[parislinguists] PTA: Derivation vs. representations in Lublin

[tobias.scheer@unice.fr [parislinguists]]

Phonological Theory Agora
Standup sessions: make a claim and defend it
http://pta.cnrs.fr/

French CNRS and seven partner institutions outside of France have 
created a network (called GDRI in the French jargon) designed to promote 
discussion around phonological theory: PTA (Phonological Theory Agora). 
PTA makes a number of assumptions that frame its activity:
1. both theories of symbolic representations and computation are needed
2. phonology and phonetics are distinct systems
3. demonstrations that are not based on corpus data and/or statistical 
relevance may be conclusive

 From 2015 to 2018, PTA organizes one conference a year (maybe among 
other things), which will be travelling to different cities. The first 
venue is Lublin / Poland, and will lean on the APAP conference that two 
Lublin Universities organize independently (http://www.apap.kul.pl/): 
APAP takes place on June 19th-21st, PTA continues on June 22nd-23rd.

Each PTA venue has a theme. Lublin is about the relationship between 
derivation and representation. In order to promote discussion, rather 
than professoral declamation, the basic conference format is 
standup-style: speakers make a claim and provide supporting argument (10 
min.), which is then discussed by the floor (20 min.). Before this 
session, the theme is introduced by a tutorial that reports relevant 
facs and views.
Submission of (short) one-page abstracts for claim-making standups is 
invited until April 15th, to be sent to ptaATcnrs.fr.
More information about the general setup of PTA and the Lublin venue is 
available at http://pta.cnrs.fr.

Tobias Scheer
(for the PTA team)

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