25.4608, Calls: Phonology/France

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Subject: 25.4608, Calls: Phonology/France

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:22:22
From: Ora Matushansky [o.m.matushansky at uu.nl]
Subject: Computation & Learnability: Implications for Phonology

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Full Title: Computation & Learnability: Implications for Phonology 

Date: 18-Apr-2015 - 18-Apr-2015
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Giorgio Magri
Meeting Email: magrigrg at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2014 

Meeting Description:

GLOW Workshop 
Paris, April 18, 2015

The implications of computation and learnability for phonological theory

Organizers:

Giorgio Magri, Michela Russo, 
Mohamed Lahrouchi, Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho

Crystallizing a widespread feeling, Mark van Oostendorp recently writes: ''It is fair to say that we know much more about sound patterns in human language than people did at the beginning of the 20th Century. At the same time, many phonologists seem to feel that we have not yet reached the standards of some of the 'hard' sciences.'' A clear obstacle to progress seems to be the fact that competing phonological theories are underdetermined by sheer typological and linguistic data. Moving beyond descriptive adequacy, Alan Prince thus proposes that ''rational arguments about two theories' comparative success […] depend on a broad assessment of their properties.'' Among the formal properties of a phonological theory which are becoming crucial for its comparative assessment are its computability and learnability properties. 

This workshop thus aims at investigating the implications of computation and learnability for phonological theory. The issues addressed include (but are not limited to): the computability/intractability of phonological grammars and the debate among derivational, representational, and constraint-based frameworks; learnability guarantees and the debate between competing modes of constraint interaction; the characterization of phonological patterns within the sub-regular hierarchy and the expressive power of phonological formalisms; the learnability filter and its implications for the evaluation of the typologies predicted by competing phonological theories; methods for constraint induction and the problem of grounding phonology into phonetics; the impact of statistical methods and the divide between categorical and gradient models of phonological competence; the learnability of phonological processes conditioned by prosodic domains and its implications for the syntax/phonology interface. The workshop adopts an inclusive perspective, open to any computational approach and any phonological framework. 

Invited speakers: TBA

Final Call for Papers:

This workshop will collect talks that address these and other related questions. We are particularly interested in talks that relate notions of stativity to notions of eventivity.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2015
Workshop date: April 18, 2015

Submissions:

We invite abstracts for a 20 minute oral presentation followed by a 10 minute discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed 2 pages in length (A4 or letter-size, in 12 pt. font, with 1-inch/2.5-cm margins), including examples and references. The language of the workshop is English. Abstracts should be submitted through the GLOW 38 Easychair page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow38), specifying that the submission should be considered for the workshop.

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