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AMP 2018 second call

Copied below is the second call for papers for AMP 2018, to take place October 5-7 in San Diego. Abstracts are due June 1!

Also, please note the possibility of a workshop on OTWorkplace uses & tools. If you’re curious, please fill out this form by the abstract deadline.

Sincerely,

— AMP 2018 organizers

Second Call for Papers

Annual Meeting on Phonology 2018


We are seeking high-quality unpublished research in all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational phonology for presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2018), to take place October 5-7, 2018 and hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of California, San Diego. We welcome submissions that address issues in the phonologies of spoken and/or signed languages. This is the sixth installment of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, following the 2013 inaugural meeting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and subsequent meetings hosted by MIT, UBC/SFU, USC, and NYU.

This year’s conference features a workshop entitled “Methods in phonological data collection and analysis of underdocumented languages,” with associated tutorials and invited speakers. We are particularly interested in high-quality research submissions that address the workshop theme. [Update: this workshop is made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation (BCS-1753985).]

Submission Guidelines

We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation. Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at least one inch (2.54cm) left on all sides. Abstracts must be submitted in .pdf file format.

Submissions are limited to three per author, with at most one submission being single-authored.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, June 1, 11:59pm PDT (23:59 GMT-7).

Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amp2018

Invited Speakers

Methods workshop tutorials

  • Underdocumented language data corpus construction
    (Gabriela Caballero, UC San Diego)
  • Electroglottography for voice analysis
    (Marc Garellek, UC San Diego)
  • Investigating underdocumented tone systems
    (Bert Remijsen, University of Edinburgh)

SPOT tutorial

SPOT (https://people.ucsc.edu/~jbellik/research/spot/interface1.html) is a web application which performs automatic candidate generation and constraint evaluation over prosodic parses of sentences. It is designed for use in conjunction with OTWorkplace (https://sites.google.com/site/otworkplace/), a tool for manipulating OT tableaux, determining rankings, and calculating factorial typologies.

In association with the SPOT tutorial, we are hoping to gather both experienced and novice OTWorkplace users to share OTWorkplace uses and tools. If you are interested in attending an OTWorkplace workshop at AMP 2018, please fill out the form at https://tinyurl.com/otworkplace-amp2018 by the abstract deadline.

Contact

All questions about the conference should be emailed to phonology@ucsd.edu.

Publication

All presentations (in both the general and workshop sessions) are eligible for publication in the open-access on-line conference proceedings hosted by the Linguistic Society of America. Oral presentations will appear in the main Proceedings and poster presentations will appear in the Supplemental Proceedings.

Sponsors

Financial support for AMP 2018 is provided by the UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences, and support for the Methods in phonological data collection and analysis of underdocumented languages workshop is provided by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1753985).

Merchant 2018: Supplemental Workbook to the Contours of nGY

Direct link: Version 2

ROA: 1343
Title: Supplemental Workbook to the Contours of nGY
Authors: Nazarre Merchant
Comment:
Length:
Abstract: This workbook provides all supplemental data for the nGY system presented in The Contours of nGY. The nGY system is an augmented nGX system — the core of nGX is retained: footing structures are either binary or mono-syllablic, the constraint set is identical except for the addition of MSL and MSR which adjudicate placement of the prosodic word head.

The nGY system has 36 languages. Basic density types are (roughly) retained: there are strongly dense (SD) languages in which all syllables are parsed into feet (12 languages are SD); there are weakly dense (WD) languages in which all syllables are parsed into feet except a single syllable in odd-length forms greater than two (12 languages are WD), and there is a class of sparse languages in which each form has either one or two feet depending on a given language’s properties (12 languages are sp). The sparse density type differs from nGX sparse in that nGX sparse languages only permit a single foot in any given form.

A full discussion of the property analysis of nGY is given in The Contours of nGY. This wookbook provides a definition of the system, constraints, violation tableaux, the factorial typology, the 36 grammars of nGY and the full typohedron of nGY along with sub-typohedra organized by density class.

Type: Other
Area/Keywords: Phonology, OT, Formal Analysis, Property Theory

Merchant 2018: The Contours of nGY

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1750_merchant_2.pdf

ROA: 1342
Title: The Contours of nGY
Authors: Nazarre Merchant
Comment:
Length: 27 pp
Abstract: The nGY system is an OT system that extends the nGX system with the addition of marking a single foot as the head of the prosodic word and with the addition of two constraints that target the head of the prosodic word (Main-foot-left and Main-foot-right). These additions yield a quantity insensitive footing system containing 36 languages. This paper provides a property analysis of the system delimiting a set of extensional traits and associated properties, meaning that each languages’s extensional traits are derived from property values that encode the ranking requirements of the language’s grammar.

