36.328, Calls: Phonology / United Kingdom

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Subject: 36.328, Calls: Phonology / United Kingdom

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Date: 24-Jan-2025
From: Patrick Honeybone [patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting


Full Title: 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting
Short Title: 31mfm

Date: 29-May-2025 - 31-May-2025
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Patrick Honeybone
Meeting Email: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2025

Thirty-First Manchester Phonology Meeting
29-31 MAY 2025
Deadline for abstracts: 10th February 2025
To be held in-person in Manchester, England.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/31mfm.html
With a special session entitled 'PROSODIC MORPHOLOGY AND TEMPLATIC
PHONOLOGY', featuring the following invited speakers:
* Noam Faust (Université Paris 8)
* Laura Kalin (Princeton University)
* Suzanne Urbanczyk (University of Victoria)
There will also be a separately-organised Fringe Workshop on Wednesday
28th May (held near the main mfm venue) entitled: 'Sublexica Across
Languages'. This is being organised by Quentin Dabouis and Marie
Gabille, and has a separate call for papers. (There is a link to it
from the main mfm website.)
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A detailed CALL FOR PAPERS, with a deadline of 10th February for
abstracts, is available here:
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/31mfm.html#call
There is no obligatory conference theme for the 31mfm - abstracts can
be submitted on anything phonological.
Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4 (or 'American
letter'), with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced, with a font
size no smaller than 12, and with normal character spacing. All
examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one
single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to
cite "Author (Date)" in the body of the abstract - you do not need to
give the full reference at the end of the abstract. Please DO NOT
submit an abstract if it goes over one page for any reason - it will
be rejected. Remember also that, if your abstract is accepted, you
will need to submit a version with your name and email address at the
top, and this will still need to only take up one page - please bear
this in mind and leave space for this when finalising your abstract.
Your abstract should be anonymous. (You will be asked to submit a
version with your name and affiliation on it if your abstract is
selected for presentation.) Please erase any details which might
identify you in the file that you submit now. You must, however, enter
(i) the names of all authors of your abstract, (ii) their
institutional affiliation (university or similar), and (iii) their
email address, into the EasyAbs system during the abstract-submission
process.
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SPECIAL SESSION
A special themed session is being organised for Friday 30th May by
members of the organising committee and the advisory board. The
session will feature invited speakers and will allow for open
discussion when contributions from the audience will be welcome
(abstracts to the conference are not expected to link to this theme).
The special session has the following details:
'Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Phonology'
This Special Session seeks to discuss the state of our knowledge of
the interrelationship between templatic morphophonology and structure
(morphology, prosody, segmental structure) on the one hand, and
computation (timing, ordering, underlying/output restrictions) on the
other. Templatic questions were fundamental in the development of
Optimality Theory, considering cases of prosodic morphology (covering
phenomena like reduplication, infixation and truncation), and
exploring how phonologically-based templates might determine their
patterning and whether the templates involved need to be specified or
might emerge from other aspects of a language's phonology (and/or be
decomposed into multiple constraints on the size, shape, and position
of morphemes). Templates have also played a role in a strand of work
in Government Phonology, which has argued that templatic relations (in
terms of a fixed number of strictly alternating CV units) are
fundamental in understanding the patterning of phonological phenomena
like vowel harmony, ablaut, and stress (allied to the idea that there
are designated portions of a template that are the locus of
morphophonological operations). Templatic phonology has been
fundamental in work on understanding how segments can be ordered in a
morpheme (notably in root-and-pattern morphological systems), and so
questions of phonological processes which alter segmental ordering and
association are relevant to understanding this aspect of phonology.
Understanding prosodic morphology can have big implications - it is an
area where decisions about what phonology can and cannot do
reverberate throughout the whole grammar. This Special Session asks:
where are we now in terms of these issues? And: how do things fit
together? Or: should they not fit together and, rather, be treated
separately? Do we agree on the fundamental roles/behaviours of
templates in phonology? We hope that our invited speakers will address
some of these issues (and other related matters) from a range of
perspectives in this session.



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