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>
<b>All inquiries and abstracts to:</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><<a href="mailto:phonological.diversity@gmail.com">phonological.diversity@gmail.com</a>></span>
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</span></font><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Shelece Easterday, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics</div><div>University of Hawai'i at Mānoa</div><div><a href="mailto:shelece@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">shelece@hawaii.edu</a><br></div></div></div></div>