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[ Update: now announced on LINGUIST List. ]

Phonology, syntax and the lexicon: interdependence

14th Oral English Conference at Villetaneuse, Paris XIII

ALOES 2008: 4-5 April 2008
(the ALOES is the French association for oral English)

Last Call for Papers — abstract deadline: 10 February 2008

Guest plenary speaker: Heinz Giegerich, University of Edinburgh

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Almost forgot: the program for last weekend’s CUNY Conference on the Syllable includes a full list of speakers and titles, plus abstracts. Last year the CUNY Phonology Forum folks posted handouts, talk audio, and in some cases full papers; I wonder if they’ll do some of the same this year.

Speaking of Charles Reiss: he has an article co-authored with Frédéric Mailhot (”Computing Long-Distance Dependencies in Vowel Harmony“) in the first issue of the new open access journal Biolinguistics.

Bridget Samuels also contributed the first review article to the new journal (”On Evolutionary Phonology“), and happens to also be one of the invited speakers to NAPhC5.

Charles Reiss has just posted the call for papers for the Fifth North American Phonology Conference, to be held in Montréal May 9-11, 2008. Abstracts “up to 3 pages in length” are due March 1.

(Note that there are no particular formatting requirements for abstracts, and “[a]nonymity is not required”. The NAPhC folks used to accept up to full-blown paper drafts, but appear to have decided that was not such a great idea this time.)

Joe Pater, Chris Potts and I are happy to deliver version 1.2 of OT-Help, which we hope will be especially appreciated by users of Mac OS X.

OT-Help can now be launched by a simple double-click from either a Windows or a Mac machine. If you aren’t familiar with OT-Help, please read more here.

With technical issues of any kind, please contact Michael Becker.

OT-Help 1.2

Three recent book announcements found recently on LINGUIST List, of possible interest to phonoloblog readers:

• Inflectional Identity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 18)
  ed. by Asaf Bachrach and Andrew I. Nevins
  Oxford University Press, 2007. (LINGUIST List link)

• Freedom of Analysis? (Studies in Generative Grammar 95
  ed. by Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer
  Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. (LINGUIST List link)

• Laboratory Phonology 9 (Phonology and Phonetics 4-3)
  ed. by Jennifer S. Cole and José Ignacio Hualde
  Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. (LINGUIST List link)

This one I didn’t miss on LINGUIST List: the last call for papers for the Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody conference at Cornell. Deadline: January 18.

I don’t quite know how I missed it on LINGUIST List back in October, but anyway: WCCFL 27 will be held at UCLA May 16-18, and there will be a special session entitled “Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias?”

The deadline for electronic abstract submission is January 15, 5pm PST. Get on it.

[ Guest post by Sally Thomason, from Language Log; some links added by EB. ]

Don’t get me wrong: I love the idea of an international phonetic alphabet, and most of the IPA symbols are the same as the phonetic symbols used by linguists all over the world, including me. But some of them are different, and some of those differences make the IPA non-ideal for me, and I suspect for a lot of other fieldworkers out there too. Some of my reasons are fairly trivial, but one of them is a serious problem. I’ll save that one for last.

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