[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Call: Twenty-Fifth Manchester Phonology Meeting

[Kristine Hildebrandt]

Please share with any other interested parties. Note the special session on
typology and phonological theory.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Twenty-Fifth Manchester Phonology Meeting

25-27 MAY 2017

Deadline for abstracts: 1st March 2017

Special session: 'Typology and Phonological Theory', featuring:
* Birgit Alber (Universita di Verona)
* Juliette Blevins (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
* Mark Donohue (Australian National University)

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

Conference website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/25mfm.html

* There will be a wine party on the evening on the 25th May to celebrate
the fact that this is the 25th (!) mfm.

* There will also be a FRINGE workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday 24th
May, timed to coincide with the mfm, organised by the Phonological Theory
Agora: http://pta.cnrs.fr

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BACKGROUND

We are pleased to announce the Twenty-Fifth Manchester Phonology Meeting
(23mfm). 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

There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything, but
a special themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon, entitled
'Typology and phonological theory'. This will feature the invited speakers
listed (in alphabetical order) above and will conclude in an open
discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very
welcome.

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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/25mfm.html

* There is no obligatory conference theme for the 25mfm - 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 25mfm's page on the
EasyAbstracts site by 1st March 2017:
- http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/25-mfm

* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for
questions, and there will be high-profile poster sessions 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 either as a talk or a
poster paper or only as a poster.

* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by late
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/25mfm.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)
* Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)

Treasurer
* Michael Ramsammy (Edinburgh)

Advisory Board:
* Adam Albright (MIT)
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Stuart Davis (Indiana)
* Laura J. Downing (Gothenburg)
* Silke Hamann (Amsterdam)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois)
* Martin Kramer (Tromso)
* Nancy Kula (Essex)
* Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)
* Nabila Louriz (Hassan II, Casablanca)
* Joan Mascaro (UAB)
* Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens & Leiden)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice)
* James M. Scobbie (QMU)
* Jennifer L. Smith (UNC)
* Patrycja Strycharczuk (Manchester)
* Nina Topintzi (Thessaloniki)
* Jochen Trommer (Leipzig)
* Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Paris 8)
* Christian Uffmann (Duesseldorf)
* Ruben van de Vijver (Duesseldorf)
* Sophie Wauquier (Paris 8)
* Draga Zec (Cornell)
* Elizabeth Zsiga (Georgetown)

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Orche
('Thanks' in Manange)

*Kristine A. Hildebrandt*
*Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
<http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/>*

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