29.4609, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4609. Tue Nov 20 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4609, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/USA

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:38:38
From: Florian Lionnet Lionnet [flionnet at princeton.edu]
Subject: Princeton Phonology Forum

 
Princeton Phonology Forum 
Short Title: PɸF 2019 

Date: 05-Apr-2019 - 06-Apr-2019 
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA 
Contact: Florian Lionnet 
Contact Email: flionnet at princeton.edu 
Meeting URL: https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

The first meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2019) will be held at
Princeton University on April 5-6, 2019. The theme for PɸF 2019 is “the
representation of gradience in phonology”. Representations are a crucial
component of phonological theory. Most of the representations that we use
today (segments, features, Autosegmental representations, etc.) were developed
before the advent of Optimality Theory, which temporarily switched the focus
of the discipline from representations to grammatical architecture and
computation. 

Several recent independent research programs seem to show that the trend may
be changing. Common to all is the idea that phonology needs richer
representations than traditionally assumed. These must include various
properties often not considered to fall within the purview of phonology, such
as: 

- Phonetic details (e.g. subphonemic perceptual and/or articulatory properties
of segments, phonotactic contextual effect)

- Morphological information (e.g. root vs. affix position)

- Strength of phonological activity (e.g. identical segments or features
differing in whether/how often they trigger or undergo certain phonological
processes)

- Frequency, predictability (of lexical items in discourse, of phonemes in the
lexicon, etc.) 

This workshop is meant to foster discussion about the question of phonological
gradience and its representation, around two central questions: what are the
possible sources of gradience in phonology? What kinds of representations (if
any) do we need to account for phonological gradience?

On Friday April 5, the workshop will run from 1:30pm to 6pm, and on Saturday
April 6, 9am to 5pm. Saturday evening, all attendees are invited to join us
for drinks and hors d’oeuvres
following the workshop. PɸF will run concurrently with the second meeting of
the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST).

Registration is free, but we would appreciate it if those who are planning to
attend would complete the following registration form by March 20, 2019:
http://bit.ly/psst-pff-2019

The schedule, as well as information about transportation, the workshop
location, etc., will all be posted on the workshop website:
https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/

Invited speakers for PɸF 2019:

Sharon Inkelas
John Kingston
Scott Moisik
Claire Moore-Cantwell
Anne Pycha
Stephanie Shih
Caitlin Smith
Paul Smolensky
Sam Tilsen
Rachel Walker
Eva Zimmermann

Workshop organizer:

Florian Lionnet
 






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