CALL FOR PAPERS
Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
26-28 MAY 2005
Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2005
Special session: 'What is a phonological fact?' (featuring Juliette Blevins, Bruce Hayes, Charles Reiss)
Held in Manchester, UK; organised through a collaboration of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Universite Toulouse-Le Mirail, the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery and elsewhere.
Conference website: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html
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BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting (13mfm). The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference; it is held in late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK and easily accessible from the whole of the country, and with excellent international transport connections), and is organised by people in various parts of the country, and abroad. For the past twelve years, this meeting has been a key conference for phonologists from all corners of the world, where anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological description of a wide variety 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, following the success of such sessions in previous years, a special themed session has been organised, entitled 'What is a phonological fact?'. This will feature invited speakers and conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome. Abstracts which attempt to answer this question (from any
perspective) are certainly also welcome.
SPECIAL SESSION SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
* Juliette Blevins (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
* Bruce Hayes (UCLA, USA)
* Charles Reiss (Concordia University, Canada)
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
**This is a summary - please consult the website for full details**
*www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html*
* There is no obligatory conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything. Abstracts should be sent to Patrick Honeybone as attachments to an email ([log in to unmask]) by 28th February 2005.
* Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12, and with normal character spacing.
* Please send two copies of your abstract - one of these should be anonymous and one should include your name, affiliation and email at the top of the page, directly below the title. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by members of the organising committee and advisory board.
* Please use one of these formats for your abstract: pdf, Word, rtf, or plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, either embed it in a pdf file, or use the SIL IPA93 Doulos font, which can be downloaded for free from this site:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa.
* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 10 minutes for questions, and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a half hours. Please indicate whether you would prefer to present your work as an oral paper or a poster, or whether you would be prepared to present it in either form.
* If you need technical equipment for your talk, please say so in the message accompanying your abstract and we will do our best to provide it, although this cannot be guaranteed.
* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by late March. At present, there are no plans for publishing the general proceedings of the Meeting. We would like to keep the mfm as an informal forum where speakers can air new ideas which are still in the early stages of development.
**Further important details** concerning abstract submission are available on the conference website - please make sure that you consult these before submitting an abstract: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html
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ORGANISERS
Organising Committee:
The first named is the convenor and main organiser - if you would like to attend or if you have any queries about the conference, please feel free to get in touch with me ([log in to unmask], or phone +44
(0)131 651 1838).
* Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (Manchester)
* Philip Carr (Montpellier-Paul Valery)
* Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail)
* Nigel Vincent (Manchester)
Advisory Board:
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Mike Davenport (Durham)
* Daniel L. Everett (Manchester)
* Paul Foulkes (York)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* John Harris (UCL)
* Martin Krämer (Tromso)
* Ken Lodge (UEA)
* April McMahon (Sheffield/Edinburgh)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
* Glyne Piggott (McGill)
* Curt Rice (Tromso)
* Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice)
* James M Scobbie (QMUC)
* Dan Silverman
* Marilyn M. Vihman (Bangor)
* Moira Yip (UCL)
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