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…

From Savithry Namboodiripad Dear friends and colleagues, Please complete and share in your departments this short anonymous survey about your experiences in linguistics and related fields — we want to hear from researchers at all stages of their careers, from all…

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1722_ayoub_loutfi_1.pdf ROA: 1335 Title: Morphological Causatives in Moroccan Arabic Authors: Ayoub Loutfi Comment: Length: 26 pp. Abstract: In Moroccan Arabic, morphologically-derived causatives are uniformly formed through the affixation of a consonantal mora in an infixed position. Two accounts have…

Pre-aspiration: manual on acoustic analyses 1.1 Michaela Hejná direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003184 October 2016 The last 15 years have seen an increase of interest in analyses of pre-aspiration. This work presents a manual that provides advice on how to carry out acoustic…

A symposium on The role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns will be held in conjunction with the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016) this December in Sydney. Please see the call for papers at: http://sst2016.westernsydney.edu.au/index.php/predictability-symposium/  

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Cristia, Alejandrina. 2016: Getting a handle on variation in infant laboratory research: A forward approach. Retrieved from http://bootphon.blogspot.com/2016/01/getting-handle-on-variation-in-infant.html. January 8, 2016. Comments on the blog post, or the related paper “Infant artificial phonology learning: A meta-analytic approach” available here: https://osf.io/fm4qz/, can be made…

From Rutgers Optimality Archive, Dec. 23, 2015. Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1499_alderete_1.pdf ROA: 1265 Title: Updating the analysis of Japanese compound accent Authors: John Alderete Comment: In Short ‘schrift for Alan Prince, compiled by Eric Baković Length: 5 pgs Abstract: Antepenultimacy has long…