<OT> 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting

25-27 MAY 2006

Deadline for abstracts: 20th February 2006

Special session: 'Fieldwork and phonological theory' (featuring Dan
Everett, Larry Hyman, Keren Rice)

Held in Manchester, UK; 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.

Conference website: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html

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BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
(14mfm). The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference, with an
international set of organisers; it is held in late May every year in
Manchester. The meeting has become 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 any phonological framework. 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 a special themed session has been organised, entitled 'Fieldwork
and phonological theory'. This will feature invited speakers and will
conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the
audience will be very welcome. Abstracts which attempt to deal overtly
with the issues involved with this (from any perspective) are also
certainly welcome.

SPECIAL SESSION SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
* Dan Everett (University of Manchester, UK)
* Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
* Keren Rice (University of Toronto, Canada)
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
**This is a summary - please consult the website for further important
details**
*www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.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 20th February
2006.

* Please send *two* copies of your abstract - one of these should be
anonymous and one should include your name, affiliation and email
address 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.

* 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 use one of these formats for your abstract: pdf, Word, 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 Doulos IPA93 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
around 20th 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/14mfm.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 (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk).
* Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
* Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (Manchester)
* Philip Carr (Montpellier-Paul Valery)
* Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail)

Advisory Board:
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Mike Davenport (Durham)
* Daniel L. Everett (Manchester)
* Paul Foulkes (York)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* John Harris (UCL)
* Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Manchester)
* Martin Krämer (Tromso)
* Ken Lodge (UEA)
* April McMahon (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)