26.1474, Calls: Phonology/Poland

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Subject: 26.1474, Calls: Phonology/Poland

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:37:34
From: Tobias Scheer [scheer at unice.fr]
Subject: Phonological Theory Agora

 
Full Title: Phonological Theory Agora 
Short Title: PTA 

Date: 22-Jun-2015 - 23-Jun-2015
Location: Lublin, Poland 
Contact Person: Sophie Wauquier
Meeting Email: pta at cnrs.fr
Web Site: http://pta.cnrs.fr/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

Phonological Theory Agora
Standup sessions: make a claim and defend it
http://pta.cnrs.fr/

French CNRS and seven partner institutions outside of France have created a network 
(called GDRI in the French jargon) designed to promote discussion around phonological 
theory: PTA (Phonological Theory Agora). PTA makes a number of assumptions that 
frame its activity:

1. Both theories of symbolic representations and computation are needed
2. Phonology and phonetics are distinct systems
3. Demonstrations that are not based on corpus data and/or statistical relevance may be 
conclusive

>From 2015 to 2018, PTA organizes one conference a year (maybe among other things), 
which will be travelling to different cities. The first venue is Lublin / Poland, and will lean 
on the APAP conference that two Lublin Universities organize independently (http://
www.apap.kul.pl/): APAP takes place on June 19-21, PTA continues on June 22-23.

Each PTA venue has a theme. Lublin is about the relationship between derivation and 
representation. In order to promote discussion, rather than professoral declamation, the 
basic conference format is standup-style: speakers make a claim and provide supporting 
argument (10 min.), which is then discussed by the floor (20 min.). Before this session, the 
theme is introduced by a tutorial that reports relevant facts and views.

Call for Papers:

Submission of (short) one-page abstracts for claim-making standups is invited until April 
15, to be sent to pta at cnrs.fr.

More information about the general setup of PTA and the Lublin venue is available at http:/
/pta.cnrs.fr.




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