21.2660, Calls: Phonology/Morocco

Mon Jun 21 15:48:18 UTC 2010

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2660. Mon Jun 21 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.2660, Calls: Phonology/Morocco

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Date: 20-Jun-2010
From: Nabila Louriz < nabilita at gmail.com >
Subject: 8th Old World Conference in Phonology

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:45:49
From: Nabila Louriz [nabilita at gmail.com]
Subject: 8th Old World Conference in Phonology

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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: OCP8 at gmail.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

Main Conference: 

We invite submission of abstracts for either a 
- 20 min oral presentation, followed by 10 min of discussion, or
- 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 

The list of keynote speakers will posted as soon as we get confirmation from all
speakers. 

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. 

In order to ensure an anonymous reviewing procedure, please make sure 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 trace
regarding authors remains. Note that once your abstract is downloaded, there
will be no possibilty to delete the author information, as we will not touch
your abstract before the reviewers download it.

Important Note:

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 OCP 8 submission page 
- 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 
(i) Submissions for the main conference: 
[title'-main.pdf'], e.g. 'Emphasis in Arabic -main.pdf' 
(ii) 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, 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 bird registration:  before 15 December, 2010
Workshop/conference: 18/19-21 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
Karim Bensoukas
Abdelaziz Boudlal

Contact:

Nabila Louriz
OCP8 at gmail.com
nabilita at gmail.com

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