<OT> Final call: 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting

[Patrick Honeybone]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Twelfth Manchester Phonology Meeting

20-22 MAY 2004

Deadline for abstracts: Sunday 15 February 2004

Special session: 'Phonology and Loanword Adaptation' (featuring Michael
Kenstowicz, Carole Paradis, Moira Yip)

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/12mfm.html

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BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Twelfth Manchester Phonology Meeting
(12mfm). The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference, held in late
May every year in Manchester and organised by people in various parts of
the country, and abroad. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a wide
range of topics, including the phonological description of a wide range
of languages, issues in phonological theory, aspects of phonological
acquisition and implications of phonological change; anyone interested
in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological.  Full
papers will last around 30 minutes with around 10 minutes for questions,
and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a half
hours.

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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 on 'Phonology and Loanword
Adaptation'. This will feature invited speakers and conclude in an open
discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very
welcome. Abstracts on this theme are also certainly welcome.

SPECIAL SESSION SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
* Michael Kenstowicz (MIT, USA)
* Carole Paradis (Universite Laval, Canada)
* Moira Yip (University College London, UK)

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
**This is a summary - please consult the website for full details**

* There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything.
Abstracts should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email
(patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk) by 15th February 2004. 

* 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. 

* Please use one of these formats for your abstract: rtf, Word, pdf, or
plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, either
embed it in a pdf file, or use the SILdoulos93 font, which can be
downloaded for free from this site:
www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html. 

* 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
mid-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/12mfm.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 (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk, or phone  +44
(0)131 651 1383). 
* 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 (Durham) 
* John Harris (UCL)
* Larry Hyman (Berkeley) 
* Martin Kraemer (Ulster) 
* April McMahon (Sheffield)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
* Glyne Piggott (McGill) 
* Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice) 
* James M Scobbie (QMUC)
* Dan Silverman (Illinois, Edinburgh)
* Moira Yip (UCL)