34.669, Calls: Metaphony: Theoretical, Descriptive and Typological Issues. Satellite Event (Workshop) PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) 2023

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Subject: 34.669, Calls: Metaphony: Theoretical, Descriptive and Typological Issues. Satellite Event (Workshop) PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) 2023

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From: Michela Russo [mrusso at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Metaphony: Theoretical, Descriptive and Typological Issues. Satellite Event (Workshop) PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) 2023

Full Title: Metaphony: Theoretical, Descriptive and Typological
Issues. Satellite Event (Workshop) PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in
Europe) 2023
Short Title: Satellite Event PaPE

Date: 01-Jun-2023 - 01-Jun-2023
Location: Nijmegen, the Netherlands -Radboud’s Centre for Language
Studies (CLS), Netherlands
Contact Person: Michela Russo
Meeting Email: mrusso at univ-paris8.fr
Web Site: https://pape-conference.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2023

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Michela Russo (CNRS SFL /Paris 8 & U. Lyon 3, France) &
Rachel Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

Metaphony is a well-known phonological process found in many
languages. It has been interpreted as an instance of a stress-induced
vowel harmony, since the properties of following unstressed vowels are
attracted by stressed vowels. For example, metaphonic raising has been
analyzed as the result of transferring, spreading, or copying a height
feature from an unstressed syllable to the stressed syllable.
Discussions have varied in the literature, and distinct models have
been developed to understand the process from formal phonology to
phonetic/acoustic experimental studies. The aim of this workshop is to
compare several harmonic systems, referred to as metaphony, in order
to examine how metaphony is best represented and analyzed. For
example, several accounts of metaphony systems have employed binary
features, such as [high] or [ATR] (e.g. Calabrese 1985, 1998, 2011),
while others employ unary features (phonological primes are unary
elements). In the latter case, a loss of unary features/element primes
may occur, |A| in raising metaphony or |~a| in dependency-based
models, while there may be copy of |A| from a licensor in opening
metaphony (e.g. Maiden 1991; Russo 2007, 2014; Carvalho & Russo 2007;
D’Alessandro & Oostendorp 2016; van der Hulst 2018). Also under focus
is what rules or constraints drive metaphony, such as issues in the
formulation of positional licensing constraints (e.g. Walker 2005,
2011; Lloret & Jiménez 2009; Kaplan 2018; Jiménez & Lloret 2020).

This workshop aims to examine questions such as the following:

- What is the representational nature of the elements involved in
metaphony (e.g. binary features, unary features, or gestures)?
- Is the set of metaphonic features grounded in phonetics and/or in
cognitive principles categorizing the phonetic substance? (See Samuels
et al. 2022)
- How can we establish a set of phonological primitives? And how can
the set of (active) elements in the binary or unary system vary
depending on the metaphony system?
- How are phonological properties and complexity encoded in the
models?
- Which is the relation between unary systems and markedness in
metaphony?
- What formally drives metaphony (e.g. positional licensing
constraints, rules)?
- How are trigger-target relations and the nature of locality
established?
- How does metaphony operate between suffix and stem and what are the
different possible roles of morphology in metaphony?
- How can we take into account morpheme-specific effects,
heteromorphemic primes and morpho-phonologically based requirements?
- Does a basic categorization principle exist to limit the set of
elements to a number of units per class anchored in categorical
perception?
- How are metaphony and umlaut different from vowel harmony, if at
all?

In defining theoretical mechanisms and representations of metaphony
systems, phonological rules or constraints and licensing phenomena,
several other points are also at issue: principles of locality,
relativized locality, non-local mechanisms, iterative or non-iterative
metaphony, hierarchical constraint interactions, co-occurrence
restrictions, the definition of positional licensing constraints in
Optimality Theory and in Harmonic Grammar, the type of licensing
applied to floating features, directionality, disharmonic roots,
opacity vs. transparency, reduction to schwa, deletion or raising
affecting final vowels (derivational opacity and the notion of
transfer in apophonic languages), definition of the stressed
nucleus/recipient vs. unstressed syllables (since metaphony is
stress-related), strengthening of the stressed syllable and weakening
of the unstressed syllable, copying/movement of primes and the
consequent ranking, variation.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited on these topics related to phonology or
phonetics and their interfaces with each other. Submissions from any
school or theoretical framework of phonology are welcome (for example,
Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Radical CV Phonology,
Optimality Theory, Harmonic serialism, Harmonic Grammar, Laboratory
Phonology, Substance-free Phonology).
Abstracts should follow the guidelines of the main conference
(https://pape-conference.org/callforpapers.html#content5-1h ). They
should be sent to the convenors’ email addresses:
michela.russo at cnrs.fr and rachelwalker at ucsc.edu with the subject line
“Abstract”. Depending on the number of submissions, a short poster
session may be included.
Registration: Details t.b.a. at
https://pape-conference.org/registration.html

Format, duration:
We invite contributions addressing any of the points above, aiming for
a balanced session over a day (10h – 17h30, 1st of June). The workshop
will have the following format.

Part 1
The workshop will start with individual contributions. Presentations
will be 15 minutes each. The presentations will be grouped together
according to topic. At the end of each presentation there will be 5
minutes for questions.

Part 2
Participants will be organized into four working groups. The groups
will brainstorm and come up with a number of concrete ideas for
studies. During the final portion of the workshop, all attendees will
participate together in a round table (with the Keynote speakers:
Charles Reiss, Aaron Kaplan, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Moderators:
Michela Russo and Rachel Walker) to develop a final list of questions
and new directions for study.

Keynote Speakers
Charles Reiss (Concordia University, Canada)
“Metaphony in Substance Free Logical Phonology”

Maria-Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona, Spain)
“Constraining the scope of metaphony in southeastern peninsular
Spanish”

Aaron Kaplan (University of Utah, USA)
“Metaphony in Bolognese”

Workshop goals:
- to sum up knowledge we have so far about the nature and role of
metaphony
- to initiate collaborations across different perspectives, combining
different viewpoints
- to jump-start concrete studies
- to further our understanding of the role of metaphony in information
transmission at multiple linguistic levels

Abstract submission deadline:   March 31st, 2023
Notification of acceptance:     April 21st , 2023
Workshop program announced:     May 11th , 2023
Workshop date:  June 1st, 2023

Contact and submissions:
Michela Russo (michela.russo at cnrs.fr), Rachel Walker
(rachelwalker at ucsc.edu)

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