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CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting

20-22 MAY 2010

Deadline for abstracts: 1st February 2010

Special session: 'Sociolinguistics, variation and phonology', featuring
 Andries Coetzee, William Labov, Marc van Oostendorp and Jane Stuart-Smith.

Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester, England. Organised through a collaboration
of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of
Manchester, and elsewhere.

Conference website: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/18mfm.html

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BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Eighteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
(18mfm). 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 (central in the UK, and with excellent international transport
connections). The meeting has become a key conference for phonologists from
all over 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 broad range
of topics, including the phonological description 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 for Friday afternoon, entitled
'Sociolinguistics, variation and phonology'. This will feature the invited
speakers listed below (in alphabetical order) and will conclude in an open
discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very
welcome.

* Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan)
* William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut & Leiden University)
* Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
**This mentions only a few details - please consult the website for full
information:http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/18mfm.html

* We are using the Linguist List's EasyAbstracts system for abstract
submission. Abstracts should be uploaded to the 18mfm's page on the
EasyAbstracts site by 1st February 2010:
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/18mfm

* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for
questions, and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a
half hours. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to indicate
whether you would be prepared to present your work (i) either as a talk or a
poster paper or (ii) only as a poster.

* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by
around the early March, and we will contact all those who have sent
abstracts as soon as the decisions have been made.

**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/18mfm.html

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ORGANISERS

Organising Committee:
The first named is the convenor and main organiser, If you have any queries
about the conference, feel free to get in touch (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk
).
* Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)

Advisory Board:
* Adam Albright (MIT)
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Bert Botma (Leiden)
* Mike Davenport (Durham)
* Stuart Davis (Indiana)
* Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail)
* Daniel L. Everett (Illinois State)
* Paul Foulkes (York)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* John Harris (UCL)
* Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois)
* Martin Krämer (Tromsø)
* Yuni Kim (Manchester)
* Nancy Kula (Essex)
* Ken Lodge (UEA)
* Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
* Glyne Piggott (McGill)
* Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice)
* James M. Scobbie (QMU)
* Daniel Silverman (San José State)
* Christian Uffmann (Sussex)
* Marilyn M. Vihman (York)
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