<ROA> Call: 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting

[Patrick Honeybone]

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 (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk) 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 (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk, 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)