The goal here is not merely to provide a complete accounting of the languages of nGY, but to understand the structure of more complex typologies and how they relate to simplified versions of themselves. This paper shows how the density classes of nGX (sparse, weakly dense, and strongly dense) lift into the more articulated nGY system and provide the central organizing framework for understanding the patterns of nGY.

Type: Paper/tech report
Area/Keywords: Phonology, OT, Formal Analysis, Property Theory

Workshop: Phonological variation ?and its interfaces

Abstract deadline June 1!

http://www.ub.edu/workshop_phonvar

About

Within the research project “Phonetics-phonology-morphology interface phenomena from the perspective of linguistic variation” (FFI2016-76245-C3-3-P), we are organizing a two-day workshop about phonological variation and its interfaces, which will be held at the University of Barcelona the 22 and 23 of November 2018. We specifically seek proposals dealing with phonological variation at the interface with phonetics and morphology, from any empirical and theoretical perspective. Contributions might answer, although not exclusively, to some of the following broad questions:??

  • Is there a factual interface between phonology and phonetics, and between phonology and morphology? Or are these independent components of the grammar? Which are the evidences for one approach or the other?
  • How do these three components interact? Are their interactions unidirectional or rather bidirectional?
  • How does phonological variation shed light on the interfaces phonology-phonetics / phonology-morphology?
  • To which extent morphological requirements constraint phonology and induce phonological variation?
  • Can prosodic requirements have an impact on morphology? What are the limits of this impact?

Invited speakers

Birgit Alber (Università di Verona)
Andries ?Coetzee (University of Michigan)

Call for papers

The workshop will feature talks (20-25 minutes, followed by 10-5 minutes for questions). Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair (please follow this link to submit your abstract) by June, 1, 2018. All abstracts will be reviewed by 3 anonymous reviewers.

Abstract guidelines

Maximum 1 page of A4 paper, and an extra page for references, examples, tables, and figures.
12 pt Times New Roman font, or similar.
One-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides.
Anonymous (please do not include author details).
PDF format.

Abstracts not following these guidelines will be rejected. Abstract submission, reviewing, and notification of acceptance will be handled using EasyChair.

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: June, 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July, 15, 2018
Program announcement: September, 15, 2018
Workshop days: November, 22-23, 2018 (University of Barcelona)

Registration and fees

Registration will be open from the end of September until November, 1, 2018.

More details will be posted closer to that time, but we anticipate that registration fees will be around €30 for waged attendees and €20 for student/unwaged attendees.
Organizing committee
Clàudia Pons-Moll, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona
?Josefina Carrera-Sabaté, Universitat de Barcelona
Jesús Jiménez, Universitat de València
Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Universitat de València
?Jesús Bach, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria Cabrera-Callís, Universitat de Barcelona
?Paula Cruselles, Universitat de València?

Scientific committee

Birgit Alber, Outi Bat-El, Ryan Bennett, Ricardo Bermúdez Otero, Eulàlia Bonet, Teresa Cabré, Stefano Canalis, Andries Coetzee, Stuart Davis, Laura Downing, Sara Finley, Juana Gil, Silke Hamann, Patrick Honeybone, José Ignacio Hualde, Pavel Iosad, Jesus Jimenez, Peter Jurgec, Yuni Kim, Martin Krämer, Nancy C. Kula, Paul de Lacy, Joaquim  Llisterri, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Joan Mascaró, Andrew Nevins, Heather  Newell, Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, Clàudia Pons Moll, Markus Pöchtrager, Pilar Prieto, Anthi Revithiadou, Tobias Scheer, Donca Steriade, Peter Szigetvari, Nina Topintzi, Miklós Törkenczy, Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Marc van Oostendorp, Marina Vigário, Sophie Wauquier, Eva Zimmerman

16th Old World Conference on Phonology OCP16 – Call for papers

The 16th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP16) will take place at the University of Verona, Italy, 16-18 January 2019.

Invited speakers:

– Will Bennett (University of Calgary)

– Ulrike Domahs (University of Marburg)

– Martin Krämer (UiT, Tromsø)

We welcome submissions on any topic in phonology. We invite abstracts for talks (20 minutes, followed 10 minutes of discussion) or posters. Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as first author (or sole author), and a maximum of two abstracts in total. Abstracts will be (blindly) peer-reviewed by an international panel of reviewers.

Abstract guidelines:

  • Maximum 2 pages of A4 paper, including references, examples, tables, and figures.
  • 12 pt Times New Roman font, or similar.
  • 2.54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides.
  • Anonymous
  • PDF format

Abstracts not following these guidelines will be rejected without review.

