31.727, Calls: Phonology/Canada

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Subject: 31.727, Calls: Phonology/Canada

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:22:18
From: Charles Reiss [charles.reiss at concordia.ca]
Subject: Eleventh North American Phonology Conference

 
Full Title: Eleventh North American Phonology Conference 
Short Title: NAPhCxi 

Date: 08-May-2020 - 09-May-2020
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
Contact Person: Charles Reiss
Meeting Email: cognitivescience at concordia.ca
Web Site: http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphcxi/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 23-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

This is the 20th Anniversary of the North American Phonology Conference, held
every other year since 2000 at Concordia University in Montreal. The
conference focuses on phonological theory in the I-language tradition.

Theme: The Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in Phonology

Despite its importance in discussions of nativism in syntax, the Argument from
the Poverty of the Stimulus (PoS) is hardly mentioned in the phonological
literature. Halle's (1978) 'Knowledge Unlearned and Untaught' provides a PoS
argument, but does not invoke the term. For the most part, the phonological
literature only mentions PoS in order to reject it: ''Many of the arguments
for UG in other domains do not hold for phonology. For example, there is
little evidence of a learnability problem in phonology'' (Mielke, 2008);
''features cannot be innately defined, but must be learned'' (Archangeli &
Pulleyblank, 2015); ''there is no poverty of the stimulus argument in
phonology'' (Carr 2006); ''[I offer] general arguments against the 'poverty of
stimulus' in phonology'' (Blevins 2004). To take two random examples, neither
the 2015 Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory (Hannahs and Bosch) nor the
published version of Prince and Smolensky's foundational OT work (1993/2004)
mention PoS. Despite explicit reference to Universal Grammar, the latter also
lacks the terms ''innate'' and ''nativist''. Kraemer (2015) points out that
some work in OT suggests that there is no need to posit a universal set of
markedness constraints because they can be discovered by a learner monitoring
their own production and perception. In this inauspicious context, we invite
abstracts for NAPhCxi on all topics in phonology from the I-language
perspective, but especially those providing discussion of the status of the
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in Phonology.

Invited Speakers: 
 - Jane Chandlee (Haverford)
 - David Odden (OSU)
 - Yuni Kim (Essex)
 - Hilton Alers Valentin (UPR Mayagüez)


Second Call for Papers: 

Abstract Guidelines: 
 - Deadline: February 23, 2020 (Sunday)
 - Format: pdf file
 - Anonymous abstract
 - Length: 1-4 pages
 - Submission by email to cognitivescience at concordia.ca. In message, provide
the paper's title and the names of all authors along with their affiliations.

Results will be sent out by March 8, 2020. Some abstracts will be accepted for
poster presentation.




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