29.4533, Calls: Phonology/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4533. Thu Nov 15 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4533, Calls: Phonology/France

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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:51:53
From: Tobias Scheer [scheer at unice.fr]
Subject: Phonological Theory Agora

 
Full Title: Phonological Theory Agora 
Short Title: PTA 

Date: 15-Mar-2019 - 16-Mar-2019
Location: Nice, France 
Contact Person: Jonathan Bucci
Meeting Email: buccijo at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ptanice.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The French-funded GDRI Phonological Theory Agora (http://pta.cnrs.fr/)
organizes its closing meeting in Nice on March 15-16, 2019. The topic debated
is ''The Balance Between Universals and Variation in Grammar'', implemented by
the question

Emergent markedness, universal features, or the reverse?
(see the description below)

All useful information is available on the conference website
https://ptanice.wordpress.com/

Emergent markedness, universal features, or the reverse?

Markedness and melodic primes (of various kinds: binary or monovalent
features, Elements, particles) are standard notions manipulated by
phonological theory and there is broad agreement that languages have
preferences for certain structures (markedness), and that segments (or sounds)
are decomposed into smaller units (primes). What is not agreed, however, is if
markedness and melodic primes are universal properties of language, and thus a
part of UG and innate, or if they are emergent patterns based on environmental
information gathered by the child. Defenders of the emergentist position need
to come up with a mechanism that explains cross-linguistically recurrent
patterns in inventories and computation, whose existence is a central
motivation for the universalist position.

We are inviting functionalist and formalist contributions from domains of
study including dialectology, typology, acquisition, cognition
(domain-specific vs. domain-general) that can be brought to bear on the
question of whether markedness and melodic primes are cross-linguistically
stable or language-specific. In particular, we are interested in determining
which properties of phonological objects and computation are subject to
universal restrictions imposed by UG and which enjoy language-specific freedom
– and what kinds of evidence, in segmental inventories, in phonological
processes, or outside of phonology entirely, can be used to provide arguments
for the respective positions.

The Organizers:

Jonathan Bucci
Alexander Chabot
Paolo Danesi
Diana Passino
Tobias Scheer


Call for Papers:

There will be three types of sessions:

1. a tutorial on the conference topic by Bridget Samuels (Pomona) and Paul de
Lacy (Rutgers)
2. stand up and make a claim (about the conference topic): 10 min
presentation, 20 mis discussion.
3. data set on syllable structure, to be downloaded on the webpage. Different
analyses of this data set will be presented.

Submissions for points 2) and 3) are invited until Jan. 15. Authors will be
notified before the end of Jan. 2019.

Abstract Submission:

We invite abstracts no longer than one side of A4, with one inch margins,
single-spaced, with a font size of 12. It is enough, when referring to
previous work, to cite « Author (Date) » in the body of the abstract.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 15 January. Abstracts for the
''Make a claim'' session must be sent to
alexanderDOTchabotATuniv-cotedazurDOTfr. Abstracts for the ''dataset'' session
must be sent to paoloDOTdanesiATuniv-cotedazurDOTfr. Notifications will be
sent by 31 January, 2019.

If you need more information please contact Jonathan Bucci at
buccijoATgmail.com




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