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Sujet: 	Call for papers: Palatalization - Tromsø
Date : 	Thu, 15 May 2014 14:12:06 +0000
De : 	Krämer Martin <martin.kramer at uit.no>
Répondre à : 	Krämer Martin <martin.kramer at uit.no>
Pour : 	mfm at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk <mfm at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk>
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Conference on Palatalization

December 4-5 2014

University of Tromsø/CASTL

Abstract submission deadline August 30 2014

Conference webpage:

https://castl.uit.no/index.php/conferences/palatalization-conference

Abstract submission:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/palatalization

Invited speakers

Alexei Kochetov (University of Toronto)

Ania Łubowicz (University of Minnesota)

Jaye Padgett (UC Santa Cruz)

Call for papers

Palatalization is commonly attested in the languages of the world, and 
has received considerable attention in the literature over the years.

However, it is by no means clear which processes count as palatalization 
phonologically or if the term refers to one or several phenomena. 
Palatalization processes exhibit great variation within and across 
languages, regarding the triggers of the process, the targets, and the 
output of the process. Most studies focus on a certain palatalization 
process in a specific language. Nevertheless, typological surveys have 
revealed some intriguing tendencies. Among these are apparently 
universal implicational relations that have been shown to hold among 
palatalization triggers and targets. For instance, survey results 
indicate that if labials undergo palatalization, so do coronals and 
dorsals (Bhat 1978, Chen 1973, Bateman 2007). If lower front vocoids 
trigger palatalization, so do higher front vocoids, and if non-front 
high vocoids act as triggers, so do front high vocoids (Bateman 2007, 
Kochetov 2011). In addition, coronals tend to be palatalized by high 
vocoids, while dorsals tend to be palatalized by front vocoids (Bhat 
1978, Kochetov 2011).

Outputs of palatalization show a range of variation. The targeted 
segment either acquires a secondary palatal place of articulation or 
shifts the primary place of articulation closer to the palatal region. 
Interestingly, changes in the primary place of articulation are often 
accompanied by spirantization. In addition, the change of manner without 
the change of place is also attested (Bhat 1978, Bateman 2007).

Theoretical approaches to palatalization face a considerable challenge 
of characterizing language-specific patterns in addition to capturing 
cross-linguistic tendencies and variability. Palatalization processes 
have been crucial in developing and testing representational and 
computational phonological models (Clements 1991, Rubach 2003, Padgett 
2003, Baker 2004, Bateman 2007, Iosad and Morén-Duolljá 2009,**Youssef 
2013).

We invite submissions for presentations, including (but not limited to) 
formal analyses, typological and comparative studies, natural and 
unnatural patterns, expressive palatalization, acquisition, diachronic 
accounts, or the phonetics of palatalization.

Abstracts for short or long talks or posters can soon be submitted via 
easyabs and should not exceed one A4 page with 12 point font and 2.45cm 
(1 inch) margins and an additional page for data, figures, and references.


Looking forward to seeing you in Tromsø in December:

Martin Krämer and Olga Urek




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