Abstract submission, reviewing, and notification of acceptance will be handled using EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocp16

The deadline for abstract submission is 16 September 2018

Notification of acceptance will be late October/early November

Conference webpagehttp://sites.hss.univr.it/ocp/

Conference e-mail: ocp16@ateneo.univr.it

Organizing committee

Birgit Alber (University of Verona)
Joachim Kokkelmans (University of Verona)
Barbara Vogt (University of Trieste)

Advisor to the organisers

Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam)

Program for “Elements. State of the Art and Perspectives”

From: elements.nantes2018@gmail.com

The program of the conference “Elements. State of the Art and Perspectives” (Nantes, 14-15 June 2018) has been published on our website : http://elementsnantes2018.wordpress.com/program/

The online registration will open soon.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Nantes

Laurence Voeltzel (on behalf of the organising committee)

***

Le programme de la conférence “Eléments. Bilan et perspectives”, qui se tiendra à Nantes les 14 et 15 juin 2018, est publié. Vous pouvez le consulter à l’adresse suivante : http://elementsnantes2018.wordpress.com/program/

La page d’inscription en ligne sera bientôt ouverte.

En espérant vous voir nombreux à Nantes.

Laurence Voeltzel (de la part du comité d’organisation)

Call for Papers: NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology

We are very pleased to announce the 5th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (NINJAL ICPP 2018), to be held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) on October 26-28, 2018. This three-day conference features the following two main topics:

?????(a)?sokuon, or geminate consonants??
?????(b)?accent, tone, and intonation

The following speakers have been invited to give talks on the topics.

Laura Downing (University of Gothenburg)

Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Yukari Hirata (Colgate University)

Junko Ito (UC Santa Cruz)

Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)

Bob Ladd (University of Edinburgh)

Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)

Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz)

Rachid Ridouane (CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Jaehyun Son (Duksung Women’s University)

We invite abstracts for poster presentations related to at least one of the two main topics. If it is related, any presentation is welcome, even if it is not concerned with Japanese. Abstracts on the interface between lexical accent/tone and intonation will be particularly welcome.

Rules for Abstract Submission:

–       The official language of the conference is English.

–       A single individual may submit only one abstract for which s/he is the sole or ?rst author.

–       Abstracts should be on A4 (or letter) size paper, typed on one side of the page only.

–       Leave margins of 2.5cm (1 inch) on all four sides of the page. Type in 12-point font.

–       Do not put your name or affiliation on your abstract. Abstracts must not exceed 1 page, inclusive of figures, tables, and references.

–       Please save your abstract both as a Word file [using the file name “ICPP2018_Your surname.docx” or “ICPP2018_Your surname.doc”] and as apdf file [using the file name “ICPP2018_Your surname.pdf”].

–       To submit your abstract, please send an e-mail message with both files attached toicpp2018@ninjal.ac.jp. Please write “ICPP abstract” in the subject line of your e-mail message.

–       The submission deadline is June 30, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be sent in July 2018.

Oral presentations will be by invitation only. We will not be accepting abstracts for oral presentations.

Financial Support:

For graduate students who are the sole or first author of a presentation, the organizers anticipate being able to cover transportation expenses within Japan and lodging expenses, at least in part, but please understand that all public institutions in Japan are facing budget reductions.

For more information, see our website: http://crosslinguistic-studies.ninjal.ac.jp/prosody/?page_id=587&lang=en

Please contact us at ICPP2018@ninjal.ac.jp if you have any questions.

Workshop: Phonological variation ?and its interfaces 

Workshop Phonological variation ?and its interfaces 

http://www.ub.edu/workshop_phonvar

About

Within the research project “Phonetics-phonology-morphology interface phenomena from the perspective of linguistic variation” (FFI2016-76245-C3-3-P), we are organizing a two-day workshop about phonological variation and its interfaces, which will be held at the University of Barcelona the 22 and 23 of November 2018. We specifically seek proposals dealing with phonological variation at the interface with phonetics and morphology, from any empirical and theoretical perspective. Contributions might answer, although not exclusively, to some of the following broad questions:?

  • Is there a factual interface between phonology and phonetics, and between phonology and morphology? Or are these independent components of the grammar? Which are the evidences for one approach or the other?
  • How do these three components interact? Are their interactions unidirectional or rather bidirectional?
  • How does phonological variation shed light on the interfaces phonology-phonetics / phonology-morphology?
  • To which extent morphological requirements constraint phonology and induce phonological variation?
  • Can prosodic requirements have an impact on morphology? What are the limits of this impact?

