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[Sophie Wauquier]

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Sujet: 	Call: Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting
Date : 	Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:10:02 +0000
De : 	Patrick Honeybone <patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk>
Pour : 	mfm at lists.ed.ac.uk



CALL FOR PAPERS

Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting

24-26 MAY 2012

Deadline for abstracts: 30th January 2012

Special session: 'Unsolved Problems in Phonology', featuring:
* Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail) 'Latent Consonants'
* Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley) 'Nonderived Environment Blocking'
* Donca Steriade (MIT) 'Segment Sequencing'
* Nina Topintzi (Leipzig) 'Compensatory Lengthening'

Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester. Organised through a collaboration of
phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of
Manchester, and elsewhere.

Conference website: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html

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BACKGROUND
* We are pleased to announce the plans for our Twentieth Manchester
Phonology Meeting (20mfm). The mfm is the UK's annual phonology
conference, with an international set of organisers. It is held in
late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK, and with
excellent international transport connections). The meeting has become
a key conference for phonologists from all over the world, where
anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can
submit an abstract on anything phonological in any phonological
framework. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a broad range of
topics, including the phonological description of languages, issues in
phonological theory, aspects of phonological acquisition and
implications of phonological change.

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SPECIAL SESSION
The fact that the mfm is celebrating its twentieth anniversary has
encouraged us to take stock of what phonology has achieved - and how
much it has really progressed - in recent decades. We have therefore
decided that the topic of the Special Session at the 20mfm will be
'Unsolved Problems in Phonology', and we have invited those listed
above to discuss a key puzzle for phonological theory. We have asked
them to focus on problems for which there once was a solution that
commanded widespread agreement within the phonological community, but
where such consensus has since, for one reason or another, collapsed.
In this sense, we are interested in how a 'solved' problem can become
'unsolved', with all that this implies for questions such as the
causes of agreement and disagreement in the phonological community,
and the extent of progress in phonological research. And, of course,
we have chosen problems that we believe are all interesting in their
own right.

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
**This mentions only a few details - please consult the website for
full information:
- http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html

* There is no obligatory conference theme for the 20mfm - abstracts
can be submitted on anything phonological.

* We are using the Linguist List's EasyAbstracts system for abstract
submission. Abstracts should be uploaded to the 20mfm's page on the
EasyAbstracts site by 30th January 2012:
- http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/20mfm

* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for
questions, and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one
and a half hours. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to
indicate whether you would be prepared to present your work (i) either
as a talk or a poster paper or (ii) only as a poster.

* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by
early March, and we will contact all those who have sent abstracts as
soon as the decisions have been made.

**Further important details** concerning abstract submission are
available on the conference website. Please make sure that you consult
these before submitting an abstract: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html

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ORGANISERS

Organising Committee:
The first named is the convenor and main organiser, If you have any
queries about the conference, feel free to get in touch
(patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk).
* Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)

Advisory Board:
* Adam Albright (MIT)
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Paul Boersma (Amsterdam)
* Bert Botma (Leiden)
* Mike Davenport (Durham)
* Stuart Davis (Indiana)
* Laura Downing (ZAS)
* Mark Hale (Concordia)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois)
* Martin Kraemer (Tromso)
* Yuni Kim (Manchester)
* Nancy Kula (Essex)
* Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens&  Leiden)
* Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice)
* James M. Scobbie (QMU)
* Daniel Silverman (San Jose State)
* Jochen Trommer (Leipzig)
* Christian Uffmann (Sussex)
* Marilyn M. Vihman (York)

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