<OM>: conference call, 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting

[Scott Berthiaume]

> SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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> Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting
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> 22-24 MAY 2003
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> Deadline for abstracts: Sunday 23 February 2003
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> Special session: 'Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory'
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> Held at the University of Manchester, UK; organised in collaboration with
Edge Hill College, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Universite
Toulouse-Le Mirail and the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery
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> Conference website:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html
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> BACKGROUND
> We are pleased to announce our Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting
(11mfm). For the past ten years, this meeting has been one of the key
conferences for phonologists from all corners of the world. In an informal
atmosphere, we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological
description of languages, phonological theory, phonological acquisition,
phonological change and the interface between phonology and neighbouring
disciplines (phonetics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, etc.) We
therefore invite abstracts for full papers or poster presentations from
phonologists, phoneticians, psychologists, sociolinguists, computational
linguists - in short, anyone interested in exploring current models of
phonological theory and the (cognitive, phonetic, sociological,
computational...) implications of such work. Presentations on a variety of
languages are welcome. Full papers will last around 30 minutes with around
10 minutes for questions, and the poster session is a k!
> ey part of the mfm, lasting one and a half hours, with a carefully limited
number of posters.
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> SPECIAL SESSION
> There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything,
but, following the success of such sessions in previous years, a special
themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon by Ricardo
Bermudez-Otero (Newcastle), Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) and Nigel Vincent
(Manchester). This will feature invited speakers and will conclude in an
open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very
welcome.
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> SESSION TITLE: 'Historical Phonology And Phonological Theory'
> Historical perspectives have long helped to shape phonological theory, and
historical phonologists have long sought to test the validity of theoretical
models using data from phonological change. There is, for example, a long
tradition of enquiry that uses evidence from historical change (e.g.
processes of lenition) to probe the nature and structure of phonological
representations. The importance that theoretical phonologists have placed on
historical data has varied over the years, but it is currently proving to be
uniquely relevant to theoretical debates in several phonological fields.
Diachronic evidence has a direct bearing on the nature and status of
markedness constraints, which take on a central role in the phonological
grammar in the model of Optimality Theory; however, several critics of OT
have argued that markedness generalizations are in fact mere epiphenomena of
recurrent processes of diachronic change, and, as these are driven by
performance factors, they shoul!
> d be excluded from 'phonology' proper. For other authors, these
performance factors are the direct base of phonology. It is also the case
that the rise of strictly parallel approaches to the morphology-phonology
interface, such as OT, has posed a challenge to long-accepted views of the
life cycle of phonological patterns, according to which rules tend to rise
from lower to higher phonological strata in the course of their historical
evolution. These are some of the issues that will be addressed in the
session, along with the discussion of our speakers' diachronic data.
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> SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order):
> * Mark Hale (Concordia)
> * Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
> * Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz)
> * April McMahon (Sheffield)
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> ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
> Abstracts for the 11mfm should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email
(honeybop at edgehill.ac.uk) by **23rd February 2003**. Abstracts should be no
longer than one side of A4, 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)" without giving full bibliographical details. Please send two copies
of your abstract - one of these should be anonymous and one should include
your name, affiliation and email. Use one of these formats: Word, pdf, or
plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, use the
SILdoulos93 font, which can be downloaded for free from this site:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html.
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> Submission of your abstract will be acknowledged by email. Please feel
free to get in touch if you are worried that it has not been received.
>
> *Further details* concerning abstract submission are available on the
conference website - please make sure that you consult these before
submitting an abstract:
> http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html
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> ORGANISERS
> This is the mfm organising committee. The first named is the main
organiser - if you would like to attend or if you have any queries please
feel free to get in touch (honeybop at edgehill.ac.uk, or phone  +44 (0)1695
584244).
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> * Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College of Higher Education)
> * Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
> * Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (University of Manchester)
> * Philip Carr (Universite de Montpellier - Paul Valery)
> * Jacques Durand (Universite de Toulouse - Le Mirail)
> * Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
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