Invited speakers

Birgit Alber (Università di Verona)
Andries ?Coetzee (University of Michigan)

Call for papers

The workshop will feature talks (20-25 minutes, followed by 10-5 minutes for questions). Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair (please follow this link to submit your abstract) by June, 1, 2018. All abstracts will be reviewed by 3 anonymous reviewers.

Abstract guidelines

Maximum 1 page of A4 paper, and an extra page for references, examples, tables, and figures.
12 pt Times New Roman font, or similar.
One-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides.
Anonymous (please do not include author details).
PDF format.

Abstracts not following these guidelines will be rejected. Abstract submission, reviewing, and notification of acceptance will be handled using EasyChair.

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: June, 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July, 15, 2018
Program announcement: September, 15, 2018
Workshop days: November, 22-23, 2018 (University of Barcelona)

Registration and fees

Registration will be open from the end of September until November, 1, 2018.
More details will be posted closer to that time, but we anticipate that registration fees will be around €30 for waged attendees and €20 for student/unwaged attendees.
Organizing committee
Clàudia Pons-Moll, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona
?Josefina Carrera-Sabaté, Universitat de Barcelona
Jesús Jiménez, Universitat de València
Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Universitat de València
?Jesús Bach, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria Cabrera-Callís, Universitat de Barcelona
?Paula Cruselles, Universitat de València?

Scientific committee

Birgit Alber, Outi Bat-El, Ryan Bennett, Ricardo Bermúdez Otero, Eulàlia Bonet, Teresa Cabré, Stefano Canalis, Andries Coetzee, Stuart Davis, Laura Downing, Sara Finley, Juana Gil, Silke Hamann, Patrick Honeybone, José Ignacio Hualde, Pavel Iosad, Jesus Jimenez, Peter Jurgec, Yuni Kim, Martin Krämer, Nancy C. Kula, Paul de Lacy, Joaquim  Llisterri, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Joan Mascaró, Andrew Nevins, Heather  Newell, Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, Clàudia Pons Moll, Markus Pöchtrager, Pilar Prieto, Anthi Revithiadou, Tobias Scheer, Donca Steriade, Peter Szigetvari, Nina Topintzi, Miklós Törkenczy, Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Marc van Oostendorp, Marina Vigário, Sophie Wauquier, Eva Zimmerman

ETAP4 deadline May 14th

Submission deadline: May 14, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE (anywhere on earth).

Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website
(https://easychair.org/cfp/ETAP4)

The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4)
conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference
focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and
characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in
linguistics, psychology, and computer science.

The theme of ETAP4 is “Sociolectal and dialectal variability in
prosody.” As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused
on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in
social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody
research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as
well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The
conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers
exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus
on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual
differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i)
raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic
research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do
research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their
experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and
endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in
science.

A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held
on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute
common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources
and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic
transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail
list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/

We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the
conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from
diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational
modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:

– Phonology and phonetics of prosody
– Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
– Tone and intonation
– Acquisition of prosody
– Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics
– Prosody in natural language processing

In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional
talks, and two poster sessions.

Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format.
Your abstract must include the submission’s title at the top, and must
not include authors’ names and affiliations, or any identifying
information (i.e., “In Liberman & Pierrehumbert (1984), we
showed…“). Abstracts should be submitted in letter format (8.5″ x
11″ – not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point
font. The abstract itself (text) may be no longer than one page; a
second page containing additional figures, tables, other graphics
and/or references may be included.

To get updates on the conference, subscribe to the e-mail list here:
https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4

Lionnet 2018: A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1736_florian_lionnet_1.pdf

ROA: 1341
Title: A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal
Authors: Florian Lionnet
Comment:
Length:
Abstract: This paper introduces “subfeatural representations” to capture subphonemic distinctions below the featural level, on the basis of partial effects found in a type of multiple-trigger process: “phonological teamwork”. The unusual case of Laal is presented, in which rounding harmony requires two triggers: a round vowel, and a labial consonant. The coarticulatory effect of the labial consonant is shown, on the basis of instrumental evidence, to incur a distinctive, but non-contrastive, intermediate level of rounding on the target vowel, which is analyzed as being featurally [-round], but subfeaturally [[x round]] (0<x<1). [[x round]]vowels are shown to form a separate natural class that can be independently targeted by phonological processes. Subfeatural representations are argued to constitute an advantageous reification of phonetic knowledge, forming a more solid basis for phonetically driven models of phonology. This proposal builds on the insights of previous literature that perceptual representations are needed in phonology, while eschewing the need for direct reference to phonetics.
Type: Paper/tech report
Area/Keywords: Phonology, Subfeature, Suphonemic, Gradient, Representation, Harmony, Phonetic Grounding