34.2982, Calls: Phonology / Phonology (Jrnl)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2982. Wed Oct 11 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2982, Calls: Phonology / Phonology (Jrnl)

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Date: 09-Oct-2023
From: Michela Russo [mrusso at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Phonology / Phonology (Jrnl)

Thematic issue: "Metaphony and Umlaut: Theoretical Issues"
Projected to appear as an early issue of Phonology 42,
edited by Michela Russo (CNRS SFL /Paris & U. Lyon) and Rachel Walker
(University of California, Santa Cruz).

Vowel harmony patterns that have traditionally been referred to as
metaphony or umlaut have a long history of study within generative
phonology. Interpreted broadly, these are patterns that target a
strong or privileged position, such as a stressed syllable, and they
may be non-iterative. Metaphony/umlaut-type systems pose special
challenges for phonological theory, and as such, provide an important
empirical domain in which to develop, test, and advance theoretical
approaches. Metaphony/umlaut patterns have attracted recent attention
because of their implications for phonological frameworks, positional
licensing, segmental representations and their atomic elements, and
intersections with morphology. The goal of this thematic volume is to
shed light on these and other issues of significance for phonological
theory through the investigation and analysis of metaphony/umlaut.

Submissions are invited which focus on metaphony/umlaut patterns and
phonological theory. We seek to include studies of a range of
languages or varieties, not limited to Romance and Germanic, for which
the terms metaphony and umlaut are most often applied. The emphasis is
on phenomena that are often associated with metaphony/umlaut-type
systems rather than patterns that have been labeled with these
traditional terms. Topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
·       The representation of the elements involved in
metaphony/umlaut and its relevance for segmental representations, e.g.
unary features, binary features or gestures, the specific features or
gestures that assimilate, marked representations, floating elements;
·       The formal mechanism that drives metaphony/umlaut, e.g.
details of the type of constraint or rule involved, whether it is
different from the mechanism that drives unbounded vowel harmony;
·       The role of morphology in metaphony/umlaut patterns, e.g.
morphological conditioning, morpheme specificity, heteromorphemic
requirements, the phonology-morphology interface;
·       The nature of locality in a trigger-target relation, defined
in metrical, linear or other terms, issues involving segments that are
transparent to harmony or block it;
·       Domains for metaphony/umlaut, defined metrically, word-based
or otherwise, the role of clitics;
·       How markedness plays a role in metaphony/umlaut systems or
what metaphony/umlaut reveals about markedness;
·       Micro-variation in metaphony/umlaut systems within or across
languages and varieties and its analysis;
·       Phonetic research that contributes information on the nature
of an individual system, variation, typology, etc. and its theoretical
analysis;
·       Corpus research that sheds light on the nature of an
individual system, variation, typology, etc. and its theoretical
analysis;
·       The computational properties of metaphony/umlaut and how they
bear on theories of phonological computation.

The call for papers can be accessed on the Phonology website here: htt
ps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/64f744c6bd4
434b3f8e0e165.

Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format to ScholarOne
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/phonology).

For any questions contact the editors directly at
mrusso at univ-paris8.fr, rachelwalker at ucsc.edu, and
phonology at cambridge.org. An abstract (no longer than 150 words) should
be included.

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