37.1143, Confs: 2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology (USA)

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Date: 18-Mar-2026
From: Kate Mooney [kemooney at umd.edu]
Subject: 2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology


2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology
Short Title: AMP 2026
Theme: Phonological malleability

Date: 09-Oct-2026 - 11-Oct-2026
Location: College Park, Maryland, USA
Meeting URL: https://amp-2026.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology

Submission Deadline: 01-May-2026

We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed
by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its
special session on phonological malleability (details below).
Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any
identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is
limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4),
figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with
margins of at least one inch (2.54cm) left on all sides. Abstracts
must be submitted in .pdf format.
Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one submission
being single- or primary-authored. All submissions must be novel work,
not published or accepted at a journal, nor given or scheduled at
another conference.
We welcome abstracts in any area that bears on the central questions
of our discipline, including work based on consultant data,
phonological theory, computational phonology, corpus phonology,
experimental phonology, neurobiology of language, diachronic change,
acquisition, sign language phonology, and the interface of phonology
with neighboring disciplines.
Abstracts for the main session and special session can be submitted at
Oxford Abstracts.
Invited Speakers: TBA
Special Session: Phonological Malleability
Phonological representations are malleable in the sense that they may
undergo change. Over the course of L1 & L2 acquisition, long-term
representations of phonological categories must be constructed and
refined according to experience. In speech, the realization of phones
may deviate from stored representations depending on the
morphophonological, prosodic, and segmental context. The nature of
these changes is not free, but constrained by perception, motor
control, abstract computation, and other cognitive biases. In this
special session, we aim to discuss the limits on phonological
malleability, both over the course of acquisition and within a
particular language. We welcome formal, experimental, and
computational approaches toward this theme, along with projects that
address the following questions:
 - What aspects of phonological structure are most malleable during
and after learning?
 - Are there phonological properties that rarely (or never) undergo
change?
 - To what extent is the malleability of different phonological
structures language-specific?
 - How can these patterns of learning and refinement inform our theory
of phonological representation?
Important Information:
Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2026 at 11:59pm EST
Abstract submission link:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82043/submitter
Notification of acceptance: late June
Conference website: https://amp-2026.github.io/
Conference dates: October 9-11, 2026
Location: University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Please email Kate Mooney at kemooney at umd.edu for any inquiries.



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