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[Sophie Wauquier]

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Sujet: 	Call for Papers: Workshop Phonological Specification
Date : 	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:52:55 +0100
De : 	Marc van Oostendorp <marc.vanoostendorp at gmail.com>
Répondre à : 	Marc van Oostendorp <marc.vanoostendorp at gmail.com>
Pour : 	mfm at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk



    CALL GLOW WORKSHOP 2014


    “Phonological Specification and Interface Interpretation”


      Theme description

The primitives of phonological theory – whether we call them features, 
elements, gestures, or some other name – stand in some relation to 
phonetic reality. Although there is consensus about this, there does not 
seem to be much agreement about specifics, such as how many primitives 
there are, whether they are privative or binary, and whether all 
segments need to be specified for all of them. In this workshop we aim 
to bring together phonologists working in different traditions to 
discuss how some of the most pressing issues are to be resolved.

The first issue is the nature of the relationship between phonological 
primitives and phonetics. As far as we can see, there are roughly three 
options: one can either assume that the primitives represent elements of 
articulation (as in most feature theories or in Articulatory Phonology); 
or elements of acoustics (as in Element Theory). Or is the mainstream 
view incorrect, in that phonological primitives bear no direct 
relationship to phonetics at all (as in Substance-Free Phonology)?

The second issue is to what extent the primitives of phonological 
representation can also be manipulated by modules outside of ‘phonology 
proper’, such as ‘phonetic implementation’ or ‘sociolinguistics’. More 
specifically, does phonetic implementation only add gradient detail to 
the phonological output representation, or can it also add additional 
‘phonological’ objects?

The third question, related to the previous one, is whether we have to 
distinguish between different ‘levels’ of phonological representation, 
each spelling out more or less detail – in other words, whether there is 
‘underspecification’ at the lower levels of phonology (and perhaps also 
in the phonetics), how this is determined, and what evidence we have for 
such underspecification beyond theoretical elegance.

The final question is to what extent the ‘primitives’ of phonological 
theory are really atomic, or whether they have some internal structure. 
There are several types of substructure that come to mind; e.g. binary 
features crucially distinguish an attribute and a value; but one could 
also wonder whether the uniform behaviour of e.g. ‘Place’ features (or 
‘Colour’ elements) in some phonological processes is not really an 
indication of their sharing some internal structure.

The questions outlined above are fundamental and in many cases quite 
old, and we would particularly invite abstracts which aim at a 
principled discussion of these debates in light of recent experimental, 
computational or theoretical work. Presentations will be 25 minutes long 
plus 10 minutes of discussion.


      Invited speakers

  * Paula Fikkert <http://www.fikkert.com/> (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  * John Harris
    <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/People/linguistics-staff/j_harris> (University
    College London)
  * Bert Vaux <http://sitekreator.com/vaux/main_page.html> (University
    of Cambridge)


      Abstract submission guidelines

All papers submitted for the GLOW 37 Phonology Workshop should adhere 
strictly to the following guidelines:

  * Abstracts must not exceed two A4 pages in length (including data and
    references), have one inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides, be set in
    Times New Roman with a font size no smaller than 12pt and single
    line spacing.
  * Examples must be integrated into the text of the abstract, rather
    than collected at the end.
  * Nothing in the abstract, the title, or the name of the document
    should identify the author(s).
  * At most two submissions per author, at most one of which can be
    single-authored. The same abstract may not be submitted to both the
    main colloquium and a workshop.
  * Only submissions in pdf-format will be accepted.
  * Abstracts are submitted via the GLOW 37 Easychair-page:
    https://www. easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow37
    <https://www.%20easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow37>.
  *



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