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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)

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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)

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:?
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  • 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, chair, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona
Jesús Jiménez, Universitat de València
Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Universitat de València
Jesús Bach, Universitat de Barcelona
Paula Cruselles, Universitat de València?

AMP 2018 announcement

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The Linguistics Department at UC San Diego is pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) will be held on October 5-7, 2018 in San Diego, CA, USA.
We invite abstracts for presentations on all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational phonology. The conference will feature a fully integrated workshop entitled “Methods in phonological data collection and analysis of underdocumented languages,” for which abstracts for presentations are especially welcome.
Updated information will be available at http://phonology.ucsd.edu/.
Invited speakers
  • Junko Ito and Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College)
  • Bert Remijsen (University of Edinburgh)
Tutorials
  • Investigating underdocumented tone systems
    (Bert Remijsen, University of Edinburgh)
  • Electroglottography for voice analysis
    (Marc Garellek, UC San Diego)
  • Underdocumented language data corpus construction
    (Gabriela Caballero, UC San Diego)
Important dates
  • April 2, 2018: Call for papers
  • June 1, 2018: Abstracts due for both the main session and the workshop
  • July 27, 2018: Notification of acceptance, registration opens
  • August 13, 2018: Program available
  • October 5-7, 2018: AMP conference
  • February 15, 2019: Proceedings submission deadline

NAPhCX Call for Papers

NAPhCX
Tenth North American Phonology Conference
Concordia University, Montreal
May 4-5, 2018
https://naphcx.wixsite.com/main

The Linguistics Program at Concordia University, Montreal will once again host the biennial North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC) May 4-5, 2018. For NAPhCX, our tenth iteration since 2000, we again invite abstracts on phonological representation and computation from an internalist, nativist, symbol-processing perspective.

Invited speakers:
Veno Volenec (Zagreb)
Keren Rice (Toronto)
Markus Pöchtrager (Wien)
Christina Bjorndahl (Cornell/Carnegie-Mellon)
Iris Berent (Northeastern)
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Abstract Guidelines
Deadline: March 1, 2018
Format: PDF file
Length: 2-5 pages
Submission by email to cognitivescience@concordia.ca
Anonymous abstract–In message give name and affiliation of author(s) (alphabetically)

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Results will be sent out by March 10, 2018. Talks will be 40 minutes including questions. Some abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation.

Charles Reiss for the NAPhCX Committee: cognitivescience@concordia.ca

Call for papers: Twenty-Sixth Manchester Phonology Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty-Sixth Manchester Phonology Meeting

24-26 MAY 2018

Deadline for abstracts: 19 February 2018

Conference website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/26mfm.html

Special session: ‘SPE at 50: what remains?’

The special session will feature the invited speakers listed (in alphabetical order) below and will conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome.

Invited speakers:

* Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
* David Odden (Ohio State University)
* Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of Michigan and Simon Fraser University)

Invited discussant:
* Joan Mascaro (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

The conference will be held at Hulme Hall, Manchester, England, and is organised through a collaboration of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and elsewhere.

* There will also be a FRINGE workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd May, timed to coincide with the mfm, on ‘Phonological Solutions to Morphological Problems’, organised by Heather Newell and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

* This mentions only a few details – please consult the website for full information:
– http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/26mfm.html

* There is no obligatory conference theme for the 26mfm – abstracts can be submitted on anything phonological.

* Abstracts should be uploaded to the 26mfm’s page on the EasyAbstracts site by 19th February 2018:
– http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/26mfm

* 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 mid to 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/26mfm.html
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

LabPhon 16 satellite workshop call: The role of predictability in shaping human sound systems

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From seyfarth.2@osu.edu

Website and call for papers: http://labphon16.labphon.org/se-05.html
Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2018

Message-oriented accounts of phonetic and phonological variation propose that speakers expend resources in order to increase phonetic robustness when their intended message is unpredictable (e.g., Hall et al., 2016; see also Lindblom, 1990; Aylett & Turk, 2004; Stevens & Keyser, 2006). Within this general framework, predictability and resource cost are operationalized in diverse and sometimes imprecise ways. The goal of this workshop is to encourage discussion and idea exchange that lead to shared understandings of the concepts of predictability and cost in phonological research.

