The 15th
Manchester Phonology Meeting
Manchester Phonology Meeting
This is an archive page; this conference occurred in May 2007.
The site for the 16mfm is available here.
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The 15th
Manchester Phonology Meeting |
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With a special session
entitled...
featuring Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, Mirjam Ernestus,
John McCarthy and Glyne Piggott |
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Thursday 24th -
Saturday 26th May 2007
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Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester
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Organised through a collaboration of phonologists
at the University of
Edinburgh, the University
of Manchester, the Universite
Toulouse-Le Mirail, the Universite
Montpellier-Paul Valery and elsewhere.
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programme + info
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registration + booking ||
special session
The full programme for the 15mfm is available here (with details about the venue and evening meals and such things).
[You can read about the mfm abstract selection process here (this link takes you to part of the FAQ on the mfm homepage).]
The abstract booklet is available here [NB: this is rather a large file - 7 MB].
The list of participants is available here.
Notes for poster-presenters: The
poster displays will be set up on the evening before the poster
session that you are scheduled for. You will have a space
of about 5' (wide) x 3'9" (high) (152 cm wide x 114 cm high) for your poster. Each
person presenting a poster will be provided with the means
to affix their posters to the display board. Please feel free
to bring handouts with you, so that those viewing your poster also have
something to take away. Posters in previous years have taken a wide variety of forms, and there
is no one single way to produce a good poster; the important things are that
the font size is not too small, that it is easily readable and does not have too much text on it, that it sets out
the main points that you want to argue for clearly, and maybe that it's eye
catching, too. Some presenters bring one big poster which takes up all the
space, others bring a series of A3 or A4 sheets of paper which can be fitted
together on the poster board. During your poster session, you will be asked to
stand by your poster (for at least a fair amount of the session) as conference
participants walk around the displays, read your posters and ask you questions
about them.
No more bookings can now be taken.
Some of you will probably also want to stay in Manchester during the evening of Saturday (26th). For those that do, it might be nice to meet up for a post-conference meal. Jill Beckman has kindly agreed to organise a trip to a restaurant for the Saturday evening - this will be to Genghis Khan's Stir Fry Restaurant in the centre of Manchester. For anyone who would like to come along, please email Jill (jill-beckman@uiowa.edu) by *May 16th* at the latest, and she will book a table. You will need to pay for this separately and it cannot be booked using the booking form.
Detailed information on accommodation possibilities and on how to get to the conference (with a selection of maps) are provided on separate pages:
Special session
A special themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon by
members of the organising committee and the advisory board. This will
feature invited speakers and will conclude in an open discussion
session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome. The speakers at the session (in alphabetical order) are:
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester)
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts)
Glyne Piggott (McGill University)
Where in the grammar do allomorphic alternations originate? The past few decades have witnessed extreme differences of opinion in the answer to this question: whereas SPE set itself the task of deriving as much allomorphy as possible by means of phonological rules, functionalist models emphasize pattern association in the lexicon. In practice, many phonologists assume a fine-grained taxonomy of alternations, where some arise in the lexicon, some are generated by morphological processes, and some are triggered by phonological constraints. However, this position requires one to formulate explicit demarcation criteria, which typically shift in line with one's phonological assumptions. Within the generative paradigm, for example, the rise of Optimality Theory has changed the division of labour between phonology and morphology: if phonology is constrained not only by formal principles (e.g. locality) but also by naturalness requirements (i.e. markedness), the province of morphology would appear to expand. But have phonologists paid enough attention to the other side of the interface? Are their working assumptions about morphology tenable?
Morphological and syntactic conditions on phonological processes pose further questions. Lexical Phonology and Morphology relies on the cycle and Bracket Erasure to restrict the availability of morphological information in the phonology. This is supplemented with further restrictions such as the Indirect Reference Hypothesis, which, at the postlexical level, allows syntax to influence phonology only by conditioning phonological phrasing. In parallelist versions of Optimality Theory, in contrast, it has typically been assumed that all grammatical structure is simultaneously accessible to phonology. In this context, the task of limiting the uses to which the phonology can put this grammatical information devolves upon the theory of CON. Has there been progress in this area?
Another point of contention is the role of paradigms in controlling allomorphy. Both Lexical Morphology and Distributed Morphology deny the existence of paradigms as linguistic primitives, and assert that the computation of the phonological form of a linguistic expression is solely conditioned by the internal grammatical structure of that expression. In contrast, parallelist versions of OT and usage-based approaches assign an irreducible role to relationships of transderivational correspondence within paradigms. What are the arguments for and against each of these positions?
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
(patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk, or phone +44 (0)131 651 1838).
Patrick
Honeybone (University
of Edinburgh)
Ricardo
Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester)
Philip Carr
(Universite
de Montpellier-Paul Valery / ERSS, Toulouse-Le
Mirail )
Jacques
Durand (Universite
de Toulouse-Le Mirail)
Advisory Board
Jill
Beckman (Iowa)
Bert Botma (Leiden)
Mike Davenport (Durham)
Daniel
L. Everett (Illinois State)
Paul
Foulkes (York)
S.J.
Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
John
Harris (UCL)
Kristine A.
Hildebrandt (Manchester)
Martin
Kramer (Tromso)
Ken
Lodge (UEA)
Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz)
Marc
van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
Glyne
Piggott (McGill)
Curt
Rice (Tromso)
Catherine
O. Ringen (Iowa)
Tobias Scheer
(Nice)
James M.
Scobbie (QMUC)
Daniel Silverman (McGill)
Marilyn
M. Vihman (York)
Moira
Yip (UCL)
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by the department of
Linguistics and English Language at the University of
Edinburgh.
Page created by Patrick
Honeybone
Last updated May 2007