Background
Given that there are
always lots of phonologists in Manchester the day before the Manchester
Phonology Meeting (the 'mfm') starts, we thought that we
could make use of this to hold a workshop on an aspect of phonological
theory that we're interested in. Bert
Botma and Patrick
Honeybone had the idea, and we contacted a few people who we
knew were due to attend the 20mfm (and who we know are also interested
in this aspect of phonology), to see if they agreed. They did, so we've
arranged this workshop together. It's not part of the mfm - it's just
taking advantage of it to set up a workshop, and everyone is welcome to
attend.
Topic
We're calling this a
'Workshop on Segmental Architecture', and by that we mean the branch of
phonological theory which deals with (sub)segmental representation,
geometry, autosegmentalism, privativity (or the lack of it) -
that kind of thing. It typically addresses questions such as 'what is
the inventory of subsegmental units?', 'what are their properties?',
'how are they organised?', and 'how do subsegmental units map onto
skeletal slots?'. We all share the opinion that formal work on these
issues is important, but we disagree about some of the details, and we
hope that this workshop will both (i) flag up productive areas of
agreement and (ii) allow us to argue about our disagreements in public
(and we're hoping for input from the audience, too, of course).
Speakers
Speakers will each have around 25 minutes to speak, with time for questions and discussion afterwards.- Bert Botma (Leiden) and Hidetoshi Shiraishi (Sapporo Gakuin)
- Asymmetries and attractors in Nivkh vowel sequences
- Janet Grijzenhout (Konstanz)
- The phonological representations of sibilant sounds in Dutch, English, Frisian and German
- Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
- Affricates are contour segments: evidence from morpheme-edge epenthesis in Serbo-Croat and English
- Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin)
- Segmental complexity through recursion
- Markus Pöchtrager (Bogazici)
- Deconstructing A
Attending
It's free to attend the
workshop, and no registration is necessary. The workshop will start at
3pm and should be finished by 6pm, with each speaker getting around 25
minutes to talk, and time for discussion. It will be held in a room at
the University of Manchester, which is close to Hulme Hall (where the
mfm will be held), but it's not the same place - Hulme Hall is about
ten minutes' walk away. This is where the workshop will be held:
- Lecture Theatre B (G07) in the Zochonis building