The workshop will be organized around two themed roundtables, which are each preceded by 15-minute talks that provide material for broader discussion of the theme. The first session addresses how predictability can be assessed, and the second session addresses how resource cost can be defined using explicit psychological, phonological, and physiological measures. Each theme involves a range of questions, and specific topics for the roundtable discussions will be chosen based on the submitted abstracts.

Theme 1: Defining and measuring predictability.

How can phonological predictability be assessed? Some possibilities include: the in-context probability of a specific phonological unit or message, the uncertainty associated with incremental comprehension or production, and the contrastiveness of a unit in the phonological system. How do different measures lead to different quantifiable expectations about communicative behavior or phonological patterns? How can different measures of predictability be linked to specific mechanisms in speech production or perception, and how do these measures and mechanisms interact?

Theme 2: Defining and measuring production cost.

Many communication-oriented accounts assume that speakers seek an efficient balance between communicative robustness and production cost, but production cost is often not quantified. What are ways of explicitly defining or measuring phonological resource cost? Some possibilities include: indices of cognitive load during production, planning costs or phonological/lexical competition in speech production models, usage of attentional or memory resources, articulatory coordination costs, and metabolic costs.

Format and schedule

Abstracts are invited on research related to one of the themes. Abstracts may be up to 1000 words and should contain all key methodological details. About three abstracts per theme will be selected for oral presentations, and all accepted abstracts will be circulated in advance of the workshop. Each presenter is asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation (plus 5 minutes for questions and transition) in which they explicitly contextualize their research in the discussion topic. The presentations will be followed by a 40-minute roundtable discussion of the theme, with a break between sessions. The workshop may include a short poster session, depending on the number of submitted abstracts.

Workshop date: June 23, 2018 (main conference June 19-22)
Location: Universidade de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal

RFP 2018 – 16th annual conference of the French Phonology Network / Réseau Français de Phonologie

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From Francesc Torres-Tamarit (e-mail: francescjosep.torres@gmail.com)

RFP 2018 – 16th annual conference of the French Phonology Network / Réseau Français de Phonologie

The French Phonology Network (Réseau français de phonologie) is launching a call for papers for its 2018 annual conference (http://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/rfp-2018). The 2018 edition will take place from 27th to 29th of June in Paris (at the Centre CNRS Pouchet / Université Paris 8, France) and will be organized by the Laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL, UMR 7023 / Université Paris 8).

The keynote speakers will be

– Mirjam Ernestus, Professor in psycholinguistics (Université Radboud de Nimègue)
– Gillian Gallagher, Associate professor in linguistics (Université de New York)
– Nancy Kula, Professor of linguistics (Université d’Essex)
– Mary Paster, Associate professor in linguistics and cognitive science (Pomona College, California)

Main session

Submissions from any school or theoretical framework of phonology are welcome. Topics of interest may relate to phonology in general or in specific language, in synchronic or in diachronic dimensions. Issues focusing on phonology and its interfaces, descriptive and formal phonology, experimental phonology and phonological modeling are awaited.

Thematic sessions

This year’s conference, we especially encourage submissions focusing on the two following topics:
Workshop 1 – The Phonology of the Lesser-Known Languages and of Endangered Languages. Documentary and Theoretical Approaches
Workshop 2 – Acquisition of the Lesser-Known Languages

Abstract submission and review

Abstracts can be written in either French or English. Abstracts should not exceed two pages in length (A4 pages, TimesNewRoman or similar, size 11, single-spaced), including references, tables and figures. Please send your abstract in .pdf format to the Easychair system at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rfp2018. Specify whether you want your abstract to be considered only for a talk in the main session or in one of the two thematic sessions.
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least two referees.

Important dates

Call for papers: December 2017
Deadline for submission: March 2nd 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 30th 2018
Conference: June 27th-29th 2018

Location of the conference

The conference will take in the CNRS Pouchet in Paris (voir carte dans informations pratiques).

