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The program for the CUNY Conference on the Syllable has just been announced on LINGUIST List.

Fans of prosodic phonology rejoice: a new edition (with a new foreword/preface) of Nespor & Vogel’s classic Prosodic Phonology (1986) has just been published in the Studies in Generative Grammar series of Mouton de Gruyter.

[ Via LINGUIST List. ]

As announced on LINGUIST List, the fourth LASP will be held at the University of Texas, Austin in September 2008. Abstracts are due in February.

Phonology Thematic Issue 2009

Call for Papers - Relations between phonological models and experimental data (.pdf)

Over the past decades, experimental data have been used increasingly as evidence in phonological theorising. The success of the LabPhon conferences and the associated book series is evidence of this. However, most research in laboratory phonology eschews the kinds of formal grammatical models used in theoretical phonology. LabPhon papers tend to be neutral with respect to choice of grammatical model, or explicitly argue against a phonological grammar approach. On the other hand, research in theoretical phonology tends to rely solely on descriptive grammars or fieldwork as its empirical base. This thematic issue aims to build further bridges between theoretical phonology and laboratory phonology.

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For some reason I haven’t yet gotten in the habit of posting TOCs for issues of Phonology as they come out, but I suppose it’s never to late to start. The latest (online) issue (Vol. 24, Iss. 3) has just been announced, and here’s the TOC. (Note that it includes another review of Odden’s text.)

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