28.3245, Calls: Phonology/France

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Subject: 28.3245, Calls: Phonology/France

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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:44:31
From: Noam Faust [faustista at yahoo.com]
Subject: Emptiness in Phonogical Theory: a meeting of the Phonological Theory Agora

 
Full Title: Emptiness in Phonogical Theory: a meeting of the Phonological Theory Agora 

Date: 06-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Noam Faust
Meeting Email: faustista at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://pta.cnrs.fr/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

This agora is based on a small number of assumptions that are shared by the
participants:

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

Within this framing, we have identified a number of topics of interest, which
include the following:

- The formal basis of phonological representations (objects) and computation
(processes)
- The division of labour between them
- The proper balance between universals and variation in grammar
- The relation of phonology with (primarily) morphosyntax and phonetics, both
in terms of the interfaces, as well as the necessity of a shared vocabulary
- The ontology and specificity of phonology and its place within Cognitive
Science / the biolinguistics community: what exactly is specifically
phonological (linguistic) (domain- specific), what exactly reflects the
recruitment of more general - Cognitive capacities (domain- general)?
- The necessity of formalization

For more information on the phonological Theory Agora: http://pta.cnrs.fr/

For information on the current venue see call for papers.


Call for Papers:

When: October 6, 2017
Where: 61 rue Pouchet, Paris

This symposium will be devoted to the many-faceted issue of emptiness. It will
have two parts. 

- In the morning, a tutorial on the topic will be given by Eva Zimmermann and
Sabrina Bendjaballah. 

- In the afternoon, there will be a session of “make a claim and defend it”
about this topic. 

Among the theoretical questions related to emptiness are

- Does zero equal emptiness, or does the latter always concern a position? 
- Is zero a grammatical object distinct from the absence of a grammatical
object?
- What is the relation between emptiness and non-specification, or other
aspects of defectiveness?
- What determines whether an empty/unspecified position/object will require
filling/identification, or instead may remain with no direct realization?
- Which phonological objects can be empty, and which cannot, and what are the
consequences for phonological theory?
- How are empty objects learned?
- Is the contrast between an object and zero different from the contrast
between two non-null objects?
- How can phonologically-driven paradigmatic gaps be modeled? 
- etc.

Anonymous one-page abstracts (12p., not including references) should be
submitted to pta(at)cnrs.fr before September 1. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 8.




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