Scientific committee

J.-P. Angoujard (U. de Nantes, PR) B. Laks (U. Paris 10, PR)
X. Barillot (U. de Nice, MCF) N. Lampitelli (U. de Tours, MCF)
J.-M. Beltzung (U. de Nantes, MCF) J.-L. Léonard (U. Paris 4, PR)
S. Bendjaballah (U. de Nantes, DR) J. Lowenstamm (U. Paris 7, PR)
G. Bergounioux (U. d’Orléans, PR) X. Luo (U. d’Orléans, Post-doc)
J. Brandao de Carvalho (U. Paris 8, PR) N. Nguyen (U. d’Aix-Marseille, PR)
J. Bucci (U. de Grenoble Alpes, Post-doc) R. Noske (U. Lille 3, MCF)
E. Caratini (U. de Poitiers, MCF) D. Passino (U. de Nice, PR)
C. Dos Santos (U. de Tours, MCF) C. Patin (U. Lille 3, MCF)
J. Dufour (U. de Strasbourg, MCF) A. Rialland (U. Paris 3, DR)
J. Durand (U. Toulouse 2, PR) O. Rizzolo (U. de Nice, MCF))
R. Fathi (U. de Nantes, Post-doc) M. Russo (U. Lyon 3, PR)
N. Faust (U. Paris 8, MCF) T. Scheer (U. de Nice, DR)
S. Ferré (U. de Tours, MCF) Ph. Ségéral (U. Paris 7, MCF)
J.-M. Fournier (U. de Tours, PR) A. Tifrit (U. de Nantes, MCF)
D. Le Gac (U. de Rouen, MCF) F. Torres-Tamarit (U. Paris 8, CR)
S. Herment (U. d’Aix-Marseille, PR) N. Trapateau (U. de Nice, MCF)
M. D’Imperio (U. d’Aix-Marseille, PR) S. Ulfsbjorninn (U. Lyon 3, Post-doc)
H. Jacobs (U. Radboud (NL), PR) N. Vallée (U. de Grenoble Alpes, CR)
A. Jatteau (U. de Lille, ATER) S. Wauquier (U. Paris 8, PR)
L. Labrune (U. Bordeaux 3, PR) N. Yamaguchi (U. Paris 3, MCF)
M. Lahrouchi (U. Paris 8, CR)  

Organizing committee

– Noam Faust (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Michela Russo (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Francesc Torres-Tamarit (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Sophie Wauquier (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)

Advisory board

– Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Alex Cristia (LSCP / ENS Paris)
– Mohamed Lahrouchi (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Giorgio Magri (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Rachid Ridouane (LPP, UMR 7018)
– Naomi Yamaguchi (LPP, UMR 7018)
– Lolke van de Velde (ASLAN/ DDL UMR 5596, CNRS)

Postdocs

– Laetitia de Almeida (ASLAN / DDL UMR 5596, CNRS)
– Adèle Jatteau (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Benjamin Storme (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)
– Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (SFL UMR 7023 CNRS)

Practical informations

Contact: rfp2018@cnrs.fr

Elements [Second call] / Eléments [Deuxième appel]

From: elements.nantes2018@gmail.com

*French version below*
The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes) launches a conference dedicated to Element Theory in Nantes, June 14-15 2018.
The aim of this event is to provide an overview and to open new perspectives in this research program. In doing so, we would like to open discussions regarding the phonological framework(s) that use unary primes, with a particular focus on:

– the relation with phonetics,
– the head/dependent status,
– the asymetries among primitives,
– the possible operations and
– the expansion or diminution of the element set required to characterize segments.

The above mentioned topics are open and we invite the participants to provide thoughts and criticism about the general axis we propose. There are obviously more questions that can be addressed regarding ET and we encourage any contribution that falls within this scope.

This conference aims at bringing together linguists from various areas and is not restricted to theoretical phonology. This is addressed to researchers that wish to present new topics regarding ET, but also to those who are not familiar with the most recent developments within Elements Theory and are looking for an extensive overview.

We will have the pleasure to welcome the following invited speakers:

  • Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University)
  • Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
  • Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
  • Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
  • Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)

The detailed version of the call is on our website: http://elementsnantes2018.wordpress.com

The anonymized abstracts should be sent to elements.nantes2018@gmail.com and should not exceed 2 single-spaced pages (references and figures included), font size 12.

The important dates are:

  • 29 January 2018: deadline for submitting an abstract
  • 9 April 2018: notification to authors
  • 14-15 June 2018: Conference

The scientific committee is:

  • Jean-Pierre Angoujard (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
  • Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University)
  • Sabrina Bendjaballah (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
  • Jean-Marc Beltzung (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
  • Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho (University of Paris 8)
  • Monik Charette (SOAS University of London)
  • Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
  • Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
  • Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø)
  • Nancy Kula (University of Essex)
  • Jean Lowenstamm (University of Paris 7)
  • Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University)
  • Hitomi Onuma (Iwate Medical University / Tohoku Gakuin University)
  • Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
  • Krisztina Polgárdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Tobias Scheer (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
  • Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University)
  • Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)
  • Péter Szigetvári (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Ali Tifrit (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
  • Nathalie Vallée (GIPSA Lab)
  • Laurence Voeltzel (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)

Organizing Committee :

LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes

  • Sabrina Bendjaballah
  • Ali Tifrit
  • Laurence Voeltzel
For more information:
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Le Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes) organise une conférence dédiée à la Théorie des Elements (ET), qui aura lieu les 14 et 15 juin 2018 à Nantes.
L’objectif est d’établir un bilan et d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives dans ce programme de recherche, en interrogeant le(s) modèle(s) phonologique(s) qui manipule(nt) des primitives unaires sur :

– la relation avec la phonétique,
– le statut tête/dépendant;
– les asymétries entre les primitives,
– les opérations et
– la limitation ou l’extension du nombre de primitives disponibles.

Les sujets mentionnés ci-dessus sont ouverts et nous invitons les participants à proposer une réflexion et des critiques portant sur ces axes généraux, ainsi que toute autre question qui relève d’ET.

Cette conférence a pour but d’accueillir des chercheurs d’horizons variés et ne se restreint pas à la phonologie théorique. L’événement s’adresse aux chercheurs qui souhaitent présenter de nouvelles problématiques dans le cadre de la Théorie des Eléments, mais également à ceux qui ne sont pas familiers avec les développements les plus récents d’ET et qui souhaiteraient acquérir une vue d’ensemble de ces modèles.

Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir comme invités :

  • Phillip Backley (Université Tohoku Gakuin)
  • Elan Dresher (Université de Toronto)
  • Harry van der Hulst (Université du Connecticut)
  • Markus Pöchtrager (Université de Vienne)
  • Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)

La version complète du call est disponible sur notre site : http://elementsnantes2018.wordpress.com

Les résumés sont à envoyer par mel à elements.nantes2018@gmail.com, sous la forme d’un fichier pdf anonyme, interligne simple, police taille 12, n’excédant pas deux pages (références et figures incluses), en anglais.
Les dates à retenir sont :

  • 29 janvier : date limite pour l’envoi des résumés
  • 9 avril : notification aux auteurs
  • 14-15 juin : conférence

Comité scientifique :

  • Jean-Pierre Angoujard (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
  • Phillip Backley (Université Tohoku Gakuin)
  • Sabrina Bendjaballah (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
  • Jean-Marc Beltzung (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
  • Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho (Université Paris 8)
  • Monik Charette (SOAS Université de Londres)
  • Elan Dresher (Université de Toronto)
  • Harry van der Hulst (Université du Connecticut)
  • Martin Krämer (Université de Tromsø)
  • Nancy Kula (Université d’Essex)
  • Jean Lowenstamm (Université Paris 7)
  • Kuniya Nasukawa (Université Tohoku Gakuin)
  • Hitomi Onuma (Université Iwate / Université Tohoku Gakuin)
  • Markus Pöchtrager (Université de Vienne)
  • Krisztina Polgárdi (Académie hongroise des sciences)
  • Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
  • Geoff Schwartz (Université Adam Mickiewicz)
  • Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)
  • Péter Szigetvári (Université Eötvös Loránd)
  • Ali Tifrit (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
  • Nathalie Vallée (GIPSA Lab)
  • Laurence Voeltzel (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)

Comité d’organisation :

LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes

    • Sabrina Bendjaballah
    • Ali Tifrit
  • Laurence Voeltzel

Pour plus d’information :

SCiL schedule and abstracts available

The schedule and abstracts for the inaugural meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, to be held concurrently with the LSA annual meeting Jan. 4-7 in Salt Lake City, can be found here: https://websites.umass.edu/phonolist/files/2017/11/scil-schedule.pdf. It will include a special workshop on Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60, and the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics meeting will also be held with SCiL.